Zhang Linhai spent all his youth at Shexian County in Hebei Province. Situated at the east foot of Taihang Mountain, Shexian County is under jurisdiction of Hebei Province and is geographically located at the junction of three provinces, namely Shanxi, Hebei and Henan provinces. During the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping strategically carried out a significant campaign at Taihang Mountain and 129 Division of the Eighth Route Army fought hard with the Japanese army, which made Shexian County well known in history. However, this significant campaign has never been emphasized by the artist on his creation. The stone houses scattered and piled up at the village in Shexian County have repeatedly appeared in Zhang Linhai's works and these stone houses has some inextricably linked with an image of baldish boy, which reflects inseparably the life experience of the artist during his youth. On the other hand, the artist adopts these two closely linked elements in his painting with repeated images and surrealistic style, forming the characteristics of Zhang Linhai's painting and spiritual imagery of the artist. Whether the frail baldish boy or dark clouds spread all over with a falling sky, Zhang Linhai's works are full of depression and sadness. Among the creative community of Chinese contemporary artists, the artist who can make the engraving with a background is unconventional powerful in creation. Though Zhang Linhai's paintings are plain and even, they have great sense of space, which is derived from the artist's creative foundation in the engraving.