Professor Xing-Ping Zeng was born in Yu-Li, Hualien, Taiwan and graduated from the Chinese Culture University with the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts. He renounced the opportunity for further study in.Japan and returned to Yu-Li, with the aspiration to remunerate his hometown and devoting himself to fundamental education of fine arts.
Zeng brought up numerous arts talents in Yu-Li /eastern region of Taiwan, and various students of his were admitted to Departments of Fine Arts of several universities, making it to local newspaper headlines and an atmosphere to learn fine arts. Zeng at the same year was accepted by the Graduate School of Fine Arts of the Chinese Culture Unviersity, but he chose to deferred his study to next year, for the purpose of continuing teaching. Not surprisingly, the number of his students admitted to universities doubled the number of previous year , reflecting his passion for teaching.
After graduating from the Chinese Culture University, Zeng taught at the National Taitung University, on subjects of Watercolor , Sketch, Introduction to Fine Arts, and Teaching Methods and Materials of Arts. Tzeng stresses the sketch ability within students, as he never forgot what his teacher Mei-Shu Li once said: "Basics is everything to learning paintings, and sketch and theory are the basic fundamentals to paintings."