Yang San-lang is a founding member of the Taiyang Artist Association, a group of famous early Taiwanese artists who made direct and lasting contributions to the development of the arts in Taiwan. He left home in his youth, travelling to Japan, where he entered the Kansai Art Institute, and then on to Europe for further studies, eventually entering the Autumn Salon in France. When Kuomintang Party Chairman Lien Chan travelled to Mainland China for the historic ice-breaking visit, he presented Chinese President Hu Jintao with Yang's painting of the Yeliu Rock Formations. We can see his important position in art history. Yang excels at depicting seascapes.