Zhang Yuan's "Red Lotus Wetland" series of paintings is a memory sketch of the visit to the shores of Weishan Lake in Shandong Province at the end of October 2007. Weishan Lake wetland is majestic with thousands of miles of floating lotus. The artist describes the trip as a very emotional experience; "The boat ride in the lake was full of emotions! Although the lotus in late autumn has lost the beauty of summer, it has a rich context of association and poetry.". The lotus has become a cultural symbol of China because of its artistic qualities and humanistic atmosphere. While celebrating the sacred and pure spirit of the lotus, Zhang Yuan also practiced the possibilities of the expressive power of the relationship between point, line, and multiple languages in painting. After creating a set of "Red River Wetland" mixed media paintings in Weishan Lake, he still had strong feelings and memories and started a new series of "Memory of Red River Wetland" paintings. This kind of memory sketching interest, association, and rich painting language relationship transformation is challenging for the painter. Zhang Yuan likes this kind of humanistic theme and the "materialistic painting" found in the picture. The reorganization of the picture's linguistic order is realized in the linguistic relationship's transformation of painting, reflecting the spirit of the times in the evolution of a painting. Painting is not a literary narrative or an ideological illustration, not a way to tell a story, explain the concept's visualization, or educate someone. Painting is a visual aesthetic pleasure, a fun game of color and material sense, a pleasure conveyed by a sharp, delicate, rich color sense with exquisite skills, and a spiritual appeal of poetic and pictorial association.