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The Legend of Lotus Spring
Temple of Flower Goddess
Temple door opens with a
mouse click. Walk forward. Turn left or right to walk around the dragon screen
in order to reach the door behind it.
Through this door, you
reach the temple courtyard. You can see the main temple building and two side
buildings.
Proceed straight ahead from
the doorway, cross the courtyard, and enter the main temple building. Alternatively,
you may circumnavigate the courtyard along a gallery that connects this
courtyard from buildings.
Objects with interactivity
in the temple are: matchbox, lamp, candle and incense, bell, drum, water pot,
sprinkler and the twelve pots of flowers in front of each flower goddess.
Clicking on the matchbox
will open the matchbox; clicking again will light the match. The matchbox will
appear in inventory after clicking on it. With the match as cursor, you can
light the table lamp, walk around to stand in front of the table, and light the
candle and incense. After all candles and incense are lit, you will trigger an
animation and learn part of the story between Lotus Spring and Xian Feng, in
which Xian Feng give Lotus Spring two pearls as gifts.
The ladle and sprinkler are
next to the drum stand. Clicking on the chicken-shaped bronze sprinkler will
pick it up and then replace the China Doll cursor. You can walk left and then
forward to get close to those flower pots and water them. You will notice the
pot is empty of water. Click on the ladle beside the sprinkler; water is ladled
into the sprinkler.
Water each of the twelve
flowers, enjoy the animations, and learn some legendary stories. (Go to the
book in inventory.)
After leaving the main
temple building, go back to the courtyard and leave the temple courtyard
through building on the left.
Pavilion of Lotus Scent
After leaving the temple
courtyard, turn left and follow pathway. You will see a deer and butterfly. Follow
them; pass through a small valley and see another pathway along the riverbank. Follow
the turtle to reach the Pavilion of Lotus Scent.
This pavilion is a square
building. There is a telescope through which you can see the animation of one
of the four most famous legends in Chinese culture: Cowboy and Goddess. This
legend brought the Chinese the Valentine's Day tradition.
There is a needle and
thread on the stool and a spider box on the table. By picking up the needle and
dropping it on the water bowl, you will activate the animation showing Lotus
Spring and Xian Feng celebrating July 7th the Chinese Valentine's Day. The
painting and calligraphy work on the wall, as well as the objects in the coach,
can be viewed close up by clicking on them.
After leaving the pavilion,
turn left and follow the stone path to the Stone Boat.
Stone Boat
The Stone Boat has two
floors. On the first floor, interactive objects include the lunch box, the
carved lotus fish on the stone table, the fish food, and the fish bowl.
There are two hallways
beside the stairs leading to the front of the boat. There is a lunch box
sitting on a long stone table in the middle of the boat. You can open the box
and take each food tray out by clicking on it.
You must remember the order
of the food tray layers so that you can put them back in the correct order
before you can move on.
At the front end of the
boat, there is a bowl of fish food and a glass fish bowl with a goldfish. Pick
up the fish food, proceed to edge of the boat and drop the fish food in the
pond. Fish will swim over to eat the food. While doing this, you are also
collecting the fish food (in inventory) at the same time for use in later
sites. Clicking on the lotus fish on the table will activate an animation on
how Lotus Spring was able to carve fishes out of lotus roots and magically
animate them in the pond.
The stairs will lead you to
the second floor, where you will see bird in a cage and cranes flying away. The
surrounding garden views from a high viewpoint are spectacular.
Royal Chamber
Follow the path off the
bridge from the Stone Boat and go to the building side entrance, a small
opening in the cement blocks. In front of the Royal Chamber there is a small
lotus pond with a water fountain that becomes louder as you walk towards it.
This building is divided
into three sections: east room, west room, and middle room.
There is a bed in front of
which there are two candles on a stand. In order to watch the related animated
episode, the candles must be lit using the matches in inventory (collected at
first location).
The makeup dresser has
interactivity. There is a closet in which Xian Feng and Lotus Spring's clothes
are stored. Look inside.
In front of the window, a
parrot swings back and forth on a stand. On the other side, there is a table on
which there are three objects: a treasure pot, an ivory box, and a flowerpot.
Click on the treasure pot;
one lotus seed pops out. Click on the lotus seed to see how Lotus Spring
performs her marriage tradition. Keep referring to the Diary to learn the story
as you see the animations.
The box contains one of the
two pearls given to Lotus Spring by Xian Feng at the first location. Click on
the pearl. Later, click the parrot.
