In 1895, the world's first film was born, and human artistic creation and cultural ideals into a new era of history. Chinese film was born in 1905, along with the process of films in the world, along with the revival of the Chinese nation, with its distinctive national character and aesthetic characteristics and achieved brilliant achievements and forge a historical monument, the film world to made a unique contribution to the arts. Folk custom film during this stage from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, in Chen Kaige's "yellow earth", Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" and "Farewell My Concubine" and "alive" as the representative. Chinese film taken the first step to the world, and began to concern in the international, made the Golden Bear, golden, golden palm, Venice a series of awards. The Chinese film in this period takes the feudal family as the background, and has demonstrated the tragic story of the crime and the penalty in the feudal autocratic period of China.. These subjects although in a certain extent caused the misunderstanding of China's foreign people, but the more people interested in China, but also makes the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers such as Gong Li, Ge, Zhang Yimou, such as Chinese filmmakers to grow for the film world. The independent film period in the mid 1990s to the late 1990s, is a modern Chinese film industry in the low tide period, on the one hand is because the Chinese government censorship of the film industry had too strict. On the other hand is due to the impact of TV culture. Under the historical background of this difficult, the sixth generation of Chinese film from the angle of edge cultural attitude, life of the lower class people and fusion of Chinese culture and Western culture, starting produced a certain amount of work, in the world each big film festival has made some achievements. Such as "bath", "hair disorder" and so on. The film industry of China entered the new stage of the rapid development since 2001 when China joined WTO.. The great progress of Chinese movies made the film back to people's daily life.. Last year alone, the film's overseas box office receipts has reached 1900000000, exceeding the domestic box office income (2800000000) of the 2/3. In classical themes, the theme of the chivalric, strange love story, martial arts plot for the technique of expression of the Chinese film won wide acclaim from the international market. "Hero", "Tianxia Wu Zei", "the banquet", "Curse of the Golden Flower" is the outstanding representative of this period. At the same time through the film this huge advertising carrier, China's culture is increasingly known to the overseas.