"Mother structure," "child structure" Finding one's own niche in a tradition of literati landscape painting that stretches back thousands of years is a challenge that all modern practitioners of the art must face. Chou's own method of self-training was to take masters with a spirit similar to his own as models.
「母體」與「子體」如何在傳承千年的文人山水畫界自成一格，是每位現代創作者必經的難關，周澄自我鞭策的方法是，先找到與自己本性相近的心儀名家作為模仿對象，即所謂的「母體」，像他相當喜愛「張遷碑」方整、穩重的隸書，便下工夫臨摹，務求得其神髓。