The invention provides automatic needle-shaped tea carding equipment and method. The automatic needle-shaped tea carding equipment comprises an elevator, a material feeding trolley, a vibration carding machine and a control system, wherein the material feeding trolley comprises a material feeding device and a material conveying device which are arranged up and down; a feeding hole communicated with the material conveying device is formed in the bottom of the material feeding device; the material feeding device and the material conveying device are internally provided with leaf homogenization devices; the material feeding device is provided with a weighing sensor; the material feeding trolley is arranged on rails above the leaf homogenization devices and can move back and forth along the rails; the elevator is arranged at one end of the vibration carding machine; and the elevator, the material feeding trolley and the vibration carding machine are connected with the control system. According to the automatic needle-shaped tea carding equipment and method, provided by the invention, by uniformly controlling carding materials and automatic parameters to carry out carding, automatic, continuous and standard work of needle-shaped tea is realized; and the quality of products is guaranteed, the production efficiency is improved, and the dependence on skills of workers by carding work is reduced.