Game Room
After leaving the Royal
Chamber, turn right and follow the building paths. Pass through a moon-shaped
door and enter the yard in front of the game room. Just before the archway is a
well with a brief animation.
There is a peacock in the
middle of the yard looking for food. Take some fish food from your inventory and
feed the peacock. It will thank you with its beautiful feathers.
Turn right, walk up the
steps, and enter the game room. In the middle of the room there is the Game of
the Flower Goddess. Click on the dice in the bowl. After the roll of the dice,
the number yielded will decide which statue will be selected. Pick the selected
goddess statue with your mouse. You will see an animation. Play and read the
Diary to learn the goddess stories and names.
There is a Kang bed. On the
Kang table, there is a set of Go game. You must get on the Kang bed to reach
around the Kang table to discover the game manual in order to trigger the
animation and story.
Painting Studio
The Game Room has two
doors: front and back. You can leave the room from either door and follow the
path or the gallery to Lotus Spring's painting studio.
The painting studio is a
two-story building. The first floor is an art gallery, and the second floor is
where Lotus Spring paints. The gallery is arranged like a maze. On the wall to
the right of the door (if entered via the peacock), one painting shows the top
view of gallery layout, which helps you get around the gallery.
In the middle of the
gallery, there is the statue of the Patron Saint of Painters. Find the statue
and grab the magic pen in his hand and put in inventory. After you get the
magic pen, find the door to the stairs leading to the second floor.
On the second floor, there
is one painting desk in front of the window. On the desk, there is one painting
done by Lotus Spring. Above the window is one winter scenery painting. Clicking
on both paintings using the magic pen will activate animations.
There are many paint boxes
on the desk. Clicking in any one of the boxes using the magic pen will enable
you to paint on a piece of white paper.
There is one bowl of
paintings by Lotus Spring by the bookshelf near the door. Click the rolls to
see the paintings.
After you come downstairs,
find your way in the gallery to reach the back door, which leads you outside of
the studio to other places in the garden. (This is a maze, but the directions
are again seen in the overhead view to the right of the front door as you first
walk in from the peacock's playground.)
Reading Room
After leaving the painting
studio, follow the gallery, to get to the reading room, first building on the
left.
To your left is one short
Kang bed on which a set of incense burner is placed. Approach the burner set
and get around the table. Clicking on the burner will activate an animation.
Beside the Kang bed, there
is a seismograph with eight dragons holding eight golden balls in their mouths.
Clicking on the golden balls will trigger the balls to fall into the frogs'
mouths.
Against the right wall of
the room, there is a large bookshelf. In front of the bookshelf is a writing
desk and an armed chair. On the desk, there are some scattered paper pieces to
the left and an armillary Sphere to the right. Walk around the table and sit in
the chair and access the torn paper pieces. Clicking on the paper pieces will
let you piece them together into a complete sheet of paper, with a poem written
on it. Click on the sheet; you will be able to learn the story about this poem.
Click on the armillary sphere and see how it operates.
Music Room
Adjacent to the Reading
Room (walk to the left) is where Lotus Spring plays music.
Inside the building, there
is a screen to the right. Behind the screen are many musical instruments that
Lotus Spring played. In front of the window is a 25-string zither. By its side,
a large cabinet along the west wall contains ten different musical instruments:
Xun, Bamboo Flute, Xiao, Sheng, Pai Xiao, Yun Luo, Pi Pa, Yue Qin, Er Hu, Kong
Hou. Clicking on any one of these instruments will let you listen to a famous
piece played with this instrument.
To the left, there is a
very quiet and secluded room where Lotus Spring sat and played the Qin. On the
Qin platform, there is a Qin with one broken string. Walk onto the platform and
position yourself to face the Qin. Clicking on it will activate an animation.
On the Kang bed facing the
platform, there is the Score of Phoenix and a green jade tablet. These two
objects are also interactive. The Score shows you what a Chinese ancient music
score looks like, and the jade tablet tells you the secret behind it.
Dining Room
After leaving the Music
Room, you will see a two-story building on the left. This is the Dining Room. Walk
along the path and through an octagonal brick door, then along the walkway
around the building to reach the front doors to the building.
The first floor is for
resting and meeting. Proceed to the left back corner of the room to open a
secret door behind the screen. The staircase behind the door leads upstairs. After
getting upstairs, walk around to the front door.
The upstairs is a dining
room. In the center, there is a large dining table with many dishes. Find the
jade wine pot on the table and click on it. This will trigger one episode of
the story.
Some of the other objects
in the room are also interactive, such as the Buddha box, the dessert pots,
etc.
