Hou Chun-ming's creation throughout these years were inspired not only by folk custom, ancient books (like In Search of Gods, Pleasure Pictures), some of them (like "The Wedding of the Hou Family") were also inspired by collaborating with avant-garde theatres. "Fertile Man" series were created by closely interacting with other contemporary artists.

It has been a Chinese tradition to keep certain distance with those who came from the same generation as you; it is to prevent them from affecting or making influences on you and your works, also to prevent your work from being plagiarized. But Hou thinks that working together with them might bring out more sparks, and may advance each other.

Hou not only held a study group with other artists, he also planned a group composition named "Fertile Man". With Chen Yi-lang, Chang Li-yeh, they developed their way to create images by faxing each other their own images, one took the other two's images as sources of his creation, developed a series of work, and further enriches, transforms one's creative vocabularies through bold plagiarizing.