Chou Ying absorbed the aesthetic taste of literati and painters all his life, but he always maintained his own personal style and created a new model of green landscape. Because of his extensive contacts with literati, his landscape paintings are mostly combined with people's activities, showing the themes of literati's leisure life, such as reading, playing the piano, enjoying spring and discussing paintings, which are similar to the themes shown in the paintings of gardens, pavilions and other themes that Wu Pai painters were keen to show at that time.
Chou Ying's painting style is the most diverse in Ming Sijia, especially the landscapes and figures, which is related to his identity and experience as a professional painter. As a master of copying ancient paintings, he visited Jiaxing's great collectors for a long time, copied ancient paintings for a project, and finally reached the superb artistic level of "copying Tang and Song paintings". Cheung Chau collector Chen Guan (Huai Yun) is also an important patron of Chou Ying, and Chou Ying spent a long time painting in his home in his later years. Peng nian wrote in the postscript of Guan Gong Tu that Chen Guan was "kind to the ten continents, and the pavilion was easy to be cold and hot, and did not push each other." Taoyuan Wonderland was made by Chou Ying for Chen Guan, who collected and printed it. Judging from the creative style, it should be Chou Ying's later works.