Lotus Spring, Emperor Xian Feng's most tender and beloved flower, is dead. Sticky, angry, confused and ultimately broken hearted, he journeys to the place of their love, Lotus Haven (Lian Xi Le Chu), one tiny corner in the vast complex if Imperial Gardens - Yuan Ming Yuan.
She was one of the beautiful Han girls of the south, forbidden in the Imperial city of the ruling Man race. Because of her admiration for lotus flowers, he renamed her Lotus Spring and kept her in a secluded lotus garden.
But Empress Ci Xi was jealous and found some excuse to place Lotus Spring under house arrest on an isolated island in the middle of that very same lotus garden, preventing the lovers from meeting.
After months of loneliness and despair, Lotus Spring drowned herself in the pond, her body mingling with the lotus roots in the mud, her spirit wafting away on the breeze like their ephemeral scent.
The Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brigthness) was a Chinese Imperail garden built during the Qing Dynasty. The garden spanned eight hundred and seventy acres of imperial treasure collecting and was indeed Chinese history's most magnificient garden. Unfortunately, it was devasted by fire in 1860 during the Second Opium War.
LOTUS SPRING CD-ROM starts with an animation of Xian Feng approaching Lotus Haven by boat. Then, at the landing site, you gain interactive control and explore the garden with the mouse. You will now help Emperor Xian Feng journeys to discover the hounting secret of Lotus Spring.....
- More than 7 Acres of Palace, Temples and garden available
- 30 interiors rebuilt as the original ones
- Database featuring more than 100 Chinese artifacts, and Chinese everyday-life habits
- More than 1 hour of image synthesis
- More than 15 hours of game
Through the magic of high-quality computer graphics and multimedia technology, the world can journey again to this magnificient lost Chinese garden.
