Du Dakai was born in 1943 in Yexian County, Henan Province. In 1978, he was admitted to the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. He studied decorative painting under the guidance of Mr. Zhu Danian and Mr. Yuan Yunfu. He has been teaching since his graduation. Now he is a member of China Artists Association, vice chairman of Beijing Artists Association and professor of Fine Arts College of Tsinghua University. His works have participated in many national art exhibitions and won prizes or been collected. His representative works include the heavy-coloured murals Quyuan Jiuge, Long Five Thousand Years, and the high-temperature glazed pottery murals Ideal Will Pursuit. He has created and published more than 30 kinds of comic strips with different themes and styles, such as Lu Ban Xueyi, Laoshan Taoist priest, Nuwa Butian and Yu Gong Yishan.