中国是木刻的发祥地,有着光辉悠久的历史,在世界艺术史中有着重要的位置,木刻在作为过去版画一种单一的形式,目前已发展为包括石版、铜版、丝网版、锌版、综合版、纸版等等。版画从形式上有平版、凹版、凸版、孔版这几类。在表现内容上从最初十四世纪作为文学插图、制作扑克牌、宗教画、表现民间故事到对现实和对人自身精神生活的关注,版画艺术经历了一个从萌芽,发展到成熟的漫长历史过程。开始于秦代的印章,其中有一种称为“肖形印”的,可以称之为我国最古老的“版画小品”。而汉代画像石刻,可以说是我国一种最古老的“大型版画”。隋唐五代的版画便进入了它的成长期,到了宋元达 China is the birthplace of woodcut and has a glorious history. It has an important position in the art history of the world. As a single form of past printmaking, woodcut has been developed to include stone, copper, screen, zinc, synthetic Version, paper version and so on. Prints from the form of lithography, gravure, letterpress, hole version of these types. From the beginning of the fourteenth century, as a literary illustration, making poker cards, religious paintings, expressing folktales to paying attention to reality and people’s own spiritual life, the print art has undergone a long historical process from budding to maturity . Beginning with the seals of the Qin Dynasty, one of them is called “Xiao Xing Yin”, which can be called the oldest “print sketch” in our country. The Han Dynasty portrait stone, can be said that one of China’s oldest “large-scale prints.” The prints of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties have entered its growth period, reaching the Song and Yuan dynasties