Zou Ya was born in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. He was committed to promoting the new woodcut movement led by Mr. Lu Xun in Shanghai in his youth . In 1938, he studied in Lu Xun Arts College in Yan'an and then went to Shanxi and other revolutionary base areas to promote revolutionary propaganda work. After the founding of new China, he worked as deputy editor and vice president of People's Fine Arts Publishing House. In 1973, he was appointed vice president ofBeijing Fine Art Academy. In 1974, he experienced life in Yangquan Coal Mine, unfortunately, killed by accident. Zou Ya was a versatile artist and editor. In the brutal war environment, with high revolutionary enthusiasm and responsible sense of history, he created a large number of woodcut works made soldiers and civilians union closely in Japanese Aggression Resistance War and People's Liberation War. These creative works had lofty aesthetic character because they connected the feelings and fate of the people, expressed their pursuit of justice, democracy and liberation with simple language and artistic forms. These works became valuable historical records of people's revolution. Zou Ya was committed to exploring landscape painting and learned vigorous painting from Huang Binhong. He combined strong line, spatial level, especially real-life fun into his creations, so that his landscape painting won the character of modern aesthetic. His method of "Crumpled Paper Painting," "Search Strange Mountain To Scratch" indicated that he was not confined in rule but pursuit of artistic creation.