Jinan, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Open the "Hospitality Shandong Tourism Information Service Platform" and click on the cloud tour option, and the Great Wall of Qi will be able to achieve a 360-degree panoramic online display. This service, which allows tourists to visit the Great Wall of Qi without leaving their homes, has been widely praised since its launch.
The Great Wall of Qi is 641 kilometers long, built in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has a history of more than 2,600 years. In 1987, the Great Wall of China was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the Great Wall of Qi is an important part.
Today, although the swords and swords of war have long been lost in the dust of history, this ancient Great Wall is still being revitalized.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Shandong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Shandong actively connected with the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, obtained the special data results of the Great Wall of Qi, and formed a complete basic data. At the same time, the public service resources of cultural centers at all levels along the Great Wall of Qi, the collection resources of museums, and the ancient books and literature resources of libraries will be included in the "Shandong Public Culture Cloud" to facilitate online access.
In order to better protect the Great Wall, China has not only paid attention to the protection of the Great Wall itself in recent years, but also continuously explored the use of various scientific and technological means to explore, research, protect and utilize the cultural significance and spiritual connotation contained in the Great Wall.
Last year, Tencent joined hands with professional organizations and social organizations such as the China Society for Cultural Heritage Conservation to launch the "Digital Great Wall" project. Among them, the "Yunyou Great Wall" WeChat mini-program, which is based on the appearance of the Xifengkou Great Wall after the repair, has been visited by more than 50 million people since its launch in June last year. Entering this mini program, people can not only feel the magnificence of the Great Wall in person, but also experience the restoration work of the Great Wall and learn about the culture of the Great Wall.
According to Chen Mingjie, director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, in recent years, Beijing has actively explored the protection of cultural heritage empowered by science and technology, and created a series of achievements of "traveling to the Great Wall", where users can "cross" to the Great Wall through their mobile phones and experience "climbing the Great Wall" and "repairing the Great Wall". In the repair work of the Jiankou Great Wall, we also tried to use new technologies such as digital technology and intelligent sensors to monitor the Great Wall itself and the surrounding environment, changing the monitoring method that relied on traditional manual inspections in the past.
Since May this year, the Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage and Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture have launched the largest aerial monitoring of the Great Wall in Beijing in recent years, using drones to complete aerial photography and data analysis of 352 kilometers of Great Wall resources in Miyun District and Yanqing District, so as to realize the census and evaluation of the current situation of the Great Wall.
The picture shows the research team of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture using drones to carry out aerial photography and monitoring of the Great Wall at Simatai Great Wall. (Photo courtesy of the interviewee).
Liu Fei, an associate professor at the Urban Big Data Application Research Center of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, said that for many years, people have relied on people to investigate the health status of the Great Wall, and now through drone aerial photography and three-dimensional modeling and other technologies, it is more convenient and multi-angle to see whether the Great Wall is damaged, cracked, collapsed, etc., which greatly saves manpower.
At present, the research team has taken 70,000 high-definition images of the Great Wall of Beijing, and is conducting digital 3D modeling based on these **, analyzing the damage status of the Great Wall, and providing technical support for the development of future protection plans. In 2024, the entire Great Wall of Beijing will be fully monitored by aerial photography and digital 3D modeling.
In 2022, Gansu launched the Great Wall Digitization Project to empower the protection of the Great Wall with digital technology. Located in Shandan County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, the ancient city of Xiakou is an important part of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. At present, the local government has completed the digital protection project and built a three-dimensional digital platform for the ancient city of Xiakou. Log in to the interface, you can view the Great Wall and its surrounding environment within about 25 kilometers in an all-round way, if you drag the mouse to zoom in, the texture of the Great Wall and the carvings and decorations of the ancient city are clearly visible.
The picture shows a screenshot of the page of the 3D digital platform of the ancient city of Xiakou. Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Peishen communicated.
Wuwei City, Gansu Province, adjacent to Zhangye, is also speeding up the implementation of the digitalization project at important points of the Great Wall. According to reports, the local exploration through aerial remote sensing image aerial photography, 3D laser scanning and modeling, database management system construction, 3D display system research and development and other scientific and technological means, for the Great Wall cultural resources in Wuwei to establish a permanent, authentic and complete 3D digital archive. On this basis, the comprehensive use of "5G+4K+VR" and other technologies will implement the Wuwei Great Wall Cultural 5G Smart Experience Center project to digitally display the cultural relics and cultural resources of the Great Wall.
Industry insiders believe that the development of digital technology has opened up a new path for the protection of the Great Wall, and at the same time, it has further enriched the form of presentation and helped the protection and development of the Great Wall culture.
Wang Degang, dean of the Tourism Industry Research Institute of Shandong University, suggested that all localities should further strengthen the use of scientific and technological means in the protection and utilization of the Great Wall in the future, so that more ancient Great Wall that undulates between the mountains and mountains and walks through the cliffs will be revitalized, so that people can better appreciate its majestic and beautiful scenery and understand its unique cultural value.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Sun Xiaohui, Wei Mengjia, Lang Bingbing.