The brushwork for mountain rock is a very important category for painting landscapes in ancient time. It has ive approaches in respect to tick, crimple, rub, dye and dot. The form and the structure of mountain rock decide the expression of the painting methods, and in turn, different styles and genres are formed. The historical observation of natural phenomena by ancient painters has reined a set of writing symbols, depicting the traditional Chinese rocks in a profound miracle. Following similar lifestyle of ancient scholars, Zhou Chunya likes to spend some time drinking tea, listening to zither, appreciating ancient rhyme, discussing art and life. Zhou Chunya has a desire to use merely a few strokes to depict the complex life forcibly in a "natural" basic way. "Mountain Rocks" created in 1998 is composed of rounded and awkward lines, showing the uniqueness of mountain rocks in China - empty and full. In Zhou Chunya's painting, the emptiness of mountain rocks is formed by its own shape, but its own shape is entirely dominated by the artist's mood, which affects the whole picture. Zhou Chunya's mountain rocks have become a metaphor, which implies the mountain rocks developed from the tradition, and manifested on the canvas by the media (oil paints) completely unrelated to Chinese tradition. This has relected two aspects of the artist's personality: the past and the present, the East and the West, the "paleness" and the strong, between struggle and rebirth.