Visual storytelling of Song Ci and the poets in the social–cultural context of Song dynasty

• DOI: 10.1016/j.visinf.2021.12.002
• Publication Date: 2021-12-11T05:55:43Z
• Authors: Wei Zhang; Qian Ma; Rusheng Pan; Wei Chen
• Keywords: Promotion (chess); Abstraction

Song Ci is treasured in traditional Chinese culture, which indicates social and cultural evolution ancient times. Despite the efforts by historians litterateurs investigating characteristics of Ci, it still unclear how to effectively distribute promote public sphere. The complexity abstraction hamper general from closely reading, analyzing, appreciating these excellent works. By means a set visual analysis methods, e.g. spatio-temporal visualization, we exploit storytelling explicitly present latent abstractive features Ci. We apply straightway charts lighten burden understanding stories, order achieve an effective distribution. effectiveness aesthetics our work are demonstrated user study three participants with different backgrounds. result reveals that story distribution, understanding, promotion