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In 2001, a movie called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released everywhere, and Warner's excellent production perfectly presented J.K. Rowling's grand wizarding world, making this story of magic and adventure popular all over the world, and it is still a hotly discussed series.
In 2000, the Harry Potter series came to China, and the first three books published at the same time opened the door for Chinese readers to enter Hogwarts, and the subsequent release of films further boosted the sales of subsequent works in China.
However, "the good times are not long", and although the sequels to the film released in the future have boosted the sales of the Harry Potter series of books to varying degrees, they have never been able to surpass another foreign-language novel series--- "Adventure Tigers".
Since the introduction of the series to China in 2002, it has been on the Chinese children's best-seller list with the attitude of an off-string arrow, selling more than 8 million copies in the first three years of release alone, breaking the record of 7 million copies created by the "Harry Potter" series in China, and after the release of the three series, the cumulative sales have reached a staggering 36 million copies, which has become the collective memory of countless post-90s generations
At that time, as long as there were books for sale, there would definitely be the shadow of "Adventure Tigers"; in each class, there were always one or two local tycoons who could collect the whole series and borrow the whole class to read it.
It's just a pity that there are too many monks and porridge, and even if the local students generously bring books to the school, it is impossible for every student to feel the excitement of the story at the first time.
So some anxious students will run to the big and small bookstores "white prostitute" books at the first time after school, and I am one of them.
I vaguely remember that the "White Prostitution Party" at that time also had to be rushed to be able to become one, after all, there were only a few copies of the "Adventure Tiger Team" placed in the bookstore, and if the book was late because the teacher dragged the hall or was on duty, the book would have been taken away by the classmates who arrived first, and they were sitting in the aisle between the bookshelves looking at it beautifully.
If you are a "social bull fork", you can get close to these people and rub books, and over time, you can make a friend who can read and communicate together;
Unfortunately, I am a deep social terrorist, and every time I arrive late, I can only envy those students who can watch "Adventure Tigers".
Oh, I'm not the only one looking at me from afar, the clerks of the bookstore also pay close attention to this group of white prostitutes, after all, every time they read a book here, the bookstore loses a business.
In order to stop the white prostitute is actually very simple, you only need to take out the "decryption card" attached to the book, because this small plastic card is the key prop for solving the puzzles of this series of books, without it, the fun of the whole book may be less than half.
Unfortunately, "there are countermeasures under the policy", even if the clerk extracts the "soul" of the book, some anxious young readers still can't resist the temptation of the story, either borrowing someone else's decryption card, or relying on their own reasoning, and they have to finish the entire series.
Whether it is begging parents to buy for themselves, or waiting for the alms of local tycoons, or running to the bookstore to prostitute... Almost every post-90s person has a similar memory of "Adventure Tigers" in their minds.
But it, like most of the toys that accompany our childhood, suddenly disappears at some stage of our growth, like the story in the book, leaving too many puzzles.
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"Adventure Tigers" is an adventure/mystery novel and children's literature written by Austrian writer Thomas Brzeziner, which tells the story of the "Adventure Tiger Team" composed of three good friends with different personalities and inseparable personalities, who are determined as a tiger, Luke who is as shrewd as a tiger, and Patrick who are brave as tigers, and go around the world to solve puzzles.
Of course, the premise of a novel to sell well is that readers can raise interest to understand the story, and for foreign-language novels such as "Adventure Tigers", the introduction and translation link is the premise of best-selling.
Regarding the introduction, there are two more popular sayings on the Internet at present, one is that the hot sales of the "Harry Potter" series in China have allowed domestic publishers to see the market of the "three-person protagonist group", and "Adventure Tigers", as an "adventure novel", is also more in line with the reading habits of the Chinese people;
The second is that the protagonist's stronghold is located in the basement of a Chinese restaurant called "Golden Tiger Restaurant", a subtle Chinese element that has also attracted the attention of the reviewers.
In terms of translation, because many of the puzzles are attached to foreign languages, in order to retain the decryption link and maintain the readability of the story, the workers at that time were racking their brains in the localization of the book.
For example, in the original work, the author originally used errors in German writing to elicit the letter writer's distress message, and when these letters were translated into Chinese, it was naturally difficult to follow the original decryption method. Therefore, domestic translators use Chinese harmonics as the key information for decryption, ensuring that domestic audiences can smoothly interpret the information and promote the development of the story while retaining the original meaning as much as possible.
It is the efforts of these domestic publishers that have made the series of books "Adventure Tiger Team" smoothly enter the Chinese market and open its legendary sales road.
If the secret base is the reason why "Little Tigers" was able to introduce china, then the "decryption card" is the key to its popularity.
Usually, the way speculative fiction reveals the mystery is to tell and restore through the mouth of the character (usually the protagonist), and the reader only observes the whole process as a "God perspective".
