China News Service, Beijing, February 25th (Reporter Gao Kai) Zhoukoudian, the site of ancient humans 700,000 years ago, the magnificent Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang more than 2,000 years ago, the mysterious Mogao Grottoes more than 1,000 years ago, and the magnificent Forbidden City more than 600 years ago... In the recently released picture book "World Heritage for Children", Zhang Rong, an expert in cultural heritage protection, put together a condensed ancient Chinese history for children through timelines and type clues.
At the reader sharing meeting held a few days ago in "World Heritage for Children", Zhang Rong said frankly that the humanities and history picture books on the market that introduce world heritage are mainly foreign countries, such as introducing ancient Rome, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, etc., while There are very few books that specifically introduce China's world heritage.
"From this I came up with an idea. I wanted to write a set of books for my daughter to let her know about my work and China's rich world heritage." Zhang Rong said, "This set of books is developed from the perspective of children. Telling is a set of books that are really written for children."
"World Heritage for Children" takes the timeline as the axis, selects 11 world-famous and most representative Chinese world heritage sites, through hundreds of exquisite cultural relics, hundreds of historical and cultural knowledge points, thousands of pictures The exquisite hand-painted illustrations transform the history hidden in the text into a vivid and vivid panoramic picture scroll, and string together a condensed ancient Chinese history for children.
"The selection of these 11 cultural relics has been carefully designed," Zhang Rong said, from Zhoukoudian 700,000 years ago, to Yinxu more than 3,000 years ago, to the Great Wall, Terracotta Army, Silk Road, and Grand Canal more than 2,000 years ago. From the Mogao Grottoes more than 1,000 years ago, the Forbidden City more than 600 years ago, to Gulangyu Island in modern times, we deliberately selected representative world heritage sites of different periods and types of cultural heritage to let children feel the charm of Chinese civilization.
Zhang Rong said, "The 11 major heritages selected in this book actually represent the types of world cultural heritage, and when telling a world heritage, it will also briefly introduce the associated world heritage in China and even other countries to form a comprehensive cultural heritage. For example, when it comes to Mount Tai, the representative of the "double heritage", all the world heritages of famous mountains in China will be involved; I will also introduce Chengde Mountain Resort, Summer Palace, etc. In addition, Zhoukoudian, Yin Ruins, Terracotta Warriors and Horses are representatives of archaeological heritage, Gulangyu Island is a representative of historical towns, the Silk Road is a representative of line heritage, and the Grand Canal is a representative of canal heritage. West Lake is a representative of the cultural landscape."
In terms of logical arrangement and content construction, "World Heritage for Children" follows children's common learning and reading rules.
For example, a large number of hand-painted scene diagrams and rich illustrations are used to present intuitively, so that children can have a sense of time and space when reading; the relevant knowledge of various subjects that children come into contact with in the classroom is integrated into the book, such as Ancient poems, stories of historical figures, characteristics of traditional costumes, traditional architectural styles and crafts, etc.
It is reported that "World Heritage for Children" consists of 4 volumes, namely "World Heritage for Children: Origin Zhoukoudian Yin Ruins", "World Heritage for Children: Mount Tai, Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors" and "World Heritage for Children". Heritage: Silk Road Mogao Grottoes Grand Canal" "World Heritage for Children: West Lake Forbidden City Gulangyu Island".
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