No matter it was Wu Shi or his servant who first created a stoneware teapot that fit the taste of the scholar-officials, the Wu family had played a significant role in the transformation of tea wares occurred in the early-16th century. This transformation not only occurred within the Wu family but also corresponded with the trend of tea consumption in Chinese society. Furthermore, it guided the practice of tea drinking among the elite class to a new direction and generated a new discourse of aesthetic principles based on this newly created product. As mentioned before, Wu Lun and his scholar-official friends were still fascinated with the Tang-style tea drinking. This fascination, in Clunas’s opinion, was a phenomenon that the elite’s
