In the 1920s, Zhu went to Japan and brought back to China the Bauhaus concepts and ideas of practical art.

[1] Zhu Shijie studied traditional Chinese paintings, including flower, bird, and landscape, under Yan Chunsheng and Fan Shaoyun in 1912.

They attempted to modernise Chinese art education by introducing western concepts and methods in their school.

While in Europe, Yan assembled a collection of plaster casts of famous European sculptures, which totaled as many as 500 pieces, which he shipped home to be used at the Academy.

9 works including "Jing Gangshan Mountain" and "Small Wharf at Dongting Lake" are part of the collection of the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.