Study hard and practice hard, studying painting under the kerosene lamp every day until late at night. In 1940, he left school and started working on his own, creating comic strips for various bookstores in Shanghai. After the publication of his first work, "The Big World of White Pictures", it won the love of readers and spread it, and attracted widespread attention in various bookstores. Subsequently, he created "Xiao Chen and Mr. Wang", "Jigong Living Buddha", "Win Glory for the Country", "Sky Lantern", "Dragnet", "Puppet Wandering", "Puppet Traveling in the Volcano", "Peacock Gut", "Gong" "You will be a king if you succeed, you will be a bandit if you fail", "Blood Splattered in the Yellow River", "The Red Man", "Abandon the Evil", "The Little Hero of the Pidgin", "Capture the King of Hell Alive", "The First Emperor of Qin" , "Weak Woman", "Devil", "Funny Bright Shoes", "Pak" and other works. Before liberation, he was known as one of the four famous actors in comic strips. He created nearly a hundred comic strips throughout his life. From the 1950s to the 1960s, he created "The Umbrella of All Peoples", "The Thief Master", "Liu Hulan", "The Battle of Red Cliff", "Taoyuan Friendship", "Wangniangtan", " "Thirteen Sisters" and other comic strips that are more influential among readers. Unfortunately, he died of illness on August 14, 1986, at the age of 66.
Mr. Xu Hongda created many well-known masterpieces throughout his life. Among these works, the most outstanding one is the comic strip "Thirteen Sisters". This work was created by Mr. Xu Hongda in the late 1960s, and his techniques are the most skillful. and reached its peak. In the comic strip "Thirteen Sisters", the author writes about the vastness and vastness of the country. Every picture is wonderful, the characters are vividly drawn, the story is tense and exciting, and the picture design and text arrangement complement each other. It was created by Mr. Xu Hongda after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Excellent product.
In "Thirteen Sisters", all the pictures have ups and downs and strong momentum, perfectly interpreting the content of the story in the least amount of space, and showing the author's profound skills in painting techniques, providing us with Leaving behind a rare artistic masterpiece.
The comic strip "Thirteen Sisters" is adapted from the Qing Dynasty's "The Legend of Heroes of Sons and Daughters", also known as "Golden Jade Fate". "The Legend of Sons and Daughters" is the earliest social novel that combines chivalry and romance in the history of Chinese novels. As soon as it came out, it won praise from readers for its unique artistic charm. Some even called it a masterpiece. It goes without saying that the impact is huge. The reason why this novel attracts a wide range of readers is also due to its outstanding achievements in stylistic form and language. In form, it is narrated in the tone of a folk storyteller. It is vivid, melodious, and has strong story-telling. It is loved by ordinary people. This is an important feature that distinguishes it from other long novels in art. Our country's classical novels are deeply influenced by folk rap literature, but it is rare that such novels as "The Heroes of Sons and Daughters" can be read at the desk or used as a storyteller's songbook. The language in the book is authentic Beijing dialect, and in order to meet the needs of life, it also incorporates many daily Manchu expressions. It not only vividly reproduces the living customs and styles of that time, but also has strong local and national colors. , the vividness and humor of the language are even more praised by people.
The comic strip "Thirteen Sisters" was created by Mr. Xu Hongda in 1957 for People's Fine Arts Publishing House and published in December of the same year. Entering the 1960s, Mr. Xu Hongda was at his most passionate period of creation. Unfortunately, the ten-year Cultural Revolution ruthlessly destroyed this talented and majestic comic book master, wasting and delaying his best creative period.
Mr. Xu Hongda also created two comic books in the 1980s, one is the "Water Margin" story "Two Broken Children" published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House, and the other is published by Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House The story "Hu Siniang" from "Liao Zhai". Judging from the expression techniques of these two sets of comic strips, although they still adhere to Mr. Xu Hongda's consistent style, the characters, pictures, backgrounds, and brush and ink lines are far inferior to the previous works.