One Man’s Cultural Revolution– the Battle between Dragon and Tiger in the Mountains reveals the artist’s conversation with the self about how one should confront the tradition, inherit the tradition, and reform the tradition. He uses “coiled dragon and oil tree” as a metaphor to symbolize that if we absorb the tradition well, the tree can shelter us from the burning sun, but if we stubbornly preserve the tradition, the old tree will turn into a venomous dragon which traps artists inside the palace. Therefore, it is the artist’s primary concern to transcend himself from the red-wall battle between the dragon and the tiger.