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【Xinmin Evening News, Xinmin Network】Today, the Palace Museum officially launched the "Great Forbidden City Baby" series of picture books. This set of picture books is based on children's psychological characteristics and cognitive laws, and is written for children aged 3-8 years. A total of 12 volumes, 12 cultural relics of the Forbidden City tell their stories, leading children on 12 warm cultural trips.
A small glass slag bucket, originally thought it was a beautiful vase, only to learn that it was originally a "garbage basin" after using it. In the process of making friends, I got to know the glassware of Shui Cheng, pen holder, and glass zun, experienced the inner emotional changes of liking, hating, cheating, and growing, continuously improved my self-awareness, and finally became full of self-confidence, which is one of the 12 cultural relics short stories. Picture books will anthropomorphize real cultural relics, with wonderful and vivid pictures, fashionable and vivid colors, tell the history of cultural relics, production processes, circulation and changes, help cultivate children's self-cultivation, social skills, family and country feelings, enrich children's emotional experience and life experience, create a variety of parent-child interactive education opportunities for readers, exercise and improve children's comprehensive literacy, and establish children's correct values. Each book is also accompanied by an audio picture book drama, which more vividly interprets the emotional world of the protagonist.
Wang Xudong, president of the Palace Museum, said in his speech that the set of picture books, jointly produced by the Palace Museum and Yujian Culture, and published by tourism education publishing house, is the latest practical achievement of the creative transformation and innovative development of the palace museum's excellent traditional Chinese culture. The Palace Museum has a rich collection of cultural relics, and also shoulders the social responsibility and educational mission of inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The picture book is another masterpiece of the Palace Museum's creative transformation of the museum's academic achievements.
At the press conference, Guo Meixia from the Publicity department of the Palace Museum and Ding Haixiu of the Tourism Education Publishing House shared the history and publishing background of the book planning and creation. Introduce the creative concept, main content and value transmission of picture books, combined with the instruction manual attached to the book, and analyze the educational opportunities that this set of picture books brings to children readers at the level of knowledge, skills and values.
Through the audio theater, the authors of the picture book of the Palace Museum's Propaganda Department performed "The Little Gear Slipped Away" for the audience, leading everyone into one of the picture book stories themed with clocks and watches. During the performance, the authors transformed into characters in the picture book, telling the escape experience of the small gears with their voices behind the scenes, and displaying the mechanical special effects of the clocks on the stage screen, vividly reproducing the scene of the Forbidden City clocks "coming alive".
Zhang Rong, Guo Fuxiang and Wang Guangyao, three second-level research librarians of the Palace Museum, as experts in the field of glassware, clocks and ceramics, also took the stage to share with the audience, and they look forward to making more cross-border integration attempts in the future to make more cultural relics of the Forbidden City "alive". The press conference also invited loyal young fans of the Palace Museum to accept book donations from guests on the spot.
It is reported that the children's picture book of "The Great Forbidden City Baby" will be listed on major platforms such as Jingdong, Dangdang, Tmall, Douyin, and other major platforms as a school gift for children. The Forbidden City said that the publication of the "Great Forbidden City Baby" series of picture books is an excellent case of the Palace Museum telling the story of the Forbidden City collection and providing learning opportunities for the majority of children's audiences, hoping that through the vivid and interesting form of picture books, the excellent traditional Chinese culture will take root in the hearts of children and provide inexhaustible motivation for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. (Xinmin Evening News reporter in Beijing, Du Yuao)