Xingcheng Ancient City: The Digital Protection and Inheritance of the Early Qing Dynasty Cultural Heritage in Liaoning

Abstract

The architectural cultural heritage of the ancient city of Xingcheng has distinct historical and cultural value, providing an important research sample for this article. This study took the national key cultural relics protection unit of Xingcheng Ancient City as the research object, and conducted a mixed study that combined qualitative and practical research. This research has 3 core objectives: 1) To study the history and development of inheritance in Xingcheng Ancient City; 2) The current problem and the form of cultural heritage for digital media design; 3) Develop digital systems for protection and transfer of knowledge about cultural heritage. This study will conduct on-the-spot research in Xingcheng Ancient City, Xingcheng Folk Museum, Huludao Cultural Center and other places multiple times from July 2022 to October 2023. This study collected data through document analysis, interviews, observations, in-depth interviews and group discussions. The sample consists of 33 people. Through talking about the needs of the target group and descriptive analysis, the following conclusions are drawn:

The research results are as follows: (1) The research results can sort out the history and development of Xingcheng Ancient City into four stages: namely, the stage from which Xingcheng Ancient City was a military town to a state of defunct defense, full of wars and changes, the modernization development stage, and the protection and inheritance stage.

(2) Through the analysis of the current protection and inheritance status of Xingcheng Ancient City, it is found that the protection of the ancient city is still only static protection, lacking dynamic protection methods, and the unique cultural connotation of the ancient city architecture is vague. Therefore, this study deeply explores the architectural style and cultural connotation of the ancient city of Xingcheng, uses the concept of cultural genes to sort out and extract the unique culture of the ancient city, and extracts and effectively organizes the core cultural genes of the ancient city based on the different expression forms and identification dimensions of cultural genes. The internal cultural logical structure constructs a genealogy diagram of Xingcheng Ancient City's cultural genes, thereby increasing the systematic academic data on the cultural heritage of Xingcheng Ancient City and enriching the statistical information of Xingcheng Ancient City's cultural data.

(3) Combined with digital means, use information visualization means to translate the extracted important and unique historical and cultural information of the ancient city into a visual language familiar to the audience, and disseminate information through the construction of digital websites to enhance the attractiveness of the ancient city culture and enhance the local culture Recognize, strengthen educational inheritance and community participation, thereby better protecting the ancient city culture and providing new ideas for the inheritance of ancient city culture.

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