The Path
The garden path continues
after the dinning room. You will come across the waterfall. The stone steps are
for you to cross the water. On one of the steps, turn left and see the
waterfall in motion, and a large lotus flower flows down with the water.
After the waterfall, you
will pass by a flower grave and see the faded illusions of Lotus Spring burying
flowers. It will start to rain when you are near the grave.
Broken Bridge
At the end of the path is a
broken bridge without wooden boards. You have to cross the river without using
the bridge. There is a path leading down to the water by the bridge. When you
are close to the water, the carp Lotus Spring released at the Stone Boat will
swim over and wait to be fed. Using the spacebar to access your treasure bag,
pick some fish food from inventory, and feed the carp. The carp will build a
lotus leaf bridge for you to cross the water.
Swing
After crossing the river,
follow the path, which leads you to the top of the hill. On the hill, there is
a pavilion. Inside the pavilion a Ju lies on the ground. Clicking on it will
activate an animation.
By the pavilion, there is a
swing. At a particular angle, you will see, from Xian Feng emperor's mind, the
illusion of Lotus Spring on the swing.
Buddhist Temple
The path down the hill
leads you to a Buddhist temple at the bottom of the hill.
Enter the temple through
the backdoor. You will see Lotus Spring's unreal images of worshiping the
Buddha. At one end of the temple, a small table stands against the wall. On the
table there is a tube of bamboo fortune sticks and a stick book.
Check out the stick that
lies on the table, which was picked by Lotus Spring. The stick will take you to
the corresponding page in the stick book based on the stick number. The page
explains to you if the stick is good or bad.
Click on the bamboo stick
tube; a stick will jump out randomly, then you can read the explanation of your
stick in the book.
Knitting Room
Leave the temple from the
front doors. Walk ahead, to arrive at the back door of the main chamber of Lian
Xi Le Chu. Before you enter the door, turn right and walk straight along the
gallery to a bamboo gate. At the doorstep, turn left to face the door and push
it open.
You will see Lotus Spring
sitting on a stool in the room to your right and making paper cuts. To your
left is a room where Lotus Spring did embroidery. On the stand, there is one
piece of handkerchief with unfinished embroidery. Use the sewing needle you
collected in inventory to finish the embroidery.
Main Chamber
Return to the backdoor to
the main chamber of Lian Xi Le Chu, Shen Xiu Si Yong. Open the door; you will
be facing the back of a large screen. Walk around it.
The chamber is quite large
and is divided into five sections. The main section in the center has a formal
imperial throne arrangement.
To the right, there are two
small sections. The first is a resting place with chairs and a tea table. On
the opposite side, there is a Chinese herb cabinet, beside which there is a
long table with grinding tools. You can see Lotus Spring grinding medicine.
To the right, facing you,
there is one large treasure cabinet. This cabinet is a secret door. Use the
flower goddess statue you collected from the Go game and put it into the empty
slot in the cabinet. The cabinet will separate, and the door will open. Inside
is a round hall, where a marble statue of Lotus Spring use to stand. Now the
statue is broken into pieces on the ground. Use the cursor to pick up the
pieces and assemble them. Under the last piece you will find a key.
Pick up the key and go to
the other side of the chamber. Open the door to Lotus Spring's bedroom; you
will see her unreal images of brushing hair and images of her opening the
cabinet on the bed.
Get onto the bed and use
the key to open the cabinet; you will find the second pearl that Xian Feng gave
Lotus Spring. Click on the pearl to activate an animation.
Water Gallery
After leaving the main
chamber from the front door, you are in the court yard. It is evening. Turn
left and walk along the gallery, which will lead you to a square gallery over
the water. You will see Lotus Spring walking in front of you, enjoying the
lotus pond under moonlight. Follow Lotus Spring and enter a three-section
building on the south side of the gallery. To the right is a small dining table
with some food. To the right is the setup for worshiping the moon. There is one
lotus-shaped lamp on the table, which you can light up with the match you have
collected. Enjoy our favorite animation.
Open Pavilion
Leave the gallery over
water through a door in the middle of the gallery. The door is connected to a
stone pathway in front of the main chamber. Walk to the middle of the pathway
and turn left, where you will see a pair of "married trees" and one
open pavilion in the water beyond the trees.
In the center of the open pavilion there is a sitting bed, on which the handkerchief that Xian Feng emperor gave Lotus Spring. Walk around the sitting bed and get close to pick up the handkerchief. Enjoy the final animation and finishing your Dreams of Lotus Spring book.