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This is the 18th installment of the column

The Forbidden City, formerly known as the Forbidden City, is well known to the people of China.

But do you know there is a second "Forbidden City" in Beijing?

It is a new type of digital exhibition hall hidden in a traditional building, in which the 600-year-old imperial city, rich and magnificent cultural relics, and the accumulation of history have been given a new life in the form of digitization.

This is the tadpole gentleman to recommend the exhibition hall, Duanmen digital museum ↓ ↓

The end of 2015, the Palace Museum will be transformed into the Duanmen City Hall "Duanmen digital museum" to the public for trial opening, as the ninetieth anniversary of the celebration of the hospital gift. Initially open on a fixed date, it is now open by appointment on a permanent basis (closed on Mondays).

The entire interior of the Duanmen Citadel is divided into three areas ↓↓

The eastern part is the "Forbidden City - the Palace Collection" digital heritage interactive area;

The central part is the "from the Forbidden City to the Museum" digital sand table display area;

West is a small theater, let the audience feel the charm of the Forbidden City architecture "Forbidden City - Palace of the Son of God" virtual reality theater.

The entrance to the tour is in the east of the north side of the Duanmen City Tower, with a digital museum panels and kiosks as a record.

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Tadpole Jun booked a Thursday 09:00-10:00, may be the relationship between the time slot, the result of one person package, cool bomb!

The whole tour was led by the staff, and Tadpole went to the small theater on the west side to watch the 20-minute VR movie "Forbidden City - The Palace of the Son of Heaven".

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The theater can accommodate more than 30 people inside, there is a giant digital ring screen, asked the staff learned that the size of this ring screen is 13.5m x 4.1m, highly immersive experience. It mainly introduces the concept of creating the Forbidden City, several major buildings along the central axis, and the palace itself in terms of scale and shape.

Immortals, dragons, phoenixes, lions, celestial horses, seahorses, mythical beasts (suān ní), apodized (xiá) fish, xiezhi (xiè zhì), fighting bulls, and rows of shi (pictured right-to-left) taken by Tadpole Jun

The best part was seeing the panoramic view of the Forbidden City as well as scenes inside the palace, which are not available for the time being. The Hall of Supreme Harmony is twelve stories high, with eaves and corners more than three meters high, and I finally know what the immortals and animals lined up on the eaves and corners are.

Tips: I feel that after watching this, it can definitely come in handy when visiting the Forbidden City with family and friends.

After that, Tadpole went to the east side in turn to experience a variety of multimedia interactions ↓↓

Digital Calligraphy Table - Copy Lanting Sequence

Curved water goblets

Ancient folk custom, every year, March of the lunar calendar, set up a cup of wine in a curved stream of water next to the flow of water, flowed to the front of whoever, who would be taken off and drink it, you can remove the bad luck.

And by the third day of the third month in the ninth year of the Yonghe year (353 years), Wang Xizhi played a trick.

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Wang Xizhi and others, after the ceremony of the Purification of Ch'io (禊), sat on the ground on both sides of the clear stream in the Lanting, put the goblet with the wine in the stream, and floated down the stream by the upstream, passing through the winding stream, the goblet spinning around in front of whoever stops, and whoever has to improvise poems and drink the wine.

Wang Xizhi will be everyone's poems together, cocoon paper, mouse brush, and book in the mood, wrote the world-famous "Lanting Preface", known as "the world's first line of the book", Wang Xizhi is also honored as the "Sage of the Book".

The ancients really know how to play.

Now, we can also imitate the ancient elegance a time.

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Digital calligraphy stage, three screens simulate the "goblet" stream, click on the lacquer near the shore of the "goblet cup", in front of the flat panel will be randomly opened in the Lanting Preface of a text, with pressure-sensitive pen simulation brush to write. With a pressure-sensitive pen to simulate the brush to write, the words they write will be integrated into the original work, you can also scan the QR code to take away their own "Lanting Preface".

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Tips: The notch where the pressure-sensitive pen is placed is so narrow that Tadpole Jun has to pick it up.

Digital Painting: Sketching Rare Birds

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The Sketching Rare Birds is the only credible heirloom work of Huang Quan, a master of the Fifth Generation court painting. It depicts more than 20 kinds of insects and animals, such as sparrows, turtle doves, waxy beaks, tortoises, grasshoppers, cicadas, honey bees, and marionettes, in different states, although it is not a complete composition, it is a sketching work. Although it is not a complete composition, it is a sketching work, and its realistic modeling and subtle painting techniques are amazing.

Photographed by Tadpole Jun

When Tadpole Jun approached the touch screen about 1 meter away, the rare birds in the screen began to stir. Clicking on one of the birds above unfolds the environment the bird inhabits, and you can feed it leaves and insects.

What makes Tadpole even more marvelous is that touching the bird's body allows you to take a detailed look at the localization and compare it with the real bird to see how much the drawing looks like, which should be a pleasant surprise to students who have studied painting.

