连环画 - 古老的中国传统艺术

Comic strips, also known as comic strips, comic strips, small books, doll books, etc. Comic strips are an ancient Chinese traditional art that took shape after the popularization of printing in the Song Dynasty. The story is narrated and the characters are portrayed with continuous pictures. This form has a wide range of subjects and diverse contents. It is a popular reading.
With the changes of the times, comic strips have entered all fields of life, and comic strips in a broad sense can be extended to scrolls painted by literati, murals in temples, folk flower-paper New Year pictures, wood carvings and brick carvings in buildings. In the prosperous historical period of comic strips, people's entertainment life was relatively simple, and the way of comic strips entertaining and teaching has become an important reading for many people. Due to the various artistic expressions of comic strips, and the subject matter of traditional Chinese culture and certain historical period characteristics, it is very different from comic works in other countries and has its own unique artistic expression.