Fang Ting
Senior proctor — cross-category
Fang Ting joined the Teamotea credentialing board in 2019 after fourteen years of cupping-room practice spanning three of the six Chinese tea categories. She trained initially at the Xinyang Tea Vocational School in southern Henan, where she completed the national tea-evaluator programme under Prof. Liu Zhongwen in 2011, and was certified to GB/T 23776–2018 (Methodology for Sensory Evaluation of Tea) the following year. Her early years were spent on the *Xìnyáng Máojiān* (信阳毛尖) spring harvest panels — work that established her reputation for disciplined green-tea evaluation before she broadened into oolong and dark-tea classes. Within the academy she serves as senior proctor for cross-category cupping, the role responsible for ensuring that scoring rubrics remain consistent when a Specialist-tier candidate is examined on more than one category in a single sitting. She does not currently chair a named exam panel, but sits on the moderation committee that reviews appealed scores at Foundation and Specialist level and signs off on the annual recalibration of the academy's reference sample library. Fang Ting's specialist competence covers *wūlóng* (乌龙), *lǜ chá* (绿茶) and *shēng pǔ'ěr* (生普洱), with a secondary research interest in the lesser-documented oolongs of Henan's southern belt — a regional focus she has published on through the Teamotea editorial channel at thetea.app and contributed reference samples for at puerh.app. She is one of two proctors authorised by the board to verify *Mí Lán Xiāng* (蜜兰香) Phoenix oolong submissions for the Specialist tier, working from the cultivar reference set maintained in Kunming. Her pedagogical work sits adjacent to, but distinct from, her credentialing duties. She lectures occasionally at tea.school on cross-category sensory vocabulary and has supervised three Master-tier thesis candidates since 2022, two of whom passed at first submission. Within the wider organization she is also listed as a technical adviser for trade-side cupping at tea.services, where her signature appears on lot-level evaluation reports. Fang Ting holds the academy's Senior Proctor designation (issued 2021, renewed 2024) and is required, like all senior proctors, to re-sit the calibration battery every eighteen months. Her current calibration cycle expires in October 2026. She works primarily from the Zhengzhou examination centre and travels to Kunming twice yearly for the spring and autumn moderation sessions.
Specialties
- *wūlóng* (乌龙)
- *lǜ chá* (绿茶)
- *shēng pǔ'ěr* (生普洱)
- Henan regional teas
- cross-category cupping
Fang Ting joined the Teamotea credentialing board in 2019 after fourteen years of cupping-room practice spanning three of the six Chinese tea categories. She trained initially at the Xinyang Tea Vocational School in southern Henan, where she completed the national tea-evaluator programme under Prof. Liu Zhongwen in 2011, and was certified to GB/T 23776–2018 (Methodology for Sensory Evaluation of Tea) the following year. Her early years were spent on the Xìnyáng Máojiān (信阳毛尖) spring harvest panels — work that established her reputation for disciplined green-tea evaluation before she broadened into oolong and dark-tea classes.
Within the academy she serves as senior proctor for cross-category cupping, the role responsible for ensuring that scoring rubrics remain consistent when a Specialist-tier candidate is examined on more than one category in a single sitting. She does not currently chair a named exam panel, but sits on the moderation committee that reviews appealed scores at Foundation and Specialist level and signs off on the annual recalibration of the academy’s reference sample library.
Fang Ting’s specialist competence covers wūlóng (乌龙), lǜ chá (绿茶) and shēng pǔ’ěr (生普洱), with a secondary research interest in the lesser-documented oolongs of Henan’s southern belt — a regional focus she has published on through the Teamotea editorial channel at thetea.app and contributed reference samples for at puerh.app. She is one of two proctors authorised by the board to verify Mí Lán Xiāng (蜜兰香) Phoenix oolong submissions for the Specialist tier, working from the cultivar reference set maintained in Kunming.
Her pedagogical work sits adjacent to, but distinct from, her credentialing duties. She lectures occasionally at tea.school on cross-category sensory vocabulary and has supervised three Master-tier thesis candidates since 2022, two of whom passed at first submission. Within the wider organization she is also listed as a technical adviser for trade-side cupping at tea.services, where her signature appears on lot-level evaluation reports.
Fang Ting holds the academy’s Senior Proctor designation (issued 2021, renewed 2024) and is required, like all senior proctors, to re-sit the calibration battery every eighteen months. Her current calibration cycle expires in October 2026. She works primarily from the Zhengzhou examination centre and travels to Kunming twice yearly for the spring and autumn moderation sessions.