版画最早出现于中国的后汉时期,伴随中国印刷术的诞生而出现,其中的图像印刷就是最初的版画雏形。此后的几百年里,伴随中国造纸术、印刷术的传播,世界各国相继产生了真正意义上的版画。从出现之初,版画就以它特有的优势一可复制性,成为文化传播的重要工具,并成为人类文明早期发展最快的画种,成为一种世界性的艺术语言。版画在欧美、日本等经济发达国家一直都是最受欢迎和销量最好的画种。 Prints first appeared in the post-Han Chinese period, with the birth of Chinese printing emerged, the image printing is the first prototype of the print. In the following hundreds of years, along with the spread of Chinese papermaking and printing, all countries in the world have successively produced prints in real sense. From the outset, printmaking has become an important tool for cultural transmission with its unique advantages and become an important tool for cultural transmission. It has become the fastest-growing painting type in early human civilization and has become a worldwide art language. Printmaking in Europe and the United States, Japan and other economically developed countries has been the most popular and best-selling paintings.