History of Chinese Cartoon

Comics are paintings that emphasize the meaning of brief strokes in painting, and the word "comic" is similar in meaning to the word "comic" used for comic writing and rambling.

Comic writing, comic talk in the genre is essay, essay, and comics is the painting of the essay, of the sketch, generally also random material, short, through the realism, metaphor, symbolism, false, hyperbole, point of view of all the methods of expression of the essence of the content.

The origin of painting in China is not well documented before the Third Century.

The historical facts, there can be described, when the creation of Yu and Shun period.

The history of the Nest created wood, Figure wheel ring, Fuxi's view of the signs of the stars, birds and beasts and painting gossip, is the beginning of China's painting.

Until the Cangjie out, look at the potential of the Quixing Qu axis, check the turtle Wen mountains and rivers of the traces, with the body stuttering and the system of hieroglyphics, the prototype of China's paintings have been available.

From the gradual development, so far more than four thousand years of history, painting in the art of a large country, the impact of the world quite far.

And comics in China, less than a hundred years of history.

The earliest to the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Shizeng's in Shanghai published the "Pacific Newspaper" on the improvisation of random works, small shape, ink and frugal and interest is quite strong.

Unfortunately, the frequent wars, the dust and smoke attack, the publication was lost, it is difficult to see the whole picture, but Lu Xun, Zheng Zhenduo's collection of "Beijing paper", collect Chen's similar cartoons, can still see the remnants of the early cartoons.

By the mid-twenties, or more accurately, by 1925, Feng Zikai had drawings published in Literature Weekly, which the editors specifically referred to as "comics", and the name "comics" began to be seen by the public.

Since then and now in the past seventy years, China's comics have been on the rise, and have been very colorful, such as strange flowers, all presented in the Yao Yuan, a magnificent sight.

Cartoonists, with creative spirit, rich life experience and artistic attainments, have developed the art of cartooning, especially cartooning is closer to and reflects the reality, which makes the cartoon works in the past seventy years show the earthly phase and worldly phase of the past seventy years, and expose and satirize the corruption and darkness of the old China at different levels and from different sides, reflecting the picture of the nation's struggle for liberation, propagating the idea of democracy and the style of the times, and promoting the spirit of democracy and the spirit of the times. Democratic ideology and style of the times, expressing the individuality of the artistic taste, which makes the cartoon become the treasure of China's painting art, occupies a very important position in the history of China's modern painting.

In order to promote the art of cartooning, to make people at home and abroad know more about the whole scroll of cartooning development, and to understand the three senses of cartooning art, we will organize and edit the representative works of Mr. Fang Cheng, who is an accomplished and influential Chinese cartoonist, and launch them on a regular basis.

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The Palace of Heaven

From: China

Era: 1964

Directed by: Wan Lai-Ming

The Greatest Show on Earth

Directed by Wan Lai Ming

In 1964, Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio's 120-minute animated film "The Great Pandemonium of Heavenly Palace" modified the tragic tail of the original story, in which the Monkey King is crushed under the Five Elements Mountain, into a bright ending of a great victory against the Heavenly Palace.

The Greatest Showman is a concentrated expression of traditional Chinese culture and artistic aesthetics.

Many of the characters, including the protagonist Sun Wukong, are imbued with rich connotations of Peking Opera faces, classical painting and traditional sculpture.

In terms of combining classical Chinese culture with modern animation techniques, The Great Palace of Heaven is both a peak and a masterpiece.

A few years later, overseas animation, led by Astro Boy, began to flood the Chinese market, and the local animation industry, due to a variety of factors, was never able to recreate the perfection and splendor of the 1960s.

China's first animated film produced by the Wan Brothers came out in 1926, and China's first color animated film, Why the Crow is Black, won awards abroad in 1955, as did The Three Monks, The Gourd Brothers, The Snow Child, and Sheriff the Black Cat, all of which have won awards internationally.

We also produced animated films of international advanced level, such as "The Palace of Heaven", "Tadpole Looking for Mother", "Princess Peacock" and "The Pastor's Flute", and later produced "Nezha Pandering in the Sea", "The Golden Monkey Surrendering the Demon" and other excellent works.