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TAIPEI, June 25 ( tasteallchina ) -- A digitalized and animated version of the Chinese painting "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" will soon give viewers in Taipei an immersive tour of Chinese city life over 900 years ago. The multimedia exhibition of the ancient Chinese painting, one of the most famous, will be held from Wednesday to Sept. 15 in Taipei, according to the organizer Firenze Cultural Exchange at a press conference on Tuesday. The original painting, a scroll 528.7 cm long and 24.8 cm wide, vividly records the buzzing daily life of Bianliang (today's Kaifeng), the imperial capital of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), in the 12th century. Using digital animation and projection technologies, the show will allow people to watch 1,068 figures in the painting moving, trees swaying in the wind, and horses and donkeys running, while experiencing the city during the daytime and at night. By viewing the painting, audiences will learn more about literature, arts, architecture, geographic details and even military arrangements in ancient China, said Garrick Cheng, general manager of Firenze Cultural Exchange. "We hope that more people in Taiwan, particularly young people, will learn about this masterpiece," Cheng said. Together with the multimedia show,…

BEIJING, July 29 ( tasteallchina ) - Imagine birds soaring, flowers blooming, and streams flowing, all within a digital panorama. As the holographic "scroll" unfolds, "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains," a masterpiece from over 600 years ago, comes to life in a 5-meter high and 40-meter long display at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou. "I've visited many museums, but this experience is unlike anything I've ever seen. It's as if I've stepped into the painting itself," a visitor surnamed Chen remarked, captivated by the experience. This immersive digital exhibition is just one example of how China's museums are innovating. These institutions are redefining the visitor experience by integrating technologies such as digital twins, virtual reality (VR), and naked-eye 3D. Visitors can "return" to historical places and interact with ancient civilizations as if they were present. Visitors to the digital Dunhuang immersive exhibition hall in the Mogao Caves in northwest China's Gansu Province can wear VR glasses to "enter" the caves, and "travel" back over 1,400 years to experience the exquisite world of murals. Mogao Cave 285, which is usually closed to the public, is now welcoming visitors in this innovative way. This early cave, excavated during the Western Wei…

The documentary genre in China, particularly in the realm of traditional culture, continues to produce outstanding works. Today, I would like to introduce a documentary film about porcelain titled "I Am Your Porcelain (我是你的瓷儿, Wo Shi Ni De Ci Er)". It is well known that in English, the term "china" refers to both "porcelain" and "China", highlighting China as the true homeland of porcelain. Centuries before Europe mastered the technique of porcelain production, China was already creating exquisitely crafted porcelain. Chinese porcelain was once a high-end luxury item exported overseas. The documentary "I Am Your Porcelain" not only fills in our knowledge gap about porcelain but also elevates our aesthetic appreciation, allowing modern individuals to experience traditional aesthetics and craftsmanship through the magnificent Chinese porcelain. "I Am Your Porcelain" features narrator Yu Entai, unfolding a thousand-year-old porcelain scroll. Unlike traditional documentaries that tend to be serious and dull, this film adopts a humorous and witty overall style. In Beijing dialect, "Ci Er" means "good friend, buddy", likening porcelain to an friend we interact with daily, a material object embodying Chinese traditional aesthetics and craftsmanship. Seemingly ordinary yet deeply mysterious, emerging from clay and fire yet as lustrous as jade, it…