The brushwork for mountain rock is a very important category for Chinese traditional landscape paintings. It has five 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.

Zhou Chunya came back from his further education of 3 years in Germany in 1989. Afterward he began to combine the spirits of traditional Chinese landscape paintings with western painting skills to create a series of artworks featuring traditional Chinese connotations in the 1990s. His unique application of force and painting skills, combined with his bold application of colors make his paintings stunningly unique in representing traditional landscape in a new way. The big difference in presentation and coloring seems to apply a tier of addition to the traditional landscape, implying the obscure matter of nature.

Under the influences of Germany Expressionism, Zhou Chunya expresses his feelings and emotions with colors and shapes. Landscape and everything come out naturally from his casual and elegant moves of hands. It is because he has combined the spirit of traditional Chinese landscape paintings with western painting skills to break through the limits of traditional representation of colors, so as to extend the expression of strong emotions and bringing people into a supernatural dreamland that goes beyond cultures and history.