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Hua Junwu (1915-2010) is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. A famous Chinese art activist and cartoonist. He began to publish cartoon works when he was in middle school. In 1938, he worked as a research institute and teacher in Lu Xun Art College from Shanghai to Yan'an. He participated in the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium and opened the Satirical Painting Exhibition with Zhang Pei. Mao Zedong met and talked with him after watching it. After arriving in Beijing in 1949, he was successively the director of the Literature and Art Department of the People's Daily, the Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the Chinese Artists Association, the head of the Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, and the chairman of the Engineering and Art Group of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. In his early years, Hua Junwu was good at political current affairs cartoons that were full of fighting spirit and played a great role in propaganda and encouragement in the revolutionary war. In the latter period, satire was the main theme, which bitterly satirized all kinds of ugly and backward phenomena in society - ingenious conception, three-point penetration, full of sense of humor. His representative works include Overtired Disease, Meat and Bone Leading Dog and Trees Planted in 1939. He has published 24 volumes, including Selected Cartoons of Hua Junwu, Cartoons of Hua Junwu and How I Want to Draw Cartoons, as well as satirical poems and literary illustrations.