Ordered lead lanthanum zirconate titanate (PLZT) structures with micrometer and submicrometer periods were created by an impressing sol-gel process, in which PLZT was used as the ceramic precursor and various butterfly wings were used as biological templates. It is a simple, inexpensive, and lithography-free method for fabricating two-dimensional-ordered microstructures using natural biological templates, which can be used to study the periodic submicrometer dimension effect and photonic bandgap property of functional ceramics.