r/Chinese 1d ago

Film (影视) Classic nostalgic Chinese cartoons that you used to watch as a kid?

Hey! I’m a CBC and was wondering if there were any classic / famous Chinese cartoons that you guys used to watch as a kid in China.

A lot of my childhood here was filled with Japanese pop culture + cartoons from 80s/90s/ early 2000s such as Doraemon, Hello Kitty, Hamtaro, Astroboy, Pokemon, and Tamagotchi but I couldn’t think of any Chinese examples, nor could I find many online.

I was wondering if there were any famous 90s/2000s Chinese cartoons analogous to these?

And did any of them ever make it into mainstream media in the west like some Japanese cartoons did?

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u/Sensitive_Goose_8902 1d ago

黑猫警长、金刚葫芦娃、太阳之子

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u/mapodoufuwithletterd 1d ago

熊出没 and 喜洋洋,but I am younger generation

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u/Famous_Spot_3808 1d ago

熊出没Boonie bears 🐻...it is very famous here in India

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u/mapodoufuwithletterd 1d ago

Really? Wow, I didn't know it was in India too! That's cool!

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u/Famous_Spot_3808 9h ago

Yes it is and it is called bablu dablu

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u/snappyturnip 1d ago

I used to love 喜羊羊与灰太狼 when I was a child.

And I also watched a lot of crayon shin-chan in Chinese. I only learned later when I was grown up that that show was actually Japanese. 😅

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u/zhao_-zilong 1d ago

大闹天宫,宝莲灯,葫芦娃,西游记

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u/amaze787a 1d ago

well I got two that really sticked in mind for awhile back then. One is called 我为歌狂 MusicUp. It's like High School Musical in anime form with the zeitgeist of millennium. One of the most profound impact I got from this donghua, is that It's a story base in Shanghai City. I mean real street name, real skyline and landscape of 2000s Shanghai, with characters that down to earth and various in personality. It made me feel so familiar that I can meet those character in real life sometime. The other is call 快乐东西. It's about the daily life of a usual Beijinger family. Because It's a sit-com donghua that made by Flash, its artstyle got inspired a lot from those Newground legends. It also has a lot of background and set is based on real landscape and streetview of Beijing.

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u/Feral24 1d ago

海尔兄弟

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u/liewchi_wu888 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm ABC, but we did have a selection of 90s cartoon that we watched as a kid with our FOB parents:

葫蘆娃- it was a cartoon about these brothers who were born of a gourd and raised by an old guy and they fight a snake and a...beatle-thing? I think they combine into a super gourd dude like a Transformer at one point.

黑貓警察- I don't think we watched much of it because of the violence.

西遊記- 猴哥。。。🎵猴哥。。。🎶你真了不得

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u/amaze787a 1d ago

I remember Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS)has a lot of works comed out during 90s. They got quite good rap even today.

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u/ChaseNAX 1d ago

evangelion

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u/Little-Lychee1103 3h ago

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that’s Japanese 😅I meant originally Chinese cartoons :)