Abstract
In China, there is a crisis of rural cultural heritage inheritance due to urbanization. The traditional cultural inheritance modes such as building museums may not satisfy the needs of wide and fast culture transmission, communication, and inheritance. However, the virtual museum may provide new solutions. Nowadays, China has essential social-economic conditions for virtual museum construction but lacks sustainable modes for virtual museums supporting rural cultural heritage inheritance. In this study, we adopted the theoretical analysis method, expert argumentative method, and combined with virtual museum technology analysis to design an appropriate mode for the cultural heritage’s inheritance in rural areas. We built a demonstrational virtual museum for the Mt. Mogan government according to this mode, adopted a comparative analysis and questionnaire survey to verify, and assess the application effects of the mode. Results show that the inheritance mode of rural cultural heritage based on the virtual museum has advantages of larger exhibition scale and wider scope of cultural transmission and communication with less input, and this mode’s operation is steady and sustainable. The inheritance crisis of rural cultural heritage needs reasonable solutions, and our results can be a guideline for building virtual museums in rural areas to promote wide, fast, and sustainable cultural inheritance.
Highlights
Cultural heritage is a bridge connecting the past and the present [1, 2]; has important social, economic, scientific, and educational value, which may motivate the emotion of national pride, social belonging and life belief; and even plays an important role in regional stability and social development [3, 4]
We proposed a rural cultural inheritance mode based on the virtual museum, by three steps: mode designing, mode verification through case empirical research, and mode applying effect assessment
Rural Cultural Inheritance Mode Based on Virtual Museum
Summary
Cultural heritage is a bridge connecting the past and the present [1, 2]; has important social, economic, scientific, and educational value, which may motivate the emotion of national pride, social belonging and life belief; and even plays an important role in regional stability and social development [3, 4]. The countryside is the birthplace of Chinese civilization, and rural areas preserve numerous precious original traditional cultural heritages [5]. Rural cultural heritage mainly includes the tangible culture such as local architecture, historical relics, agricultural instruments, and the intangible culture such as folk customs, folk art, and traditional skills [6, 7]. Rural cultural heritage may reflect local customs, record the development of agriculture history, and carry farmers’ homesickness and life belief [8]. Much cultural heritage has been damaged, lost, or abandoned, and even some of the cultural inheritance has been disrupted [13, 14]. The number of villages decreased from 3.6 to 0.6 million between 2010 and 2018, and a great deal of rural cultural heritage has been abandoned
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