[Explanation] On the afternoon of March 1st, the World Heritage Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, opened its first live webcast "Cloud Spring Tour", using a new digital method, to bring the Potala Palace into the sight of more people. Let the people “visit” the Potala Palace without leaving home, and experience its majestic and ancient heritage.
[Contemporary] Tsering Jorga, the interpreter of "Spring Tour" at the Potala Palace
You can see that there is such an activity as painting the wall at the end of the Potala Palace every year (by the end of the year). This wall painting is to protect these walls of the Potala Palace, and this is a maintenance department dedicated to the Potala Palace It is their operation.
[Explanation] In this webcast, the Potala Palace showed more areas that were rarely open before, including the Golden Dome Group on the top of the Potala Palace. It focused on the tour routes and construction techniques of the Potala Palace. , The collection of cultural relics and daily protection and management.
[Live] The Potala Palace has a total of seven golden domes, which are basically divided into two categories. One is the larger one we see like the Xieshanding style, which is the ancient craftsmanship of this Han Dynasty. Influence; then there is this kind of rounded, hexagonal and octagonal, this masked gold dome. Therefore, this golden roof group of the Potala Palace is also a major feature of the entire Potala Palace architecture.
[Explanation] The Potala Palace is the largest and most complete preserved palace complex in Tibet, which integrates temples and palace architecture. It has more than 1,300 years of history and is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in China. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994.
[Same Period] Dorji Pingcuo, Researcher, Cultural Relics Research Office, Potala Palace Management Office
Although everyone can't come to visit now, we also try our best to broadcast live some classic relics of our Potala Palace through different forms and different modes. After the entire (new crown pneumonia) epidemic is over, we also sincerely hope that the majority of tourists and friends will come to Tibet to travel and visit the Potala Palace.
[Explanation] According to relevant statistics, during the one-hour online live broadcast of the first show of the Potala Palace, "Yunchun Tour", a total of 920,000 people watched, accounting for more than half of the offline visitors throughout the year.
Reporter Gongsam Ram Tibet Lhasa
Editor-in-chief: [Song Fangcan]