He is good at China's flower-and-bird and figure painting, and has great attainments in calligraphy, seal cutting, poetry and painting history. In the early 1960s, he was organized and decided to be a graduate student and secretary of Pan Tianshou, a master of Chinese painting, as well as a disciple and private secretary, and was well received by others. Later, he learned from others, accepted everything and formed his own face. The painting style is broad, fresh and meaningful, concise with a pen, full of poetry, and there is a saying that "painting and printing poetry and books are integrated into a furnace, full of philosophical beauty and capital". Representative works: Fang Zhimin Martyr Statue, Deed of Burning Land (collected by the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History), Home Soldiers, Autumn High Map, Dragon God Map, Battlefield Yellow Flower, Lian Bi Pure Plant, Xiling Wind Lotus, Carving Fierce Exhibition, etc. Published works: China Flower-and-Bird Painting Foundation, Ye Shangqing's Painting Collection, Ye Shangqing's Painting Collection, Freehand Flower-and-Bird Painting Manual, China Flower-and-Bird Painting Tutorial, Ye Shangqing's Poetry Draft, Five Lectures of China Flower-and-Bird Painting Foundation (broadcast by CCTV), Qiuci Pavilion Poetry Talk (near 1500).
At present, he is a member of China Artists Association, Xiling Printing Society, a professor of China Academy of Fine Arts, an executive director of China Painters Association, a lifelong executive director of China Fine Arts Society, a special art consultant of Singapore Moran Society, honorary president of China National Studies Research Association, vice president of Zhejiang Painting and Calligraphy Society of the New Fourth Army, and president of Zhejiang Southern Painting and Calligraphy Society of the New Fourth Army, and has been listed in the Who's Who of the World (one of the 500 outstanding people in the world) of Cambridge International Celebrity Biography Center.
Calligraphy and painting works have participated in many exhibitions at home and abroad, and some of them have been collected by national museums and embassies at home and abroad; Some have been published in many newspapers at home and abroad; Some people have won gold medals in domestic and international competitions. In recent years, he has been invited to Canada, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, France, Britain, Portugal and other countries to hold solo exhibitions, inspections and lectures, which has been highly praised. Vancouver, Canada's "Big Man Bulletin" commented: "The painting style is novel, strange, touching and charming." The Singapore Evening News commented: "Ye Shangqing's paintings exude poetry, music and a lofty beauty."
His artistic achievements have been included in more than 20 dictionaries such as China Fine Arts Yearbook.