What is the origin of sketch? Is it from cross talk? Were there sketches in ancient times?

China's comedy sketches originated in the early 1980s, inheriting and developing the advantages of drama, duet and sketch. Especially, Zhu Shimao, Yan Shunkai, Zhao, Song Dandan, Pan Changjiang, Zhao Benshan, Little Shenyang and so on.

The word sketch first appeared in Shi Shuo Xin Yu in Jin Dynasty.

In the thirty-ninth year of Wanli (16 1 1), Wang Jian-yi compiled Su Changgong's Collected Works, which was originally regarded as a literary concept. Chen Jiru's Essays on Su Changgong said: "If you want to choose a collection of essays on long-term workers, you should choose short works before differences, with tens of thousands of words on theory, strategy and printing, so that students can learn later. For those who read Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, it is not too late to read "A Han Xiao" first, and then it was written into 548 volumes. This method of reading long public collections is also. " (Mr. Mei Gong's Essays on the Evening Fragrant Hall, Volume XI) puts forward "short but different" as the feature of "essays" and compares it with "Essays on A Han", which shows that the concept of "essays" was moved from Buddhist scriptures. This is the original concept of "essays" in the late Ming Dynasty, which generally refers to prose style, with short length, meaningful and novel. Chen Jiru was the leader of the "Mountain Man" family in the late Ming Dynasty. Under his call, the word "sketch" spread like wildfire, and at that time everyone rushed to write, select and discuss sketches, which became the general trend.