Popular Tencent game engages in Chinese culture promotion
- By Zhang Jiaqi
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E-mail China.org.cn, January 5, 2018
"Wang Zhe Rong Yao" (dubbed as Arena of Valor in the American version), a Tencent online game sweeping the country since its debut in November 2015 attracting several hundred million registered players, has become increasingly active in promoting Chinese culture more broadly.
The Wang Zhe History Classes with a theme of "Building up Cultural Confidence and Spreading a New Era Voice" is one of the moves supported by the game team in promoting Chinese culture.
The series of activities sponsored by the Online Video Center of the Central Committee of the Communist Young League invited experts and scholars in Chinese culture, including historians, writers, dramatists and calligraphers, to hold classes in related topics. Its latest session at Peking University on Jan. 4 involved a poetry reading session, and a class on traditional Chinese festivals by Zhang Bo, deputy secretary general and executive council member of the China Folklore Society.
The event attracted many people from the university as well as outside, among which many were young people. Typical was 29-year-old Chu Chen, working as an HR of a privately-owned enterprise, who took a day off for the activity.
Chu was stunned by the poetry reading at the beginning of the class by five young university students. With the character "Jenghiz (Genghis) Khan" in the game on screen and a game scene as the background, the students each read a sentence of a poem depicting him written by Chairman Mao Zedong.
"It is very different from the other ways of getting access to the ancient poetry, and gives me a more overwhelming visual and cultural experience," said Chu excitedly.
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