Mo Xiong was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu in 1960. In 1986, he graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts with a bachelor's degree and stayed on to teach there. Now a member of the China Artists Association. He is a master of Western painting with free and easy expressive landscape painting and still life painting. Whether it is landscapes, strange stones, gardens, flowers, or porcelain vases, all of his paintings show a combination of traditional Chinese painting symbols, forms, meanings and oil painting materials and tools. He is one of the outstanding contemporary representatives who are good at casting the Chinese spirit in Western painting. In 2007, Premier Wen Jiabao added the finishing touch to his work "Golden Rooster". In 2008, Li Lanqing, the former vice premier of the State Council, composed music for his traditional Chinese painting "Sea of ​​Flowers". He is one of the most recognised painters in contemporary China.