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Shang Simla

Shang Simla

Vacation destination · Featured in: The Sims 3: World Adventures
Shang Simla
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Shang Simla, China is home to people that value discipline, peace, and clarity of mind over all else. While there, adventurers are encouraged to visit the Academy to learn the Martial Arts skill, then head to the Scholar's Garden for introspective meditation. If you're lucky, you may even catch one of Shang Simla's famous fireworks shows!
Name Shang Simla
Game TS3WA Icon The Sims 3: World Adventures
Housed residents 33
Skies Cloudy
Onomatology

Shang Simla is a pre-made destination sub-world that was added to The Sims 3 in The Sims 3: World Adventures along with Champs Les Sims and Al Simhara.

Description[]

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Shang Simla is a peaceful community set near a mountainous area of China near the Great Wall. It was founded by a group of monks with an ethos of discipline and Martial Arts. The town is named after Shang Ri-La. It is full of colorful flora, such as Chinese elms and cherry trees, growing on deep green hills. This sub-hood features activities and items that compliment Chinese culture and architecture. Shang Simla is the hub for training in the Martial Arts skill introduced in World Adventures. Sims can also explore landmark tombs and hidden tombs throughout this world, there are numerous adventures to be had. There are numerous pre-made families in Shang Simla, although they all lack description texts and money. Description text on some objects introduced in World Adventures expand on the lore of Shang Simla, depicting characters such as painter Han Shin.

A trip to Shang Simla costs §1,300 for a single Sim and §1,000 for each additional Sim, making it the cheapest vacation destination the player's Sims can travel to.

Features[]

  • Sims will bow to each other when greeting, instead of shaking hands.
  • Sims who live here all have the inheritable Asian Culture hidden trait. This makes Sims eat with chopsticks.
  • Players' Sims can compete in a Shang Simla exclusive Martial Arts ranked tournament, inviting over opponents by phone similar to in the ranked chess and soccer[TS3:S] tournaments.
  • Lots here make liberal use of the new pagoda roof style.

Exclusive Items[]

Lots[]

Shang Simla Overview

Residential lots[]

Vacation home lots[]

  • Lotus House
  • Palace in the Clouds
  • Plum Blossom House
  • The Thyme House
  • West Royal House

Townie lots[]

  • Han's Orchard House
  • The Azalea House
  • Chrysanthemum House
  • The Peony Estate

Community lots[]

Tombs[]

The Temple of Heaven

The Temple of Heaven

Shang Simla contains a variety of tomb lots as well as tomb puzzles on non-tomb lots. This is only a listing of tomb lots, not puzzles or non-tomb lot tombs.

Visible[]

Hidden[]

Families[]

All Sims among these families have the hidden Asian Culture trait. NPCs generated in Shang Simla do not have this trait, instead they have the hidden trait connected to their job (e.g. Pizza Appreciator for Pizza Delivery), and other Sims such as Explorers have no hidden traits at all.

Difficulty: 2
Chen Hong, Shing Hong
Difficulty: 3
Zhang Hua, Lin Hua, Bebe Hua
Difficulty: 3
Ho Sung Kim, Hui Young Kim, Sun Young Kim
Difficulty: 1
Bao Louie
Difficulty: 3
Jiang Lu, Jiannan Lu, Liu Lu, Wang Lu
Difficulty: 2
Biyu Shen, Adaeze Min
Difficulty: 3
Ai Pei, Gao Pei, Liu Pei, Wei Pei
Difficulty: 2
Shen Su, Zhan Su
Difficulty: 2
Deng Wang, Maya Wang
Difficulty: 2
Wu Xio, Sima Zhi, Lu Zhi
Difficulty: 1
Lee Yao
Difficulty: 2
Abi Yat Sen, Liang Yat Sen
Difficulty: 3
Li Yuan, Xi Yuan, Lu Yuan, Ziyi Yuan

NPCs[]

Deceased Sims[]

Subdistricts[]

Shang Simla effectively has no multi-purpose subdistricts, having one residential subdistrict (South Shang Simla Hills) where all local residents and the base camp are placed in or in the immediate area around, and one downtown subdistrict (Forbidden City).

Map[]

The Sims 3: World Adventures (smartphone)[]

The Sims 3: World Adventures (smartphone) allows the player to send their sim abroad, either for §150 for an economy flight, or §250 for a first class flight. China is one of the three locations.

In China, a sim can complete two tours: Forbidden Temple[1] and Great Wall[2]. Both tours are free, and consist of a presentation of various images of the site along with fun facts about it.

A sim can visit the Language School to build their language skills. They can also visit the Market to buy produce, buy street food, or practice bartering, and can visit the Souvenir Shop to purchase Chinese furniture.

Sims[]

  • Dong-Hai
  • Xiu-Xiu
  • Wong
  • Sun

Comparisons with the Real World[]

Unlike Al Simhara and Champs Les Sims, Shang Simla has elements taken from several real world locations around China, mostly from Beijing. It is set in the mountains, most likely the Taihang mountains of Hebei, Shanxi, and Shaanxi considering the Great Wall.

  • The Forbidden City is not a perfect square in the real world, and is located within Beijing.
  • The Terracotta Army in the real world is much larger than it is in game.
  • The Temple of Heaven in the real world does not contain an underground tomb or house a mythical axe.
  • In game, the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests does not exist.
  • The Great Wall intersects with Shang Simla. In the real world, there is no city that directly intersects The Great Wall.
  • There is no cave/tomb that has the head of a dragon in the real world.
  • Fortune cookies were not invented in People's Republic of China, and are very rare there.
  • The icon is a torii gate, which is actually Japanese, not Chinese. Also, koi fishes can be found in Shang Simla, which are domesticated carp found in Japan.
  • One of the pre-made families, the Kim family, has a Korean surname, as is the first names of at least one (possibly more) of the three members, Ho Sung Kim. Though there is a small Korean minority in the northeast of PRC, Kim is distinctly of Korean origin as a family name.
  • The "Zen" moodlet for the Chinese garden uses "Namaste!" as its main greeting, a phrase from Hindi, an India/Pakistan-based language generally not spoken in China.

Trivia[]

  • The writing skill opportunity "Deliver a Book to China" is about several of the Sim's books having been banned there and that the Sim must smuggle one of his/her books there, parodying real-life media bans in the People's Republic of China.
  • Shang Simla is mentioned in The Sims 3: Generations. If a Sim makes a prank call, it may be about Shang Simla as the victim of the prank call will say they don't want a free trip to Shang Simla after saying they felt hurt that the caller would think they would fall for it.
  • In The Sims 4: Movie Hangout Stuff, there is an item called "Lilacs & Lanterns" mentioning Shang Simla, 73 South Shang Simla Hills, and Maya Wang. According to the description, Maya Wang was part of season 4, episode 1 of Plumbob Pickers. It is unknown whether she played herself, or was portrayed by someone else.
  • In The Sims 4: Romantic Garden Stuff, there is a fountain called the "Spitting Flower Fountain" which is said to be inspired by the countryside of Shang Simla.

Gallery[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ The much later expansion packs University Life and Island Paradise also included camera functionalities for players without World Adventures.

Names in foreign languages[]

Excluding non-English languages where it's also called Shang Simla verbatim.

Language Name Translated etymology
English Shang Simla Based on the Shang Ri-La legend.
Chinese (Traditional) 模海 lit. "Mó hǎi"
Greek
Korean
Italian ShangSim-La
Japanese
Russian Шанг-Симла lit. "Shang-Simla"

References[]

  1. ↑ https://youtu.be/jRGtHwLqF8U
  2. ↑ https://youtu.be/oOpbI7du35k
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