Cartoons are like a window that let us see the culture of a country. For example, the popular Japanese manga Naruto shows us life about ninjias.It also shows many different themes (主题).
If you talk to your parents about their favorite cartoons, you'll find their choices are quite different from yours. They were arts of oil painting, paper cutting or puppets (木偶). Today's cartoons are made with computers. They have more exciting sound and pictures.
What's happened to cartoons over the past years in China?Little Tadpole Looking for Mom (1961)was China's first ink-painting cartoon, together with puppet cartoon such asThe Magic Brush (1955). After 1978, more foreign cartoons came to China. Over the next twenty years, China made many excellent cartoons, such asMr. Black (1984), CalabashBrothers (1986), The Big Head Son and Small Head Father (1995).
China has its International Cartoon Festival in Hangzhou every year. Many Chinese cartoons won prizes at international film festivals, likeThree Monks, Nezha Stirs up the Sea, and The Monkey King.
A. Our cartoons started to become better.
B. Now, the cartoon industry (产业) in China is growing fast.
C. Early cartoons were short and they were usually made by hand.
D. After 1949, China started to make cartoons with its own character (特色).
E. Chinese cartoons show our traditional culture, like ink painting and paper cutting.
F. US cartoons such as Superman opened up the world to superhero (超级英雄) culture.
