Yao Xiaodong, formerly known as Xiaodong, with the courtesy name Yu, pen names: Tianye, Yizhi, and Mingshan Wild History, and the names of his painting studios: Sangting Yiguan and Difeitang, so he is also often assigned to Sangting Yixue. You are not the master of the hall. Born in 1969 in Haining, Zhejiang Province. In 1986, he participated in a two-month summer class held by the Haining Cultural Center to learn sketching and color. The teachers were Liu Zheng and Wang Yibo, graduate students of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. From 1991, he successively studied with Wu Jingchu, Jiang Baolin's two mentors studied freehand Chinese painting of flowers and birds. During this period, he visited Mr. Lu Bingren in his hometown to study calligraphy and seal script. In 1995, he held his first solo exhibition at Zhang Zongxiang Memorial Hall in Haining. In 2001, he was specially recruited to Puhua Art Museum and Jiaxing Painting Academy as a full-time painter. , joined the Chinese Artists Association in 2003, served as a distinguished painter of the Zhejiang Painting Academy in 2004, and joined the Democratic National Construction Association in the same year. Currently, he is a full-time painter of the Zhejiang Painting Academy; a national second-level artist; a member of the Chinese Artists Association; a painter of the Central Painting Academy of the Democratic National Construction Association; director and art director of the Zhejiang Provincial Base Creation Research Office of the Chinese Art Creation Research Base of the Art Service Center of the Ministry of Culture.