Prints in the arts of painting and engraving of the printing developed on the basis that it began in the Sui Dynasty China, the prevalence of the Tang Dynasty in China, the expansion of the Song Dynasty in China, highly skilled in the Ming Dynasty China, in Manchuria at the decay of the Qing Dynasty.

Chinese prints, after a thousand years of development, from woodcuts to the copper engraving, lithographs, from monochrome printing to color overprint by a single print religious literature to develop prints, prints Hua Pu, in areas such as print New Year by the text attached to the Illustrations to be relatively independent of the arts, has made brilliant achievements of ancient Chinese art has become an important part, but also any country in the world and prints pair with more than.

 

和造纸、印刷术一样，版画艺术的故乡也在中国。版画是在绘画艺术和雕版印刷术的基础上发展起来的，它始于隋，行于唐，扩于宋，精于明，衰于清。经过一千多年的发展，中国版画由木刻版画到铜版画、石版画，由单色印刷到彩色套印，由单一的宗教版画拓展到文学版画、画谱版画、年节版画等领域，由依附于文字的插图到成为相对独立的艺术，取得了辉煌的成就，成为中国古代美术的重要组成部分，而且可以和世界任何一个国家的版画相媲比。