On March 22, Yin Yue, a local teacher at the Confucius Institute of the University of Brasilia, presented a short video on the “Fuxin Guanshan Liao Tomb Murals: Paintings Depicting the Customs and Lifestyle of the Liao Dynasty” to his class. Using 3D scanning technology, avant-garde filming techniques, and top-notch editing, the cultural relics in the video came to life and left the students exclaiming “amazing” in the classroom.
This video is from National Treasures in Liaoning, a large-scale Omnimedia media project launched by Liaoning Media Group. The project carefully selects 30 national treasures unearthed and collected in Liaoning, and uses techniques such as original hand-painted paintings and animation effects to reproduce historical scenes. In addition, 3D scanning technology is used to showcase the ornaments, craftsmanship, structure, and color of the cultural relics. Through the beauty of these cultural relics, the glorious history of Liaoning and the unique charm of Chinese culture are presented in a visually stunning way.
“National treasures in Liaoning are fantastic”, “It’s the first time I’ve seen cultural relics come to life”, “Every artefact is amazing”,“I saw the charm of Chinese culture through the cultural relics”… Students from the Confucius Institute of the University of Brasilia were so interested in the cultural relics shown in the video that students in the back row stood up to watch it several times. Many Students expressed their hope that they would have the opportunity to go to Liaoning to see the national treasures in the future.
“The National Treasures in Liaoning series of short videos have built a bridge of cultural exchange between China and abroad, allowing young people overseas to have a close encounter with Chinese culture,” said Lu Xiaojuan, the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute of University of Brasilia and a professor at Dalian University of Foreign Languages. “Chinese language learning cannot be separated from an understanding of Chinese culture, so we organized the students to watch the National Treasures in Liaoning series of short videos. We hoped that it would deepen their understanding and favor of Chinese culture, and inspire them to learn Chinese. The cultural relics and the stories behind them deeply impressed the students. Many of them were even inspired to travel to Liaoning and appreciate the relics in person.”
The University of Brasilia is one of the most distinguished institutions of higher education and one of the most important centers of cultural exchange in Brazil. In recent years, the Confucius Institute of University of Brasilia has seen a steady increase in the number of students and a flourishing of Chinese language teaching and cultural activities. It has become an important platform for people-to-people exchanges between China and Brazil.