Luo Zhongli was born in 1948 in Chongqing. He graduated from the middle school affiliated to Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts in 1968 and worked in the Daba Mountains for 10 years. In 1978, he enrolled in the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts. After his graduation in 1982, he stayed at the university as a professor but left after a year to continue his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in Belgium in 1983. After finishing his studies, he returned to teach at Sichuan Fine Art Institute, serving as the Dean from 1998 to 2015. 


Spring Silkworms was created at the same time as his celebrated work Father. At In fact, the painting also serves as the pendant picture to Father as noted by the artist: “Spring Silkworms, otherwise known as Mother, depicts an old woman in the countryside holding a bamboo sieve of spring silkworms and carefully nursing them. With a head of white hair and arms covered in swollen blue veins, the old woman revels in her hard work.”