[Commentary] Buddha heads lost and returned overseas, national cultural relics along the Silk Road, maid statues in China's earliest thousand-year-old royal garden... Cultural relics that used to need to be driven to appreciate, now you can sit at home and be in the scene. enjoy to the full.

　　Recently, due to the impact of the epidemic, many cultural and tourism venues in Shanxi, a major cultural relic province, have temporarily closed their museums to thank guests. Some museums and scenic spots have successively launched a series of activities such as "Cloud Tour Exhibition" and "Cloud Tour". Go out to the "cloud" to travel around the world and feel the charm of Chinese and foreign cultural relics.

　　Three months after the offline exhibition, Shanxi Museum's "From the Mediterranean to China - Silk Road Cultural Relics Exhibition" returned to the public's field of vision through an online exhibition.

　　The museum uses VR virtual reality technology and panoramic tour to restore the offline scene to the online. The audience can enjoy a 360-degree panoramic "cloud view exhibition", travel through time and space with more than 190 cultural relics, swim from the middle of the Yellow River to the west, cross the Papa From the Mir Plateau, through Central Asia and West Asia to the Mediterranean Sea, passing through China, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Iran, Greece and other countries, you can feel the charm of the fusion of Eastern and Western civilizations.

　　In July 2021, the Tianlongshan Grottoes, which have been wandering overseas for nearly a hundred years, returned to their homeland and attracted attention at home and abroad.

In order to make up for the regret of offline closure, Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum presented 2 "treasures" exhibitions, namely "Beautiful Tianlong - Digital Restoration Exhibition of Tianlongshan Grottoes" and "Return of National Treasures on Fuxing Road - Tianlongshan Grottoes Return" Special Exhibition of Buddha Heads", allowing the public to further understand the story behind the digital protection of grottoes and the return of the "national treasure" Buddha heads.

　　The Millennium Royal Garden Jinci also opens the "cloud tour" mode.

The maid statue, the iron statue, the water mirror platform, the hall of worship, the hall of Our Lady... VR panoramic technology allows tourists to roam the garden immersively and appreciate Jinci cultural relics at close range with the touch of a mouse.

More than 30 exhibitions of different categories in Jinci Museum are also on the "cloud" one after another.

　　At the moment of the epidemic, the people of "Yunyou" look forward to meeting with cultural relics offline as soon as possible.

In addition, various cultural and tourist venues in Shanxi have also added interactive functions when opening online exhibitions. Some tourists left a message after visiting the Jinci Museum in the "cloud": "When everything is as usual, I will go to see the Ming Dynasty peonies and stele inscriptions in the Shuangta Temple. Look at the rainforest and cactus in the botanical garden, look at the iron man carved beams and painted buildings in Jinci’s temple by Zhou Bai’s ginkgo, and see that Jinci, which has outperformed the rain disaster, is still standing proudly. We can all stand in the wind and rain.”

　　Zhang Licheng reports from Taiyuan, Shanxi

Responsible editor: [Ye Pan]