The Forbidden City treasures "treasure pavilion"

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Digital treasure pavilion consists of 18 high-definition screen, presenting the Forbidden City over the years to scan and collect the porcelain, jade, bronzes and other artifacts.

Every piece of cultural relics displayed here can be operated through the touch screen to achieve three-dimensional viewing, done in a very fine manner, you can flip to see it from any angle, even the broken condition of the artifacts are not spared.

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Tips: In a word, the artifacts here can be "touched".

Digital Palace in its original state - Sanxitang

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Sanxitang is located in the Forbidden City Yangxin Hall of the West Warm Pavilion, is the study of the Qianlong Emperor, because of the Emperor's collection, to appreciate the three rare calligraphic treasures and derivation of the Sanxitang posters, and has played an important role in the history of Chinese culture. It occupies an important position in the history of Chinese culture, and is also significant for its confined space that maps the mindset of the "Sage within and the King without".

How confined is the space? Area of only 8 square meters, in the room where the emperor sat only 4.8 square meters, 4.8 square meters, three people stood full, so the three Xitang is difficult to open, want to see can only look through the glass.

Digital palace in its original state of this link is to build a three-dimensional virtual environment, visit with 3D glasses, to be able to enter the Palace of Yangxin Hall, into the Three Hearts Hall, with the background commentary, you can view in detail inside the Palace of Yangxin Hall of cultural relics and scenarios, Tadpole Jun is also the first time "to see" the Emperor Qianlong's favorite three rare pieces of calligraphy treasures.

The Tadpole is also the first to "see" three of Emperor Qianlong's favorite rare calligraphy treasures.

Tips: This is Tadpole's first favorite part of the tour.

Digital Screen: Court Dress

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The beauty of Qing Dynasty court dress lies not only in the delightful craftsmanship, but also in the fact that it suits the etiquette and highlights the status.

The 12 digital screens on the "Qing Dynasty Court Dress" program contains the emperor, consort, the young prince and the young princess and other sets of royal costumes to try on. Stand in front of the big screen to choose one of the sets of clothing, you can try on, you can turn around, you can also change clothes, switch the scene, take pictures, and then by scanning the QR code of the way to bring home their own "make-up photo".

Tips: When you try on the clothes, you have to stand on the ground in the foot print position, Tadpole Jun thinks this part of the old people and children will like it very much.

Digital Palace Embroidery

Grape Squirrel Figure Tadpole Jun Photo

The Forbidden City has a collection of more than 180,000 pieces of weaving and embroidery, which is very skillful. The digital palace weaving and embroidery project selects one of the "weaving and embroidery painting" category, three screens present weaving and embroidery collection, can zoom in to see the fine details of the precious collection, with text explanation can learn the fabric contains "weaving", "embroidery", "weaving" and "embroidery". With textual explanations, you can learn the techniques of "weaving", "embroidery" and "weaving plus embroidery" embedded in the fabrics. There are also interesting little interactions hidden in each piece of artifact.

Grape Squirrel Figure by Tadpole Jun Photo

Tips: A connoisseur looks at the doorway, while a layman watches the fun.

Finally, the central Forbidden City digital sand table projection ↓↓↓

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Through the introduction of the exhibition area unit of the Palace Museum, leading to the collection of historical information and the history of the founding of the Palace. This is also the end of the whole tour.

The carpet in front of the "digital gate" can be switched, you have to take the initiative to ask the staff, Tadpole Jun cheeky request, and then the staff enthusiastically helped to switch the carpet three times.

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Tips: The sand table is part of the display screen, remember not to stand on it when you visit.

All of the visit experience is completed, almost 1 hour, Tadpole Jun in the staff guide down the city tower, then look at the south side of the Tiananmen Square, as well as the north side of the Noon Gate, there is a different feeling.

When you really understand that the imperial city you are standing in has experienced 600 years of history, there has been prosperity, there has been extravagance, there has been smoke, there has been the emperor's red face, and even the willow flakes that rise up with the wind seem to be a little bit different, which is the power of the history of the silent power, right?

On the "Duanmen Digital Museum", single dean said ↓↓

It can tell us what the Palace has.

Last attached tips ↓↓

Appointment Duanmen Digital Museum for the spring and fall exhibitions, summer and winter exhibitions; in the Palace Museum ticket pre-sale system to make an appointment, click on the end of the original article can be directly into the booking.

After entering the page, click on the upper right side of the "Duanmen Digital Museum", you can register to make a reservation

Online to determine the date and time period to visit (length of 1 hour), booking of the visit quota, when the ID card with a visit to the building, yes, free of charge! Free of charge! Free of charge!

Be sure to arrive at the entrance five minutes in advance, every hour to 55 minutes to open the entrance for the next hour to book visitors to enter the tour.

Visiting the museum staff is very nice, to help shoot to help record to help demo, can be said to be responsive.

May Day holiday, why not just go to the Duanmen Digital Museum to see it~

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