Chapter 271

For viewers born between 1990 and 2005 in China, Animation City on CCTV Channel 1 is undoubtedly an indelible childhood memory. In an era when the internet was not yet widespread and televisions remained the mainstream home entertainment appliance, this program occupied the childhoods of nearly all children across the country. The golden age of domestic animation truly belonged to this period. Outstanding domestic animated works such as Calabash Brothers, Deer of Nine Colors, Black Cat Detective, Blue Mouse and Big-Faced Cat, Journey to the West, Big Head Son and Small Head Father, and later The Adventures of Little Carp, Legend of Nezha, and The Chess Boy were basically all broadcast through Animation City during this era.