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"Glory of the King": Using digital IP as a pen, writing a new chapter in cultural inheritance

In the blink of an eye, 2021 is coming to an end, which is also the sixth year that the king has accompanied players. Looking back on this year, The King has launched several skins linked to traditional Chinese culture, so that players can gain the opportunity to contact more traditional culture knowledge while harvesting exquisite skins. Next, let's review the several traditional culture linkage skins that appeared in 2021.

【Glory China Festival】

In 2021, King Glory launched the "Glory China Festival" skin series project, the official will be around the Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata and Mid-Autumn Festival, the four traditional festivals of the corresponding theme skin, the four skins online time spanning from April to September, respectively, respectively, bring players different styles of seasonal characteristics.

"Flying Duck Exploring Spring" is inspired by the custom of flying kites in the spring of the Qingming Dynasty, and also brings the national intangible cultural heritage Weifang kite to the player's field of vision; "Dragon Drum Controversy" has obvious elements of zongzi and dragon boats, which are the two classic activities of the Dragon Boat Festival: eating zongzi and racing dragon boats; "Beggar Weaving" allows players to appreciate the charm of international intangible cultural heritage embroidery, and also popularizes the relatively niche Tanabata custom of throwing needles and testing skills to the public; "Moon Tuan Zhi Si" shows players the production method of traditional mooncakes, supplemented by moon rabbits in the skin, Elements such as Kong Ming lanterns add a little more to the reunion atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Glory of the King": Using digital IP as a pen, writing a new chapter in cultural inheritance

【White Crane Liang Goddess】

In addition to linking traditional festivals, the king also brings cultural relics into the game in an anthropomorphic way. In June this year, the king officially exposed the linkage skin of Big Qiao and the Chongqing White Crane Liang Museum- the White Crane Liang Goddess. This skin skillfully integrates the inscription and stone fish elements in the white crane beam inscription into the goddess Big Joe, and the elements such as pisces, lotus flowers, and catalpa in the special effects and appearance are full of ancient charm and historical heaviness, and the calligraphy that appears in the skirt of big Joe and the skill special effects intuitively shows the charm of the white crane beam "water inscription". In addition to this exquisite skin, Wang Also cooperated with Chongqing to launch a series of cultural tourism cooperation in the "White Crane Liang Goddess" cultural tourism season, allowing DaQiao to act as a digital guide to lead people to get close to the profound cultural connotation of the Three Gorges cultural relics in the offline exhibition.

"Glory of the King": Using digital IP as a pen, writing a new chapter in cultural inheritance

【Meet Hu Xuan】

In addition to the White Crane Liang, the King once again joined hands with Dunhuang to launch a new "Meet" series of skins. As the third skin launched by the king and the Dunhuang Research Institute, meeting Hu Xuan can be said to live up to expectations, bringing players a new round of Dunhuang culture display. This time, the king chose the Western dance that had appeared on the Dunhuang murals: the HuXuan Dance, and created a new skin for the mink cicada with this theme. EncounterIng Hu Xuan integrates the cultural elements of the Western Regions, Dunhuang and Tang Dynasty, with the intention of transferring the music and dance image of "Tang Yun Hu Feng" on the Dunhuang murals to the king, so that people can appreciate the appeal of Dunhuang art that still stands steadily after many years of wind and sand. Whether it is a non-drumming instrument wrapped in streamers, or a maiko costume matched with the HuXuan dance, hakama is a feature of exclusive Dunhuang culture, and in the encounter with Hu Xuan, there are more elements of restoring Dunhuang music and dance waiting for players to excavate.

"Glory of the King": Using digital IP as a pen, writing a new chapter in cultural inheritance

【Alpine Flowing Water】

At the sixth anniversary celebration, the king also prepared a skin "alpine flowing water" that linked traditional musical instruments. As the limited skin of the sixth anniversary of the king, zhuang zhou's alpine flowing water can be said to amaze many players. Directed by the China Academy of Arts, this skin brings out the classical charm of guqin and ink painting. The landscape paintings in the background of the animation in the bureau and the theme piano music of the skin were all invited by the professional teachers of the China Academy of Arts to co-create, trying to restore the classic traditional theme of high mountains and flowing waters meet Zhiyin. The artistic conception of the piano and the charm of the painting are the beauty of the traditional culture that the king wants to convey to the player through the skin of the mountain flowing water.

"Glory of the King": Using digital IP as a pen, writing a new chapter in cultural inheritance

Looking at the many traditional culture linkage skins launched by the king in 2021, it is not difficult to see that it wants to use the game as a carrier to show the traditional culture with deep connotations through a form that is more easily accepted by young people, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting and inheriting traditional culture. I hope that in the future, the king can use himself as a carrier to create more skins that integrate different traditional cultural themes, so that more people can feel the charm of traditional culture

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