Chinese Levels
Poetry stresses artistic conception. You should use the artistic conception of poetry as a clue to transform "poetry" and "painting" into each other, complete the incomplete picture and poetry, and form a harmonious and complete relationship between poetry and painting, so as to deepen the understanding of poetry.
Type-1: Complete paintings by using words in poems
O Geese by Luo Binwang
O geese, O geese, O geese!
You crane your neck and sing to sky your song sweet.
Your white feathers float on green water with ease.
You swim through clear waters with your red-webbed feet.
In this level, after reading the poem, you will detect what is empty in the painting (colors of the geese, feet and water) and then drag the Chinese characters that describe the missing parts of the picture (white, green and red) to the illustration.
Type-2: Complete poems by using items in paintings
The Folk Song of Tz'u Le (Handed down from the North-Dynasty)
By the side of the rill,
At the foot of the hill,
The grassland stretches' neath the firmament tranquil.
The boundless grassland lies
Beneath the boundless blue skies.
When the winds blow
And grass bends low,
My sheep and cattle will emerge before your eyes.
For example, in this level, you will find missing characters in the poem. You should find these missing items in the painting by understanding the poems meaning.
The missing items are sheep and cattle, which emerge when the winds blow, and the grass bends low. So only when you drag the character winds to the hill and see the grass bends will the sheep and cattle show up. After that, you can drag the sheep and cattle to the left blank in the poem, and you will see the characters sheep and cattle show up.
This level is a little bit hard because other than simply dragging items that already exist in the painting, players should understand the dynamic process of the poem and simulate it before they find the missing objects.
Type-3: Complete poems and paintings to simulate the poem plot
Sympathy for the peasants by Li Shen
Each seed when sown in spring,
will make autumn yields high.
What will fertile fields bring?
Of hunger peasants die.
The level Sympathy for the peasants expresses extremely directly the deep meaning of the poem that even though the peasants had lots of yields, they still died of hunger due to the governments squeezing.
You should drag seeds to the fields and wait for them to grow as rice. Then, drag the rice to the blank of the poem. But now, the puzzle is not figured out, as there are still two blurred characters.
In the meantime, you will see the landlord asked the peasants to hand in all his yields, and you have to drag all the rice to the officers place regardless of how miserably the peasant begged.
