In 1520, Wu Shi built the Hall of Zhu’e to celebrate his father’s eightieth birthday. This hall not only functioned as a tea-tasting space, but also an art gallery for present family’s painting collection and a museum for displaying the Yixing stoneware teapots. After the death of Wu Shi in 1545, the ownership of this hall has been transferred to the decedents of Wu Jing, who was the brother of Wu Lun. Fortunately, the good taste of tea within the Wu family remained. Almost a century after Wu Shi’s death, the great-grandson of Wu Jing, Wu Honghua (1608-1646), who received his Juren degree in 1639, hold a reception for a visitor named Zhou Gaoqi and some other scholar-officials friends at the end of the Chongzhen’s reign. Zhou’s article entitled
