Ise Jingu shrine and other digital metaversms

Ise Jingu Shrine, the most sacred building in Japan, is the prototype of this building, which is said to have come from a warehouse where rice was stored. Legend has it that the Yamato nation of Japan came from the agrarian civilization laid down by Emperor Shenmu more than 2,600 years ago, when rice crops became the basis of people's lives and part of their national identity. This history is commemorated by ise Jingu Shrine in the Nara period. The building materials are wood, and the roof is thickly thatched. Next to Ise Jingu Shrine, there is a vacant lot of land of equal size and shape. Every 20 years, the craftsmen will rebuild a new identical building on this land, and hold a palace relocation ceremony, moving the body from the original shrine to the new shrine, and then dismantling the old shrine, this regular alternating construction and disintegration operation is carried out every 20 years, which has lasted for more than 1300 years, the most recent relocation of the palace occurred in 2013, 8 years ago, when it became a major event in Japan. (The above information comes from Professor Wu Hong, who teaches Chinese art history at Harvard and the University of Chicago, "The First Lesson"), is a "monumental" building in Ise Jingu Shrine. Wikipedia:Characteristics of monument buildings: Located in a public space, with a striking image. It has an unusual size and uses durable materials such as stone and steel, so it has a meaning of eternity. Monuments can take shape in abstraction or figuration, but either way, they are highly idealized of a concept and principle. It can be seen that The Ise Jingu Shrine does not conform to the first two characteristics of monument architecture, and has a unique way. I am reminded of the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan, in 2015, China's Zhang Xinyu and Liang Hong, using architectural projection technology for three-dimensional restoration, sensationalized the world (information from Baidu). The above examples are the specific forms of digital technology (digital twin technology) and the social form of the metacosm. The wars and decades of catastrophe in our country's history have destroyed a large number of ancient buildings and cultural relics, and today's digital technology and meta-universe will make it possible for us to rebuild at the smallest cost. Yesterday, November 11, 2021, the National Museum of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Drumming Rap Clay Figurines", using composability technology, released digital artworks on the ant chain, lifelike, let us feast our eyes.

Zhang Sufujin

November 12, 2021