Recently the apprentice taking ceremony of "Chinese tea master" Xiao Shiying has been held at West Yunnan University of Applied Sciences. 14 tea workers became his apprentices.
Xiao is one of the four "Chinese tea masters" selected at the 15th China Pu'er Tea Festival. Hailed as the "father of Yunnan's clonal Pu'er tea varieties", he has cultivated seven good varieties of Pu'er tea, grown ten million-mu of quality tea, benefited numberless tea growers and consumers, and steadily improved the tea quality of Yunnan.