Xuan Chengbang, a native of Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1965. In the same year, he was sent to work in the cultural department of Zhanjiang City to engage in mass art work. In 1981, he was transferred to the Department of Fine Arts Education of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to teach. In his early years, he mainly studied oil painting, and later he transferred his main energy to the research, practice and teaching of watercolor painting.