When did comic strips begin to appear in China

China's comic strips, which can be traced back to the Han Dynasty's portrait stones and the Dunhuang murals of the Northern Wei Dynasty, consisted of successive panels depicting stories or biographies. On the lacquered coffins of the Mawangdui Han Tomb, stories such as "Tubo Eating Snake" and "Sheep Riding on a Flying Crane" are depicted in multiple panels. Mogao Grottoes Dunhuang murals in the Northern Wei Dynasty murals have "nine-colored deer Bensheng", "Pavilion meat trade pigeon figure" and other stories of Buddha Bensheng.

Wei-Jin period of scroll painting already has the characteristics of the comic strip, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty Gu Kaizhi's "Luoshen Fu scroll", "Women's History Scroll", are characters in the scroll paintings appear consecutively, constituting the storyline, the figure is also equipped with a simple description of the text next to the later comic strip is very similar to the form of very close.

Extended information:

The appearance of the name of the comic strip can be traced back to the 1920s. Picture books such as Journey to the West, Water Margin, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms published by the Shanghai World Bookstore were first given the name "comic book" and labeled on the cover with the words "Entertainment for men, women, children and the elderly".

In the 1930s, Lu Xun and Su Wen engaged in a debate about comic strips, and Qu Qiubai, Mao Dun, and Ai Siqi became involved in the debate, which slowly drew the attention of the cultural community to comic strips. Lu Xun wrote in his "Defense of Serialized Pictures": "Serialized pictures not only can become art, but also sit inside the 'Palace of Art'. As for this is also like other arts and literature, to have good content and technology, that is needless to say."

The boom in comic strips came after the founding of New China. New Year's paintings, comic strips and propaganda paintings became an important vehicle for publicizing national guidelines and policies, and most of the nation's outstanding figure painters concentrated on the creation of comic strips, such as Xu Yansun, Liu Jizhen, Wang Shuhui, He Youzhi, Ren Ruying, Gu Bingxin and Liu Danzhao, whose large number of creations brought prosperity to comic strips.

The Water Margin comic book was reprinted 16 times from 1955 to 1960, with a total print run of 600,000 copies of each episode; the 15-episode Yue Fei biography pictorial library was issued in more than 67.4 million copies from 1958 to 1984***; and the 5-episode Yang Family Generals was issued in more than 13.5 million copies from 1958 to 1981***... ...From 1953, when the People's Fine Arts Publishing House set up the editorial board of comic strips to 1962, **** published about 1,400 kinds of comic strip books and printed more than 100 million copies.

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