With a handful of hair curled up on his forehead and always wearing bloomers, Tintin, who is always referred to as a "young man" in comic strips, has passed his 93rd birthday on January 10 this year.
Tintin in a foreign country
Tintin, a young journalist, constantly adventures in the comic book world, and has also had a growth experience in real life. Hergé, the author of Tintin, whose original name was George Remy, was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1907. George Jr.'s main interest was in scouting, and he was nicknamed "The Nosy Fox." Overall, george as a child didn't do anything out of the ordinary, but he recounted two ways his parents quieted him down: one was the traditional spanking, and the other was more effective, giving him a pen and a piece of paper.
The young George was immersed in painting, but he had not trained for a day and was completely self-taught. He drew pictures of the Scouting story in Boy Scout magazine. In 1924, he first used the pen name Hergé. In 1926 he created the graphic story "Daredevil Patrol Captain Todd", in which the shadow of Tintin first appeared. In 1928, Hergé added a dog named Snow to Todd's story. On January 10, 1929, Tintin was born in the magazine Young Men of the 20th Century, the first story of Tintin's adventures in the Soviets, and Hergé published two pages a week until the end of the series in May 1930. Hergé then sent Tintin to the Congo and sent him to the Americas in 1932. Early Tintin now seems strange, especially angering some environmentalists, such as When Tintin was in the Congo, he slaughtered 15 antelopes for dinner and killed and skinned a gorilla. Tintin also exudes the superiority of some colonists, and the black Africans in the story admire him very much, teaching their children to say: "If you are disobedient, you will never become a person like Tintin." Luckily, Hergé quickly removed Tintin's disgusting aura and found him many lovely companions, and the story became more and more vivid.
Tintin's predecessor, "Daredevil Patrol Captain Todd"
Pharaoh's Cigar and Blue Lotus were completed in war. In 1935, Tintin's story in China, Blue Lotus, began to be serialized, and in 1936, a single book was published. The hatred of the Japanese invaders revealed in the book touched all the Chinese. The following Adventures of Tintin were published regularly, about every 15 months, and they were Broken Ears, The Black Island, and The Scepter of King Ottoka. Hergé enlisted in the army in 1939 and completed The Land of Black Gold in the barracks. During the German occupation of Belgium, Hergé's work no longer dealt with sensitive political topics as it once did. Romantic stories of the Golden Pincer Crab Drug Cartel, The Seven Crystal Balls, and especially romantic stories of the Search for Buried Treasures, such as The Secret of the Unicorn and The Treasure of Red Rackham, are examples of escapism. "Mysterious Meteor" ushered in the era of "color versions" of Tintin's adventures.
Hergé writing The Adventures of Tintin
After the liberation of Brussels in September 1944, Hergé was arrested four times for working for the Nazi newspaper Al-Shabaab during the occupation, and was always released promptly, without corporal punishment, but subject to a temporary ban on publication. In 1946, the sequel to Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoner of the Sun, began to be published in magazines with great success, and the days that followed were accompanied by rising numbers of publications and great accolades. In 1950, the "Hergé Studio" was founded, numerous assistants surrounded Hergé, and Since then Tintin's adventures have flourished, and the young reporter and his friends have become international stars. On September 29, 1976, the bronze statue of Tintin and Snow Snow was inaugurated in Brussels; in 1979, the People of Brussels and Paris celebrated Tintin's 50th birthday and built the Tintin Museum; in 1982, the Belgian government named a newly discovered star "Planet Hergé" as a 75th birthday gift to Hergé... In his later years, Hergé rarely appeared in public, saying that he wanted to create Tintin's new adventures in the modern art world, but this wish was not realized. On 3 March 1985, he died of illness at the St. Luke University Clinic on the outskirts of Brussels, his last work being Tintin and the Tramp. After Hergé's death, his assistants continued to draw some Tintin stories under the name of "Hergé Studio", but they lost all of their energy and soon became a passing cloud.
All Chinese edition covers of The Adventures of Tintin
Tintin in China
In the manga Tinntin's Chinese name is determined to be Tintin
Tintin's relationship with China is particularly deep. It all started with Blue Lotus. After Sending Tintin to the Soviet Union, Congo, and South America, Hergé decided to send him to mysterious China. In 1934, on the recommendation of a priest, Hergé met Zhang Chongren, a 27-year-old Chinese student studying in the oil painting department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Zhang Chongren told Hergé about Chinese history, philosophy, literature, and art, which enabled him to dispel his misunderstanding of China. In "Blue Lotus", Hergé euphemistically expressed his feelings of re-understanding China: detectives Thomson brothers came to China in the thirties with a feathered belt and a robe and a horse coat, thinking that they were dressed like Chinese, and as a result, they were watched and ridiculed by everyone. More importantly, of course, is that "Blue Lotus" portrays a young Chinese boy named Zhang Chongren, who is humble and brave, and helps Tintin defeat the drug dealer. The Chinese characters on the screen, such as "Down with Japanese imperialism", are from the real Zhang Chongren. "Zhang" became the most famous Chinese, and among the French-speaking countries of the world, about 1 billion people know the name Zhang Chongren.
After Hergé and Zhang Chongren separated, they lost contact for many years. In 1960, he launched Tintin in Tibet, China, to realize the dream of a "pure white". The plot he designed is that Zhang Chongren's plane crashed in the Himalayas, and people thought that he was bound to die, but Tintin heard Zhang cry out for help in his dream, insisted on going to Tibet, and went through all the difficulties to rescue Zhang from the "snowman". In 1981, Hergé and Zhang Chongren were finally reunited, and it seemed that it was a festival for all Belgians, Zhang Chongren was warmly welcomed by the King and Queen of Belgium, and the printing house printed "Blue Lotus" day and night, at which point Zhang Chongren knew how famous he was. Now that Hergé and Zhang Chongren have passed away, Dante has made them immortal legends.
Tintin and Zhang in the comics and Hergé and Zhang Chongren in reality are reunited after many years of separation and tearful embrace
Zhang Chongren's autographed drawing
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