In 1949, he joined the army and was admitted to the Military and Political University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. After graduation, he stayed in the school as a propaganda officer and began to engage in cultural and artistic work.
In 1959, he began to engage in military art professional creation in the Guangzhou Military Region. His works have been exhibited in the military and national art exhibitions. The main paintings during this period include the prints "Island Primary School", "Deep in the Coconut Grove", " "Copper Wall and Iron Wall" Chinese painting "Friends Coming from Afar", "Chairman Mao Sends His Son to Farm", oil painting "Vietnam-China".
In 1973, the oil painting "Vietnam-China" was selected for the National Art Exhibition. In April 1973, the People's Fine Arts Publishing House selected and published a single page for national public distribution.
In 1976, he was transferred to the General Political Department to be responsible for the leadership of the army's art and calligraphy organizations.
1977/Responsible for organizing a national art exhibition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which was exhibited at the National Art Museum of China for two months.
1978/ Along with the writer Liu Baiyu, the painters Guan Shanyue and Li Xiongcai traveled to Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Jiayuguan, Urumqi, Ili, Kashgar and other places for collecting works.
In 1979/I went to the front line of Yunnan with the playwright Hu Ke to visit the heroic officers and soldiers in Kaiyuan, Mengzi, Hekou and other places, and created a large number of battlefield sketches, which lasted more than two months.
In 1979/Responsible for organizing the national "Self-Defense, Counterattack and Defending the Frontier Art Exhibition" at the National Art Museum of China, with more than 500 painters participating.
1979/Participated in the Fourth National Literary Congress.
1979/Attended the Third National Beauty Congress and was elected as the executive director of the Chinese Artists Association.
1981/Participated in the first founding meeting of the National Calligraphers Association and was elected as the executive director. (He was elected as the executive director for three consecutive terms in 1985 and 1991 and participated in various works of the Calligraphy Association)
In 1984/CCTV recorded and broadcast "Xia Xiangping's Special Lecture on Official Script".
1985/Participated in the second session of the National Calligraphers Association Council and was elected as the executive director.
1986/Served as a member of the Creation Review Committee of the China Calligraphy Association and participated in the exhibition review work.
1986/Written the inscription "Monument to the Tenth Anniversary of the Tangshan Earthquake Resistance" and engraved the stone on it and erected it in the central square of Tangshan.
1986/Six-person calligraphy joint exhibition in Weifang, Shandong. (Xia Xiangping, Liu Yi, Xu Benyi, Xiong Boqi, Zhu Shouyou, Nie Chengwen)
1987/Six Paintings and Calligraphy Exhibition from Beijing at Shenzhen Art Museum. (Xia Xiangping, Li Duo, Li Lisheng, Zhang Daoxing, Li Baolin, Yu Minghai)
In 1987/as the leader of the accompanying delegation of the Chinese Calligraphy Association, he led the fifth training group of the Japanese Calligraphy Association to inspect and study at Shimen in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province He carved stones on cliffs in the Han Dynasty and issued completion certificates to all Japanese calligraphers of the Japanese Calligraphy Training Group on behalf of the Chinese Calligraphy Association.
In 1989, he was appointed as an overseas reviewer of the Singapore Chinese Calligraphers Association.
In 1989, he was hired as a professor at the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Correspondence University, and filmed and recorded the correspondence university teaching CD.
1990/Published a selection of aphorisms in four-body calligraphy. (Co-authored with Shen Peng, Ouyang Zhongshi, etc.)
1991/Participated in the third session of the National Council of Calligraphers Association and continued to be elected as the executive director.
In 1991/"Contemporary Calligraphy Master's Dictionary" was published, containing more than 3,000 characters of Xia Xiangping's official script.
1992/The full text of Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" of more than 2,500 words was written in official script. It is carved on all sides on a five-meter-high boulder. This stele is erected in Qu Yuan's Forest of Steles on the banks of the Miluo River in Hunan; it is the centerpiece of the entire forest of steles. Main monument.
In 1993, he was hired as a professor at the Training Center of the Chinese Calligraphy Association.
1994/Invited to participate in Shaoxing Lanting Calligraphy Art Festival.
In 1994/"Calligraphy Character Sea" was published, which included more than 400 characters of Xia Xiangping's official script.
1994/Invited to participate in Xi'an International Calligraphy Festival.
1996/Participated in the Sixth National Literary Congress.
1996/Invited to participate in the filming of "TV Series on Famous Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Masters".
In 1997/In response to the call of the central government, he actively participated in the Wanli style collection activities, went deep into many grassroots counties and cities in Jiangsu Province, and created a large number of artistic works for the grassroots masses.
In 1997, Xia Xiangping's special collection - "Grasp the Laws and Strengthen Personality" - was published on the CD-ROM series of "Yi Hai Zong Heng".
In 1998/I was invited to write a long couplet for the Tambu Temple of the Royal Palace of Thailand.
In 1999, "Famous Poems and Good Sentences - Selected Calligraphy Works of Xia Xiangping" was published by Beijing Sport University Press.
2000/Hunan TV filmed the video of "Searching for Dreams in the Sea of ??Ink - Special Collection of Xia Xiangping".
2000/CCTV filmed the video of "The Fragrance of Calligraphy and Ink - Special Collection of Xia Xiangping".
In 2001/"Xia Xiangping's Calligraphy on Qu Yuan's Li Sao Stele" was published by the "Hong Kong" China Calligraphy Publishing House and a premiere ceremony was held.
2001/Won the Art Honor Award of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.
2001/Compiled the teaching material "Ode to the Stone Gate" - "Ode to the Stone Gate" for the Chinese Calligraphers Association Training Center.
2002/"Xia Xiangping's Book on Qu Yuan's Li Sao Monument" was published by Chinese Publishing House.
In 2003/CCTV filmed the video of "Golden Years - Special Collection of Xia Xiangping".
2006/Written the large-scale inscription "Chaoyang Pavilion Ode" and erected it in Chaoyang Pavilion, Shouyang County, Shanxi Province, and published it by China Literature and History Publishing House.
2008/The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Calligraphy Art Creation Institute was established and he was appointed as the vice president.
In 2009/China Federation of Literary and Art Circles awarded him the honorary certificate and medal for “Sixty Years of Engagement in New China’s Literary and Art Work”.
2010/"Xia Xiangping's Book of Zhou Dunyi's Official Book" was published by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House.