Yang Yitang (1938) was born in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University in 1960 and was trained by famous painters such as Fu Baoshi, Chen Zhifo, and Ya Ming. His works have been selected for many domestic and foreign exhibitions and won the Shanghai Art Museum, the National Art Museum of China Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition Gold Medal, and the China Cup Excellent Works Award of the Chinese Artists Association.