History of photography in China

1839, photography was officially born in France. Soon, the first opium war broke out. 1842, China and Britain signed the unequal treaty of nanking, and China opened five trading ports to the outside world. Subsequently, a large number of businessmen and missionaries came to China, and photography was introduced to Hongkong and Canton in China in the 1940s.

After photography was introduced to China, people in China quickly learned this technique. But at that time, there was no such title as "photo studio". It turns out that before photography was introduced, people needed to save their own images to help painters and their "painting houses" or "image shops" and leave people's faces on paper with traditional painting techniques. Although photography and painting have the same side, compared with portraits, photography is not only cheap, but also realistic, which poses a great threat to the portrait industry. So many painters study photography hard, and the painters of "Painting Building" and "Video Store" became the first people to learn photography in China.

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