Yancheng Dream Digital Town: Touching the Salt Region's Cultural Heritage in a Digital Texture

The moment you step into Yancheng Dream Digital Town, it feels like entering a dialogue that spans ancient and modern times. The white walls and black tiles are arranged in an orderly fashion, with flying eaves and upturned corners still bearing the gentle marks of traditional residences in the Yancheng region. Meanwhile, the flowing digital light and shadow on the walls instantly pull you back to the present, full of a sense of technology. There is no noisy crowd here, only the gentle sound of the breeze brushing through the reeds, intertwined with the tapping of keyboards to form a unique melody. The core area of the town hides the salt culture code of Yancheng. The display walls along the street use digital projection to restore the busy scenes of ancient salt fields. The salt workers dressed in coarse cloth bend over to dry salt and carry loads vividly, making one almost smell the salty air. It should be noted that Yancheng has long been a treasure land known for its "benefits of fish and salt, unmatched in the world." Since the Han Dynasty, the salt fields here have supported the prosperity of the local economy. The salt warehouses and salt roads sleeping in the long river of history are now recreated through digital technology, with every detail telling the diligence and wisdom of the salt region's ancestors. Inside the Intangible Cultural Heritage Digital Experience Hall, the collision of tradition and modernity is eye-catching. Classic scenes of Huai Opera are presented three-dimensionally through holographic projection technology. Every expression of the actors and the flowing water sleeves are clearly visible, as if you are in a theater from a hundred years ago. Even more surprising is the interactive experience area in the hall, where visitors can "draw" Dongtai embroidered flowers by hand through gesture recognition technology, feeling the delicacy and intricacy of this intangible cultural heritage craft. These skills, once passed down face-to-face, now transcend time and space with the help of digital power, allowing more people to appreciate the charm of Yancheng's intangible cultural heritage. Strolling along the town's pathways, you can see landscape designs incorporating elements of salt culture everywhere. Street lamps modeled after salt crystals emit a soft glow at night, the stone carvings on the ground replicate patterns of ancient salt tickets, and even the shapes of benches are inspired by salt field tools. In a small exhibition hall around the corner, ancient salt utensils unearthed from salt field ruins are displayed. The patterns on the pottery jars remain clear. They stand silently, mutually confirming with the digital historical materials on the electronic screens nearby, allowing people to understand Yancheng's past and future in the intertwining of ancient and modern. When leaving, the sunset gilds the town's buildings with a golden edge, with digital light and shadow blending with the afterglow of the setting sun. This place is not only a gathering spot for technology and creativity but also a microcosm of Yancheng's cultural history. Every step holds a surprise, and every corner is worth savoring.