The Forbidden City's second puzzle book "Golden List Title" is published with more than 100 hardcore knowledge points to interact with readers

  China News Service, Beijing, May 17 (Reporter Ying Ni) Following the "Mystery Palace · Ruyi Linlang Book", the Forbidden City's second puzzle book "Mystery Palace · Gold List Title" (referred to as "Mystery Palace 2") has just appeared. As one of the special planning activities for "5.18 International Museum Day", a live broadcast of "Reading the Forbidden City's" Mystery Palace "-" Mystery Palace · Gold List Title "Online Book Sharing Meeting" will be held at the Forbidden Academy in the Palace Museum.

  At the end of 2018, the Forbidden City Publishing House and the Mystery House jointly released a "treasure hunt book"-"Mystery Palace · Ruyi Linlang Book", this is the first creative interactive puzzle book published by the Forbidden City, a unique physical threaded book + mobile phone Game-style interaction not only innovates the reader's reading experience, but also unlocks the cultural and historical knowledge of the Forbidden City from different sides, which has received enthusiastic attention from readers. More than a year after its listing, Douban scored 9.1, and even became a "different tour guide" for many people to visit the Forbidden City.

"Mystery · Golden List Title" integrates the innovative integration of paper books, props and mobile APP new experiences into one for publishing house 

  In May of this year, the current book and APP game of "Mystery Palace 2" appeared on schedule as expected by many readers, and received high praise and good reputation from readers.

  In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the highest-level examination of the Imperial Examination, "Dian Shi", was held in the Taihe Hall and Baohe Hall of the Forbidden City. "Mystery Palace 2" is based on the creation of the largest fraud in the Imperial Examination in the eighth year of Xianfeng (1858) in the history of the Qing Dynasty, allowing readers to become a Qing detective to personally detect this major incident of imperial fraud.

  "Mystery Palace 2" continues the interactive reading experience of the "Mystery Palace" series of wire-bound books + accompanying accessories + APP, which cleverly integrates the cultural relics, historical files, and puzzle solving methods of the Palace Museum, and also combines real history and literary creation. Ingeniously blend into one.

  Wang Zhiwei, the responsible editor of "Mystery Palace 2" and the director of the Palace History Editing Office of the Palace Museum, introduced that during the creation of "Mystery Palace 2", the creative team referred to a large number of official books, archives and cultural relics. For example, the props in the book-the test of ink rolls in Shuntian Township in Wuwunian, faithfully restored the relevant systems of the imperial examination papers at that time, such as the seal, promotion and five-color pens.

  The creative team also found 65 cases related to the case from the vast archives, and even found the autographs of the people involved in the case more than 160 years ago, and selected some of them to be restored in "Mystery Palace 2".

  Other props in the book, such as the Xianfeng Yuanbao, the Qingqing banknotes, and the sketch map of the capital, are restored after detailed examination. The creative team also referred to ancient forensic monographs such as The Collection of Injustices, The Ping Injustices, and the Detailed Explanation of Injustices, and strived to design the case-solving process with a true ancient reconnaissance perspective and thinking.

  Unlike traditional books, when reading "Mystery 2", readers need to use their brains to solve puzzles and reason about the truth. For example, the "DIY paper model" in the book needs to build a crime scene-Kuiguang Temple, and then use its spatial structure and perspective to solve the mystery. This paper model has a Qing Dynasty style house to make architectural hot samples. Both visual sense.

  Integrating historical and cultural knowledge with the game process is a consistent feature of the "Mystery" series. In the "Mystery 2", more than one hundred "hard core" knowledge entries have been prepared for everyone.

Photo courtesy of the props publisher in "Mystery · Golden List Title" 

  In addition to the plot play, in the production process, the main body of the book uses the antique craft of four-hole line book. Each book is made by a craftsman who pierces the needle and leads, and then wraps the book corner with silk cloth.

  Currently, "Mystery Palace 2" has been launched in the flagship store of the Palace Museum. The live broadcast from 14:00 to 15:30 in the afternoon of the 18th will be broadcast on the official accounts of the Forbidden City Press on Weibo and Douyin, as well as the Central Broadcasting and Television Station, Central Broadcasting and Television Arts Voice, and Central Video. At that time, Wang Zhiwei and the creative team will It was a story about how to explore and detect the imperial examinations that shocked the government and the people in Xianfeng. (Finish)