But such a lengthy text is difficult to arouse the interest of young readers, so Thomas inserts the corresponding pictures in the book, and the reader needs to fit the corresponding parts of the "decryption card" to the picture, so that the hints or answers to the mystery will be revealed in order to continue to promote the development of the story.
Before the decryption card is placed, there are only vague scatters on the page.
After putting on the decryption card, the clear text jumped on the paper.
In fact, the way to decrypt the card is to take advantage of the so-called "Mohr stripe phenomenon", an optical phenomenon first discovered by French researchers Mohr in the 18th century.
In principle, this is the visual result of two lines or objects interfering at a constant angle and frequency, when the human eye can not distinguish between two things, we can only see the interference pattern, and this pattern is the so-called Mohr stripe.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, as long as you know that similar things have always existed in our lives.
Such as the "eye-catching feeling" produced by striped clothing; also like some beautifully designed packaging, when the user pulls out and loads the box, the various elements of the cover will also move with it, and this is the so-called raster animation.
Not only that, the once popular 3D cards actually use the same optical principles, when the user shakes to different angles, the picture will show different images, and this thing can also be said to be the 3D image enlightenment of the post-90s.
It can be said that it is this kind of hands-on puzzle solving that makes the reader change from a "bystander" to a "participant" (that is, the fourth member of the "Little Tiger Team"), which greatly arouses the reader's interest and pride. So "Adventure Tigers" took only 3 years to complete the transcendence of Harry Potter.
It is worth mentioning that "Adventure Tiger Team" has also become a reference to the domestic children's adventure novel "Charles IX", which has become a treasure book after 00 with the continuation of the "interactive decryption game", and the sales of the whole volume have already exceeded tens of millions.
With the decryption card, the reader can assist the protagonist group to find the key information of the decryption, or a small action of the character, or a small object in the corner, and when all the clues are concentrated to point to a character, you will find that the various scary ghosts mentioned earlier are artificial horrors.
The so-called ghost plane is actually just a remote control plane, the snow monster that appears in the ice and snow is actually just someone playing a movie, and the ghost monster running on the court is actually just a person wearing a prop suit walking around...
With its appalling beginnings, thrilling decryption process, and scientific events, the story structure of Tigers in Adventure bears some resemblance to That of Into Science.
It is true that watching "Adventure Tigers" now, you can easily find logical loopholes, but this is not the author's carelessness in setting up the plot, but the whole time he has adhered to the category of "children's literature", by setting suspense, inducing readers to think, so that they can see everything with a scientific eye.
Unfortunately, this treasure of children's books that accompanied the growth of the post-90s generation and stimulated the Chinese children's book market gradually disappeared around 2010, and many people speculated that the reason may be that there was a distorted historical plot in the original work.
There are 11 volumes of the original "Adventure Tiger Team" in foreign languages, but only 10 copies have been introduced to China, and the book that was left behind is "Thousand Dragon Mountain" with China as the story stage; subsequently, the book was also made into the only movie of "Adventure Tiger Team: Journey to Longshan".
The story is based on the Ming Dynasty's Immortal Medicine Center, which is still about the adventures of the Little Tigers, and the reason why the author wants to write a "Chinese story" is also because of the focus on the Chinese market.
But unfortunately, Western creators always have difficulty in writing Chinese stories to get rid of certain stereotypes, in "Thousand Dragon Mountain", Thomas added a lot of Western stereotypes of China, and even seriously distorted the history of the Ming Dynasty, which not only led to the book and its films were not introduced to China, but even the subsequent sales were affected to a certain extent.
Of course, stereotypes as a clichéd problem, not all blamed on the author, for a long time, China's cultural export has been in a weak stage, making it difficult for some foreigners who attach importance to the Chinese market and love Chinese culture to fully understand the real Chinese culture.
Fortunately, Thomas is a Western author who truly values and actively learns Chinese culture. In September this year, he set up his own account on Station B and began to communicate with Chinese readers.
He will taste mooncakes, but also share the small details of the book, I believe that as Thomas and the reader's two-way communication deepens, his stereotype of China will gradually dissipate, perhaps in his future works, we can see a different China.
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For the post-90s generation, a childhood without "Adventure Tiger Team" is like "Adventure Tiger Team" without a decryption card, as if it has lost its soul.
It is like a teacher, watching over our growth at some point in our lives, teaching us courage, wisdom and science, but at the same time it is limited to that.
After growing up, we have moved to a higher stage, and we have long been able to look at the things around us with a more cautious and dialectical eye.
Just looking back at "Adventure Tigers" and can't help but sigh that we have been reckless, laughed, and frightened with three little adventurers, and traveled all over the world in the fantasy space together, which is exclusive to childhood.