Open the Dream of the Red Chamber Grand View Garden Pop-up Book.
Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client April 10 news (reporter Wan Jianhui correspondent Li Ran) "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the fictional World of the Grand View Garden, carrying a deep Red Chamber culture, is the focus of attention of the fans of the Red Chamber in the past. As the authoritative publisher of the "Four Masterpieces", the People's Literature Publishing House recently joined hands with Wang Wei, the "first person in China's pop-up book", to publish and list the Three-Dimensional Book of the Dream of the Red Chamber daguanyuan based on the famous painting of "Dream of the Red Chamber" painted by Sun Wen in the Qing Dynasty, so that the Grand View Garden jumped on the paper in front of readers.
In 1952, the People's Literature Publishing House published the classic masterpiece "Water Margin", which opened the prelude to the publication of the "Four Masterpieces". Now, 70 years later, the times are rushing forward, and the classics are still shining. Looking up at the starry sky of literature, the brightest stars, there must be Cao Xueqin and his "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Opening the three-dimensional book of the Dream of the Red Chamber Grand View Garden, three-dimensional characters and scenes suddenly appeared in front of the eyes. The story that happens in the Grand View Garden is not only constructed in the reader's mind, but also through sophisticated production technology, the story content is changed from text to picture, from flat to three-dimensional.
The Yangtze River Daily reporter learned that overseas, pop-up books are known as "books of craftsmanship" and have a history of more than 100 years. When the colorful images are combined with the exquisite movable mechanism, the moment the page is opened, the 3D "picture" that jumps out presents the visual sense of the theater, which can stimulate the reader's visual and tactile sense.
From 1995 to 1996, Wang Wei, the designer of the Red Chamber Grand View Garden, designed and published the first batch of three-dimensional books "Zodiac", "Zodiac Signs", "Animal World", "Three-dimensional Dinosaur World" and so on. In 2020, the design and production of CCTV Spring Festival Gala "Brilliant Pear Garden" four famous opera singing stage stereoscopic book props set, which is the first time that the art form of stereoscopic books has appeared on the Chinese film and television stage.
Wang Wei introduced that the three-dimensional book of "Dream of the Red Chamber" designed by him this time is based on the pictures of the Dream of the Red Chamber painted by Sun Wen in the Qing Dynasty. Sun Wen's complete book "Dream of the Red Chamber" has a total of 230 existing pictures, reproducing the main storyline and characters of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the form of paintings. The heart of the painting is a silk book, 43.3cm in length and 76.5cm in width, and is now in the Lushun Museum in Liaoning. In the first stage of the design of the Dream of the Red Chamber pop-up book, Wang Wei led the design team to fully analyze the "visual + space" elements in Sun Wen's famous paintings, the second stage fully extracted the "emotion + space" elements in the novel, that is, how to present the "Grand View Garden in everyone's heart", and the third stage presented the theoretical practice of "art + space", and finally realized the spatial integration of the Red Chamber Dream paper stereoscopic book.
In the Qing Dynasty, Sun Wen painted the famous painting "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Feng Ji, a famous writer and scholar, affirmed the publication of the Daguanyuan stereoscopic book, saying that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a precious literary wealth of our Chinese nation, it is a vast and rich literary work, and he is very happy to see that the People's Literature Publishing House has made a unique effort to reproduce various classic scenes and spaces in the novel in the form of a three-dimensional book, so that everyone can walk into the Grand View Garden with great interest and taste the "Dream of the Red Chamber" with great interest.
Zhang Qingshan, president of the China "Dream of the Red Chamber" Society, said, Where is the Grand View Garden?" What is the Grand View Garden of heaven and earth? Since the release of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Daguanyuan has become a youth world that people envy, especially young people. This pop-up book, modeled on the works of Qing Dynasty painter Sun Wen, uses a more approachable posture to show the architectural beauty of "Dream of the Red Chamber" to a wider readership, and constructs a cultural symbol of the Red Chamber that is closer to the current young people. (The picture in this article comes from the Humanities Society)
【Editor: Ding Fei】
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