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Feng Zhonglian (September 1918 - May 2001), a famous female painter and ancient painting copyist, was born in Shunde, Guangdong, in Tianjin in 1918. She was the wife and favorite student of Mr. Chen Shaomei, a giant of modern Chinese traditional painting.

In 1941, he became Chen Shaomei's apprentice and they later married. In 1954, he started working at Rongbaozhai and in October 1972, he was transferred to the Palace Museum.

Feng Zhonglian inherited Chen Shaomei's technique and painted landscapes and figures. Her "Spring in the South of the Yangtze River" and "Sound of Waves" were exhibited in the first and second national art exhibitions and received rave reviews. Just when her Chinese painting creation was showing her talent, she resolutely put down her brush. For the sake of the Chinese painting cause of the motherland, she has been copying ancient paintings in obscurity for nearly 30 years. The ancient painting copying cause of New China started from Rongbaozhai, and Feng Zhonglian was the pioneer of this cause. In 1953, Feng Zhonglian was invited by Rongbaozhai to copy "Song Zhao Ji's Copy of Tang Zhang Xuan's Lady Guoguo Outing in Spring" at the Liaoning Museum. At the beginning, she encountered the color matching. After continuous experiments, it seemed that the color had been adjusted to be consistent with the original painting, but it was still not good when it was painted. After careful study, she found that the color of the ancient painting had been absorbed into the silk, and the color of the new copy floated on the surface, which caused a gap. She improved her painting method and overcame this difficulty after several explorations and practices. It was from here that Feng Zhonglian developed a bond with copying, devoting almost her entire artistic life to it. In 1954, she officially started working at Rongbaozhai, and copied "Ten Thousand Pines and Greenery" and "Song Dynasty Painting Pages" in succession, and sketched "White Horse Galloping Like the Wind" by Qiu Ying of the Ming Dynasty, "Landscape" by Lan Ying, and works by some modern painters.