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Chinese animation has a history of over 80 years, starting with the "Wan Brothers" who started to Chinese cartoon films in the 1920s in many kinds of categories, such as puppet, paper-cut and so on.
Ink-wash animation is a part of it. When it first appeared in the 1960s, it was a breakthrough in the form of expression and aesthetic (美学的)conception in animated area. Two ink-wash films called "Tadpoles Searching for Mother" and "Cowherd's Flute," with Te Wei as art director and Qian Jiajun as technical director developed a high reputation both at home and abroad.
The former received the Best Animated Film Prize at the First Hundred Flower Awardswinning five international prizes, while "Cowherd's Flute" was awarded the Golden Prize at the Odense International Fairy Tale Film Festival in Denmark. People called ink-wash animation the "fifth Chinese".
