Those comics that cannot be erased from memory

Northern Song Dynasty scholar Chao Shuozhi [cháo yuè zhi] has twenty volumes of "Songshan Collected Works". The poem in volume four reads: "There are many rivers in the Yellow River. There are cartoonists who often draw with their mouths." The water seeks fish; it is said that those who believe in destiny always open their mouths and wait for fish. This is the earliest record of the word "manga". In this poem, "manga" refers to bird catching. When fishing, use your mouth to draw in the water. Today, comics refer to drawings that depict life or current events in a simple yet exaggerated way. Generally, methods of deformation, comparison, and symbolism are used to form humorous and humorous pictures to achieve the effect of satire or praise.

In fact, comics originated in China, but our understanding of comics can be too limited, so many young people today think comics come from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Some time ago, I watched a cartoon exhibition, and now I am reading the book "Chinese Comics", and I feel more and more that our Chinese comics are really broad and profound. In 1926, my country's first "Zikai Comics" titled "Comics" was publicly released. From then on, the word "Comics" spread. Chinese comics are different from foreign comics. Take Feng Zikai's comics as an example. His comics are freehand and interesting. They are Chinese ink paintings and have the quintessence of the country. They also outline concise interest and profound artistic conception in just a few strokes.

The "Chinese Comics" in my hand is a collection of comics edited by "Satire and Humor (People's Daily Cartoon Supplement)". From these comics, I discovered China again. When I was a child, my favorite thing to read was the cartoons in the corners of newspapers, which made people laugh. Some of those seemingly inconspicuous cartoons were exposing and satirizing, some were praising and praising, some were microcosms of ordinary people's lives, and some were ordinary society. Touching scenes in it. One cartoon after another reflects various aspects of life.

Just like the works of Hua Junwu, Ding Cong, Xu Pengfei, Fang Cheng, Zhu Senlin, Ying Tao and many other well-known cartoonists selected in this "Chinese Comics", most of the comic works reflect a characteristics and social phenomena of the times.

Cao Kaixiang's "The Banter of Packaging" was created in 1999. The society calls on people to use less or no plastic bags and provide cloth bags for shopping. In this cartoon, an aunt came back from shopping for groceries with a cloth bag. She held a promotional paper in her hand that said "We provide shopping with cloth bags." However, when she got home and poured the food on the table, the food came out of the cloth bag. They are vegetables packed in plastic bags one by one, ironic and duplicitous.

?In Zuo Chuan’s 1993 comic "Forty Times of Penalty Writing", a student is writing homework with four pens in one hand at the same time. This is really cutting corners, don’t you know? Did your son engage in this opportunistic behavior when he was in school?

"Prevention" created by Hao Yanpeng in 2020 exposed an undesirable social phenomenon, which is throwing objects from high altitudes. We have encountered this phenomenon a lot in reality. Some people are really of poor quality and just throw garbage out of the window. Little do they know that this is very dangerous. The potential energy of high-altitude parabolic objects is converted into kinetic energy. The higher the gravity of the object thrown down, the more likely it is. The greater the potential energy, the easier it is to hit someone. For those who are unconscious, we can only take precautions by targeting them with surveillance. I hope that people like this in society will blush after seeing this comic and change their bad habits.

I enjoyed reading each comic and gained a lot of insights from it. Cartoonists use their wonderful pens to present so many aspects of society in just a few strokes, allowing us to see the differences in human nature, including good and evil, good and bad, selflessness and greed. Some people need to use such cartoons to "knock" He, "Zhenzhen" him, bright and silently dedicated, we should also use comics to praise them and carry forward their spirit to the society.

In a small space, we can read various aspects of life. Thanks to "Chinese Comics", we can rediscover China and evoke our memories.