The supplement first appeared in the Chinese and Western Examination Monthly, which was founded by foreign missionaries in Guangzhou in 1833. This is the first modern newspaper published in China. This newspaper published a group of five-character poems "Ten Blue Shield Poems" (according to "Blue Shield", that is, London), marked as "written by a Han scholar living in Kyoto, England", which is probably the earliest Han Dynasty published in this newspaper.
Haiyao has the name of England in the northwest.
If the ground is cold, it should be near the fire.
Sincere respect and worship, good worship and observance of the Bible.
I hate Buddha alone, and I won't stop fighting.
186 1 year, Zilin foreign firm published Shanghai New Newspaper in Shanghai, which was the first Chinese newspaper in Shanghai. In its later period, it sometimes published some literary works, such as poems. For example, 1870 published some lyrics to punish evil and promote good, such as Opium Song and Zhi Zhu Ci, but not many.
1872, Shenbao was established in Shanghai. This is the earliest commercial newspaper in China, which openly claims to be for profit. In order to attract more readers, the newspaper took various measures, one of which was to publish poems and other literary works to contact the influential "literati" in society at that time. The first article of the Newspaper Regulations published in the No.1 Newspaper Regulations sets a price for newspapers, and the second article says, "If poets are willing to teach short stories and long stories, such as Zhi Zhu's Ci poems and long songs in famous regions of the world, they will not pay attention to them." Previously, literary and artistic works had to be published in newspapers, which not only cost no money, but also paid a certain amount of money like advertisements. The declaration of "Shen Bao" is free, which is naturally a great encouragement to those literati who are dancing and writing. Therefore, as soon as the call for papers came out, poetry manuscripts kept flowing and newspapers couldn't insert them. Therefore, Ying Si Suoji and other periodicals were added to Shenbaoguan. Citing the provisions of Shenbao can be said to be the earliest call for papers in China newspapers.
Since the opening of Shenbao, newspapers have followed suit, and literary and artistic works have gradually become an indispensable part of newspapers. But there is no fixed site at this time, and it is usually mixed with press releases. Gradually, in addition to poetry, some newspapers also published some novels, such as Report, which was initiated by Yung Wing and 1874 was founded in Shanghai and serialized. This shows that the literary manuscripts of newspapers have begun to develop from simple poetry works to comprehensive aspects.
Zilin Shanghai Newspaper, founded in 1883, played an important role in promoting the appearance of the supplement. When Zilin Shanghai Newspaper was founded, Shenbao had a history of ten years. It is powerful and experienced, and Zilin Shanghai Newspaper can hardly compete with it in news and advertising, which urges it to find a way out in publishing literary manuscripts. On the one hand, they continue to publish poems, keep in touch with a group of conservative literati, and break through the convention of Zhi Zhu Ci in Shenbao in style, with more varieties. On the other hand, he devoted himself to winning over middle and lower class readers, and adopted a popular literary genre. The novel Exposed Stories of Wild Sour (written by Jingxing in Qing Dynasty, back to 154, describing the tortuous experience of the host's official document from exile to worship) is an important attempt, which can be said to be the first time that a China newspaper serialized a novel (The British newspaper Hong Kong Ji was translated and published as early as11940s). On May 2nd 1897, Zilin Shanghai newspaper began to serialize Wang Tao's The Words of the Old Gourmet. Wang Tao introduced himself: "All the novelty of scenery, the changes of ghosts and foxes, beautiful chapters, children's feelings and shocking coke are all included." This serial belongs to the genre of essays, which is concise, informative and interesting, and is indeed a good material for supplement. In the past, there was no fixed position for newspapers to publish poems. When Zilin Shanghai Daily published "wild sour dew words" and "food superfluous words", it was fixed in the last edition, which is the origin of the so-called "reporting ass". At this time, although it has not been separated from the front page of the newspaper, it is already an independent single page different from the front page, which shows that the birth of the supplement is approaching. More than half a year later,1October 24th, 1897 165438, which is considered as the first newspaper supplement in China, was finally born. This newspaper has two editions, including poems, anecdotes, notes, biographies and humorous articles. , and contains some news materials. It is a comprehensive supplement, edited by Gao Taiji, and distributed free of charge with Zilin Shanghai Daily. At that time, there was no such name as "attached page", which was called "attached chapter" and later called "attached page", but today it does not mean "attached page", because at that time, any single page independent of the original page, regardless of its content, was called "attached page". 1900, Zilin Shanghai newspaper was sold to the East Asian Literature Association of Japan, and the registration was changed to the poster with the same title. The supplement Leisure Newspaper was renamed Wentong Leisure Newspaper, Leisure Record in 190 1 and Leisure Record in 1903.