Discussion On "Chinese Taste" Of Chinese Original Picture Books In The 21^st Century

Picture books, which also called Huiben has become a very mature style of children’s literature in the West after a hundred years of Budding-Exploration-Development. Because of its lively form with variety of colors, and mainly telling story in figure with text as supplement, it soon becomes popular among the children, especially young children who can not read a boon. But in China, this kind of children’s literature is still emerging. The modern sense of picture book is widely known to people in China mainly by reading the introduced version of picture books from other countries. At the beginning of the 21st century, with modern concepts of picture books and a lot of works introduced into China, an unique art form, in which picture and text language, combined and influenced by each other, making the expression of rich content, set off in Chinese publishing and reading promotion climax.At the same time, our own original picture book version works also began to force under the pressure and irritation of introduced version, which appeared Zhou Xiang’s "Lotus town’s morning," and Liang Chuan’s "leak" and a series of excellent picture book works. China has a long history and cultural heritage, which image narrative skill traditions and folk art is also very deep. These are the root of picture books in Chinese natural soil. Under such circumstances, Represented by Xiong Liang, Xiong Lei brothers, picture book creators and researchers proposed the creation of giving children "a memorable China" to promote original picture books with "Chinese taste."In this kind of advocacy, Chinese original picture books in the new century ushered in a period of rapid development itself. A large number of works published with the "Chinese taste" and warmly admitted by Chinese readers, and then to the world. At the same time, there are also a large part of traditional culture works which provide shoddy performance as "pipeline" picture book works, disrupting the Chinese original picture book market in the new century, pulling down the average level of the original picture book.To solve these problems, this paper is divided into five sections to study Chinese original picture book’s "Chinese taste" in the new century, starting from the concept of picture book. The introduction describes the origin and meaning of picture books, defining the connotation of " Chinese taste " in the test, focusing on the development process in the 20th century of Chinese s domestic picture books, expounding that many people worry about the cultural rupture caused by introduced version may cause concern. The second part is mean to analyze domestic publishing situation of original picture book in the new century, leading to the formal introduction of original picture book’s "Chinese taste" advocacy. The third part focuses on Chinese original picture book’s performance on "Chinese taste" in the new century and the presence of its problem. Part IV analyzes the reason to promote "Chinese taste" and its background, through comparison of picture book stage of development in China、Japan、 and South Korea, analyzing the meaning of "Chinese taste" behind such a reference, amid at clarifying the development stage of Chinese original picture book. The last part outlooks the development of Chinese original picture book in the new century. This article intents to put forward feature suggestions to Chinese original picture books through the study on"Chinese taste" of Chinese original picture books in the new century.