Mr. Maliang was born into a poor family in Xi'atilde;an in 1958, and since the childhood, he has been an ambitious and fierce lover of the art of calligraphy and wash-drawing. In scores of years, Mr. Maliang has assumed multiple social roles, and sampled various taste of life. He was once a student, a peasant, a soldier, a worker and a business man, to cite his own jocular remarks, he has been in a motley rackets. Be that as it may, Mr. Maliang never put down his painting brush for a single day. The rich life experiences enabled his unique comprehension and empathy of the art of calligraphy and wash-drawing, which in turn established his own style. In Maliang's works, one can find no accomplished gentlemen or fair ladies, nor luxury or grandeur, but rather numerous faces of ordinary people, with flowing lines encapsulating bitterness and resilience, and tones penetrated with grimness and wanness. Fish angling, pines admiring, chess playing and spirits sipping are the immortal themes of his works. Each piece was appended with one article of Mr. Maliang, which is laconic and of a far-flung moral. The drawing and lettering are complementary to each other and compelling as a whole, still with an attitude.
    At present, Mr. Maliang is the head of Changan Wash-drawing Institute, a guest painter of Xi'an Wash-drawing Institute, an academician of North-west Calligraphy and Wash-drawing academy, a member of both Korean Association of Artists and Korean Association of Calligraphists, etc. His works have been exhibited on various occasions, and indexed in a number of painting albums, and many of them were collected by associations, corporations, libraries, papers and periodicals, and so on. Covered with glory, yet he remains in a bland and philosophical mind, which could better be borne out in his own words, that “only those who can slake the thirst of their hearts with drawings can go through life in a happy-go-lucky fashion.”