Zhao Wanbi (1904-1994), a native of Nanchong County, Sichuan Province, loved art since childhood, entered the art class of Nanchong Old Middle School sponsored by Mr. Zhang Lan at the age of sixteen, and entered The Xinhua University of the Arts in Shanghai in 1927, under the careful guidance of Pan Tianshou and Zhu Wenyun. After returning to Sichuan, he was a professor in the Art Department of Chengdu National Normal University and a private american professor in Sichuan. In 1938, he founded the private Min Yunyi in Sichuan as the full-time principal until liberation. Later, he was a member of the Fifth Committee of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a librarian of the Sichuan Provincial Research Museum of Culture and History.
