When did China's creative prints develop?

Before the 1930s, printmaking was still copying printmaking. From 193 1, the new woodcut advocated by Lu Xun began to have prints in China.

Emerging prints and ancient copying prints are not only very different in production technology, but also qualitatively different in artistic function and practical significance. Emerging printmaking has been closely related to the liberation of the Chinese nation and the fate of the broad masses of the people since its birth. It is an important part of China's revolutionary literature and art and the main force of left-wing art in 1930s. Printmakers stepped onto the historical stage as artists and revolutionary fighters, and took art as a weapon of battle with a clear-cut stand, which played a great role in the ideological education front.

China prints are an important category of China fine arts. Ancient prints mainly refer to woodcuts, but a few copperplate prints and overprinting are not allowed. The unique taste of knife wood makes it have independent artistic value and position in the history of China culture and art.