Enlightenment of the Copper Gilded Watch Clock

Welcome to CET's China Private Customized Tour. In the third hour after the Palace Museum closed, CET's guests were touching the gears of the copper-gilded watch clock from the Qianlong period, and the clock restorer of the Palace Museum was demonstrating how to calibrate the time using the method recorded in the Ming Dynasty's "Illustrated Explanation of Strange Instruments". This is by no means an ordinary tour, but a civilization decoding project with cultural relics as the key - we walked along the surveying route of Liang Sicheng in 1932 to revisit Foguang Temple, holding the cave exploration flashlight specially approved by the Dunhuang Research Institute, and saw the lost Tang Dynasty architectural paintings in the murals of "Wutai Mountain Map" in the 45-degree oblique light.

Triple Space-Time Folding Technique

1. Classic Book Activation Laboratory

In Shaoxing Lanting, calligraphers will use AR pen tracking technology to overlap the guest's copying handwriting with the pen trajectory of Wang Xizhi's "Sangluan Tie" in real time. The "Tang and Song Poetry Geographic Information System" developed by the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences can take you to stand on the three-dimensional restoration map of the Yellow Crane Tower site and see the spatial and temporal echoes between Cui Hao's poems and the changes in the ancient Yangtze River.

2. Immersive drama in non-open areas

Before the morning bell of the Confucius Temple in Qufu rang, our guests were already wearing Ming Dynasty student clothes to participate in the rehearsal of the "Release of Vegetables Ceremony". On the maintenance scaffolding of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda in Shanxi, structural engineers pointed to the Liao Dynasty brackets to explain the "stealing heart construction" craft secrets in the "Construction Methods". Behind these scenes is the "Cultural Heritage Activation Community" established by CET and 27 cultural protection units.

3. Academic Private Meeting

Under the starry sky of Dunhuang Night School, there are always people around the restoration experts to discuss the Hellenistic Gandhara elements in the murals. In the temporary archaeological warehouse of the Liangzhu site, the divine patterns on the surface of the Jade Cong King are being magnified to the nanometer level through an electron microscope - these in-depth contacts that are usually only open to academic groups constitute the core privileges of the CET "Civilization Observer" project.

Invisible knowledge curator

Each guest is equipped with a "cultural decoder", who may be a young teacher from Peking University's School of Archaeology and Museum Studies, or a scholar who has hosted the copywriting of the "National Treasure" program. In Anyang Yinxu, you will compare the original archaeological excavation report with the exploration square; in Suzhou Museum, the light and shadow game between I.M. Pei's design manuscripts and the actual building are waiting for geometric interpretation.

When Neil MacGregor, former director of the British Museum, commented that "it is more inspiring than a university seminar", we understand that the Taotie patterns on that bronze ware will eventually be revived in the gaze of modern people.