Changsha has gone viral online again! The first episode "The Writing of a Civilization" of the AI bilingual short video "On Slips," produced by Changsha Evening News in collaboration with Changsha Jiandu Museum, was simultaneously released worldwide on May 18. The video has been shared and praised by the social media accounts of CHINA MFA Spokesperson and multiple embassies and consulates abroad. The new episode titled "Transcendental Interview," created to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the Zoumalou Wu bamboo slips, was released on May 26, inviting "Beethoven" and "Tagore" to attend.

The official overseas social media account of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson shares and praises the AI bilingual short video "On Slips."

The "On Slips" series utilizes AIGC technology to offer a panoramic interpretation of the profound historical depth and core cultural value of the Zoumalou Wu bamboo slips. Upon its release, the work has been shared by the official overseas social media accounts of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, the Chinese Embassy in Kuwait and the Chinese Embassy in Ghana. The newly launched "Transcendental Interview" is the first episode of the "Changsha 'Slips' News" series. In this "interview," Chinese and foreign luminaries such as Beethoven, Tagore, and Yi Sun-sin gather in Changsha. AI technology has endowed the creation team with boundless inspiration, from Beethoven's culinary symphony to Tagore's urban poetry, and then to Yi Sun-sin's view of Changsha's construction machinery industry. This cross-temporal selection of city ambassadors is a remarkable display of creative imagination. The young man Huang Chao from the Three Kingdoms period is particularly creative, leveraging the profound bamboo slip culture to vie for an offer, revealing Changsha's cultural heritage as a historic city and its warm urban character in cherishing and attracting talents.

According to the creators of the "Transcendental Interview" video team, the creative inspiration for this temporal dialogue stems from a cultural relic housed in the Changsha Jiandu Museum—the bamboo slips from the state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period excavated from Zoumalou. This humble name-card slip bears the ancient inscription, "Yours respectfully, Huang Chao, inquiring about daily life, from Yiyang, Changsha, courtesy name Yuanbao." Leveraging the ever-advancing AI digital audio-visual technology, the video not only recreates the historical scene of Hunan youth Huang Chao using a name card and restores the everyday life of Changsha during the Three Kingdoms period but also affirms Changsha's urban gene of honoring talent.

The video screenshot shows the young man Huang Chao.

Source: en.changsha.gov.cn