Wan Laiming (万籁鸣) was the man who breathed life into the Monkey King, bringing Chinese animation to its heights in the 1960s and putting it at an international level for its time.
万籁鸣（万籁鸣）是为《猴王》注入生命力的人，在20世纪60年代将中国动画带到了顶峰，并将其置于当时的国际水平。
Born in Nanjing in 1900, Laiming had three brothers, all of whom would work together on his later seminal work, possibly largely thanks to their mother, who encouraged in her boys an interest in the arts, especially puppetry. Yet, it was with Wan Guchan that Laiming would kick start the Chinese animation industry, working together at the time in the fine art departments at Shanghai Commercial Press.
莱明于1900年出生于南京，有三个兄弟，他们都一起从事他后来的开创性工作，这在很大程度上要归功于他们的母亲，她鼓励她的儿子对艺术，特别是木偶感兴趣。 然而，正是与Wan Guchan一起，Laiming将启动中国动画行业，当时在上海商业出版社的美术部门合作。
Perhaps China’s earliest film studio was operated by The Press, their in 1917 having managed to obtain equipment owned by a bankrupt American entrepreneur.
也许中国最早的电影制片厂是由新闻界经营的，他们在1917年设法获得了一位破产的美国企业家拥有的设备。
Absconded to working in an attic, the two brothers independently created a flip-book animation of a cat catching a mouse with no prior knowledge of the technique that had been around for a while in western countries. It was there and then that the two would also day after day experiment with zoetrope animation.
两兄弟在阁楼上工作，他们独立制作了一个翻页书动画，其中一只猫抓老鼠，事先对西方国家已经存在了一段时间的技术一无所知。 就在那里，然后两人也会日复一日地尝试zoetrope动画。
Laiming had his own version of the Chinese Dream, wanting to pull stories from Chinese folk tales and employ traditional art and music in animation. In 1940, despite numerous budget cuts, China’s first feature-length animation was complete. Like its sequel to be, “Princess Iron Fan” was based on an episode from one of China’s great pieces of literature,“Journey to the West”.
莱明有自己的中国梦版本，想从中国民间故事中提取故事，并在动画中采用传统艺术和音乐。 1940年，尽管多次削减预算，中国第一部长篇动画还是完成了。 就像它的续集一样，《铁扇公主》是根据中国伟大的文学作品之一《西游记》中的一集改编的。
A major success, the movie was shown even in Japan during the war, where it served to inspire Tezuka Osamu in his creation of the 1960s Japanese manga series “Astro Boy”.
这部电影大获成功，甚至在战争期间在日本放映，激发了手冢治作20世纪60年代日本漫画系列《Astro Boy》的创作。
Princess Iron Fan was also to lay the groundwork for the pinnacle of Chinese animation that was to be Laiming’s legacy, “Havoc in Heaven” (大闹天宫), also translated as “Uproar in Heaven” (1961-65), released in two parts and co-directed with Tang Cheng, and the other three Wan brothers serving as producers. The four are today recognised as the pioneers of the animation film industry in China.
铁凡公主还为莱明的遗产《大闹天宫》（大闹天宫）奠定了基础，该片分为两部分，与唐成共同执导，其他三万兄弟担任制片人。 这四人如今被公认为中国动画电影业的先驱。
With its genesis in Princess Iron Fan, Havoc in Heaven had been in the works for more than 10 years, its production curtailed by the outbreak of war. The two parts of the film were completed in 1961 and 1964, and had their first screening together the following year.
《天堂的破坏》起源于《铁扇公主》，已经制作了10多年，其生产因战争爆发而减少。 这部电影的两部分于1961年和1964年完成，并在第二年一起放映。
Relating the misadventures and misfortunes of the mischievous Monkey King, Havoc in Heaven went on to be a huge international success, with audiences and critics alike. In 1978, the movie won the outstanding film award at the International London Film Festival, and went on to be broadcast by the BBC in 1980, 1981 and 1983.
《天堂的破坏》讲述了调皮的《猴王》的不幸和不幸，在国际上取得了巨大的成功，观众和评论家都受到了欢迎。 1978年，这部电影在伦敦国际电影节上获得了杰出电影奖，并在1980年、1981年和1983年由BBC播出。
Elsewhere, the animation won a Special Interest award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, and was broadcast on Swedish, Danish and Russian television, also in the 1980s.
在其他地方，这部动画在捷克共和国的卡罗维发利国际电影节上获得了特别兴趣奖，并在20世纪80年代在瑞典、丹麦和俄罗斯电视台播出。
That Laiming found much of his early inspiration in Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” earned him the reputation as the Walt Disney of China, a sign of the high regard in which this particular Great Nanjinger is held. Laiming passed away on 7 October, 1997, in Shanghai.
莱明在迪士尼的《白雪公主与七个小矮人》中找到了许多早期的灵感，这为他赢得了中国华特迪士尼的声誉，这表明这位伟大的南京人受到高度重视。 Laiming于1997年10月7日在上海去世。