On the Budding Period of Chinese Original Children’s Picture Books

The emergence of the first set of original children’s picture books of modern significance in China is not accidental or sudden. Instead, it has appeared after a long period of exploration. This paper traces the origin of Chinese original children’s picture books in the ordinate of history and sorts out the development history of Chinese original children’s picture books in its infancy, hoping to enlighten the development and research of children’s picture books at present.


Introduction
Picture books are not only a special kind literary works but also an important educational resource. They are internationally recognized as being the most suitable books for children to read. Tadashi Matsui, known as the father of modern picture books in Japan, defines picture books as the art of combining language and pictures in a way of re-creation and visualizing as the material form of books, without losing its characteristics [1]. Peng Yi, the author of Chinese children's literature points out that picture books are an art in which pictures and words interweave and interact with each other on different levels to tell stories. Pictures are no longer the appendages of words. Instead, they are the key to the life of picture books [2]. Hao Guangcai holds the view that a picture book is probably a book, using a set of pictures to express a story, or a theme like a story [3]. Picture books in this paper are a form of books that focuses on pictures with a small number of words. They tell stories, convey knowledge and construct values through a coherent and logical set of pictures and words. From L. Y. Ma the above definitions, we can see that picture books have the following characteristic: the relationship between the picture and the text is "the picture X the text", that is to say, the picture is the main means of narration, and the text bears the function of hinting and guiding the picture. There should be continuity and narration between pictures. They embody artistic skills, possessing the physical properties of "books" (including size, shape, thickness, weight, paper, etc.).
At present, the researches on children's picture books in Chinese academic circles mainly focus on the educational value of picture books, parent-child reading, the teaching research on picture books, the application of English picture books, the development and publication of picture books, and so on, but

Diary Story: The First Set of Illustrated Children's Reading Materials in China
Although there was no such saying as "picture books" in ancient China, there was always a tradition of image narration. Zheng Qiao of the Southern Song Dynasty in ancient China, devoted a special discussion to the value of the picture in a chapter called The Outline of Pictures of his work Tongzhi, in which there was an incisive exposition on the tradition of "having pictures on the left and history on the right" in China [11]. In his work, Zheng Qiao highly appraised the value of images in narration and advocated the combination of texts and pictures. As for children's books, China's preliminary learning reading materials appeared much earlier in a large number. But it wasn't until the Yuan Dynasty that the illustrated preliminary learning reading material, Diary Story ( Figure 1 & Figure 2), appeared.

From Children's Monthly Magazine to Children's Education Pictures: New Practice of Children's Picture Books in Late Qing Dynasty
In the late Qing Dynasty, missionaries brought the tradition of the western illu-

Children's World: The Establishment of Picture Story as an Independent Style
The preparation of children's concept and the publication practice of children's books have prepared for the emergence of picture stories, a new style of children's books. In China, the earliest practice of taking "Picture Story" as a con-    However, since the kindergarten series were attached to the magazine Children's World, they do not yet have the carrier form of books in the concept of picture books. At the same time, in dealing with the relationship between texts and pictures, texts and pictures sometimes overlap and that needs to be strengthened.
Although kindergarten series picture stories are not the first picture books in modern China, its status in the history of Chinese modern children's picture books can not be ignored.

Conclusions
The emergence of modern children's picture books in China was not accidental or sudden. Instead, it has gone through a long preparatory process. The development process of Chinese original children's picture book in its infancy is essentially a process of its getting closer and closer to the picture books in the modern sense. In this long period of development, the following features have emerged: 1) the relationship between pictures and characters in picture books has gradually evolved from words as the main character to pictures as the secondary character; 2) the language of picture books has evolved from adult expression to Through the above-mentioned carding, this paper clarifies the development of Chinese picture books in its budding period. Although there are still some gaps between the Chinese picture books in the budding period and those in the modern sense, this is in line with the law of the development of things themselves and the objective laws of people's understanding of things. At the same time, it also gives some enlightenment to the current picture book development: firstly, the development of picture books should establish a scientific ontological view of children; secondly, special attention should be paid to the relationship pictures and texts in picture books; thirdly, the theme of stories in picture books should be as close as possible to the daily life of children and restore it; fourthly, picture books should pay attention to the artistic skills of pictures and images; lastly, the language of picture books should be used in keeping with the language characteristics of children.
This paper's carding of Chinese early childhood picture books belongs to rough line carding, which is also the deficiency of this paper. In the future, the study of early childhood picture books in China can also be explored from the