Picture book is a foreign word, which is a picture book. This word is taken from the Chinese meaning of "ぇほん" in Japanese picture books. As the name implies, it is a "drawn book", which refers to a book mainly based on painting with a small amount of words.

Picture books can not only tell stories and learn knowledge, but also help children build spiritual world and cultivate multiple intelligences. Picture books are the first choice for children's books in developed countries, and it is internationally recognized that "picture books are the most suitable books for children to read".

brief introduction

All human civilizations have a tradition of picture narration, and characters also originated from pictures, so does the Chinese nation. According to archaeological findings, there are pictures left by ancestors in the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins in China, such as rock paintings, pottery paintings and murals, which can be regarded as the earliest record of describing events with pictures in China.

Pictures on bronzes in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, stone reliefs in Qin and Han Dynasties, tomb murals in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, scroll paintings in the Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties, woodcut illustrations of operas and novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Generally speaking, although these illustrations have the ability to tell stories at first, they lack a very important element, and they are not telling stories from the perspective of children.