He was thus acclaimed as a child prodigy and was named "Hsin Ma Shih Tseng." "Hsin" means new and Ma Shih-tseng was a great Cantonese opera actor in an earlier generation.
粵劇前輩覺得他是可造之材，幫他取了個藝名「新馬師曾」，希望他再創上一代粵劇名伶馬師曾的輝煌成就。