Jiang Hanting (1903-1963) was from Changshu in Jiangsu province, and his original name was Di. When he was sixteen years old, he learned to paint birds and flowers from Tao Songxi and soon afterward started selling paintings for a living. After the People's Republic was established, he became a painter in the China Art Academy. Premier Zhou Enlai invited him to make a large painting of plum blossoms for the Great Hall of the People in 1960.

Jiang Hanting, whose pen name is Jiang Hong, whose courtesy name is Shangyu, whose name is Hanting layman, is a native of Changshu, Jiangsu.

At the age of 16, he learned flower and bird painting from Tao Songxi, devoted himself to the creation of Chinese painting, and taught apprentices to pass on the arts. He used to be a painter at the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy and a teacher in the Chinese Painting Department of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.