7.1.3 Intangible Culture Interpretation Methods
The process of protecting and activating of historic personalities’ residences is closely related to public interaction and participation, which is an important method for the integration of this form of cultural heritage into modern life.The heritage interpretation method is vital during this process.It is important to know that the purpose of tourists in visiting these sites is mainly to seek the approaching famous person’s life style and spirit that inhabits the sites.This can be realized through sustainably preserving an authentic situation, such as the celebrity experienced in their lifetime.Therefore, the residence cannot be interpreted just by an exhibition, but an opportunity to relive history and experience the lifestyle of the historic person who lived there.While protecting the historic personalities’ residences and their environment, digital technology achieved the vivid display and flexible management of historic persons’ culture in their residence through Multimedia Display, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and other advanced digital technologies, thus effectively improving the display form of residences, stimulating the enthusiasm for public participation.
At present, the well-protected residences in Jinan are mostly used as museums.However, due to geographical location, exhibition methods and other reasons, public participation is relatively low.The use of digital technology and hardware platforms will allow the site to create digital museums with vivid forms of exhibitions and interactive links, providing a better solution.The Digital Museum can combine a historical person’s life story, historical events and other information through three-dimensional technology and 360-degree screen, ground screen, holographic projection and other means to display all aspects of the story that is being told.This will greatly enhance the immersive experience of visitors, enabling them to feel the environment and atmosphere of historic life in a vivid way.Additionally, establishing a digital museum for historic persons’ residence through an internet platform will provide an impact on modern social life and culture efficiently.When combined with internet technology, architectural heritage sites become a shared global cultural resource.(https://www.daowen.com)
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality technology can play a significant role in the process of tangible and intangible heritage display, raising public awareness of heritage protection.In the residences of historic personalities, with auxiliary equipment, the Augmented Reality technology can be used to superimpose explanatory information on physical objects through images, sounds and videos, so that the visitors can quickly acquire an understanding of the scene as it used to be.Therefore, through the application of digital technology, we can successfully enhance the overall protection in historic personalities’ residences, stimulate public participation enthusiasm and increase heritage protection awareness, which will be conducive towards new solutions for the current predicament of this kind of heritage site suffers from.