The exhibition China in Poetry and Painting: The Poetic Realm of Chinese Painting held at the Liaoning Provincial Museum has become a hit this winter. It has gathered national calligraphy and painting masterpieces from ten major cultural and museum institutions across China, drawing a steady stream of visitors from home and abroad.

The national-treasure painting Lady Guoguo’s Spring Outing, a star exhibit of this grand exhibition, has been displayed in the museum after a six-year hiatus, drawing crowds of admirers. What’s more, this time, its online digital collection will also be available to the general public.

At 12 pm on January 25, the digital collection of Lady Guoguo’s Spring Outing will be officially launched on Topnod. Users will be able to log in to Topnod, and acquire the digital collection of this art treasure, relishing the splendor of the flourishing period of the Tang Dynasty, and the millennia-old artistic craftsmanship in China.

The original Lady Guoguo’s Spring Outing was created by the Tang Dynasty painter Zhang Xuan. The extant painting is a facsimile from the Northern Song Dynasty, and is now a national first-class cultural relic. The silk painting scroll, measuring 51.8 cm in height, and 148 cm in length, represents the pinnacle of Tang Dynasty “Beauties Paintings”, and serves as a vital reference for later generations to understand the grandeur of the flourishing period of the Tang Dynasty, as well as its court life and painting techniques.

The issuance of this digital collection is a digital extension of the exhibition China in Poetry and Painting: The Poetic Realm of Chinese Painting. Leveraging blockchain technology, the form of digital artifact provides this national-treasure painting with a unique digital certificate, attaining permanent non-copyable and tamper-proof preservation. Based on high-definition data acquisition technology, the digital artifact fully reproduces the painting’s contours, colors, figure expressions, and the silk texture of the scroll, allowing viewers to appreciate the original painting at a millimeter level. Without coming to the museum, they can immerse themselves in the life scene of the flourishing period of the Tang Dynasty, where “embroidered silk robes shone in the late spring”.