AesthetiCell-Text Book Redesign Project
This is part of a project aims to redesign textbooks for elementary school kids in Taiwan. I illustrated a story 'Empty City' from The Three Kingdoms, ancient Chinese classics literature with Chinese Ink and rice paper with a mondern twist.
The story brief
During the period of the Three Kingdoms of China,ZhuGeLiang,the prime-minister of Shu tried to conquer the northern country of Wei.During a battle,SiMaYi,the general of the Wei's troops tried to kill ZhuGeLiang by bringing 150 thousand troops on a battle against the Shu's territory of Xi City,or East city.After ZhuGeLiang and his troops heard about it,his troops became frightened and thought they were all doomed,since they only had 5000soldiers,and half was out carrying food for the army.But ZhuGeLiang told them to not panic and made out a plan against SiMaYi.
Firstly,he told the troops to open the gates of the city,secondly,he told some of his soldier to pretend they are normal civilians,cleaning up the dirt in front of the city.Lastly,he ordered his troops to not make a sound.
When SiMaYi arrived to the city,ZhuGeLiang went high up to the top of the city wall and started playing the Chinese instrument of gu-zhen.SiMaYi thought this was weird,and thought it would be dangerous to go in the city,because he thoughy there might be some troop waiting to attack them in the city,and it was a trick of ZhuGeLiang.
So he left the city and then later on,when he came back to the city again,the civilians told him about how he was tricked by ZhuGeLiang.He felt regret for not attacking the city.
Firstly,he told the troops to open the gates of the city,secondly,he told some of his soldier to pretend they are normal civilians,cleaning up the dirt in front of the city.Lastly,he ordered his troops to not make a sound.
When SiMaYi arrived to the city,ZhuGeLiang went high up to the top of the city wall and started playing the Chinese instrument of gu-zhen.SiMaYi thought this was weird,and thought it would be dangerous to go in the city,because he thoughy there might be some troop waiting to attack them in the city,and it was a trick of ZhuGeLiang.
So he left the city and then later on,when he came back to the city again,the civilians told him about how he was tricked by ZhuGeLiang.He felt regret for not attacking the city.
Ancient troop, a page from Textbook Project
5th Graders comparing their new text books with the old ones.
