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<\/p>\nXi\u2019an, China, Oct. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A global short-video campaign titled \u201cA True Friend Remains Close at Heart, Though Miles Apart \u2014 Me, Tang Poetry, and AI,\u201d organized by Yangguang News and coordinated by its educational new media platform \u201cYouth and Homeland Letters,\u201d is gaining momentum. Teachers and students from Shaanxi University of Technology, Xi\u2019an Weibei Middle School, Xi\u2019an Gaoxin No. 1 Experimental High School, and other institutions have actively participated, combining Tang poetry studies with AI technologies. Using AI-generated artwork, video production, voiceovers, and editing tools, participants are transforming classical poetry into creative digital videos, exploring new ways to integrate traditional Chinese culture into education through digital technology.<\/p>\n
As the global youth short-video campaign \u201cA True Friend Remains Close at Heart, Though Miles Apart: Me, Tang Poetry, and AI\u201d\u00a0continues, young people from different educational levels are drawing on poetry as their foundation, transforming Tang poetry, with its thousand-year history, into vivid images and moving videos. Organized by Yangguang News and undertaken by\u00a0the educational new media platform \u201cYouth and Homeland Letters\u201d, the campaign has attracted active participation and creative contributions from teachers and students at institutions including Shaanxi University of Technology, Xi\u2019an Weibei Middle School and Xi\u2019an Gaoxin No. 1 Experimental High School. Through hands-on creative practice, participants are exploring the meaning of poetry, deepening their understanding of culture and demonstrating the vitality of innovative expressions of traditional culture.<\/p>\n
Shaanxi University of Technology: Putting AI at the Service of Poetry and Telling China\u2019s Stories Through the Imagery of Tang Poetry<\/p>\n
At Shaanxi University of Technology, the Student Affairs Department has used the campaign as a platform for cultural education and practical innovation, encouraging students to move from reciting Tang poetry to understanding and creating it. Qin Shaoxuan, the project coordinator, guided students throughout the creative process, emphasizing the principles of \u201cunderstand the poem before using the technology; establish the idea before creating the visuals.\u201d Students were encouraged to examine poetic imagery in depth and appreciate its emotional nuances, ensuring that technology served the poetry.<\/p>\n
Liu Xinyu based her work on Li Bai\u2019s The Phoenix Terrace at Jinling<\/i><\/i>. By incorporating negative prompts such as \u201cno modern buildings\u201d and \u201cno science fiction style,\u201d she adjusted the visuals line by line and carefully refined the voice-over pacing and background music to recreate the grandeur of the High Tang era and its sentiments toward the country.<\/p>\n
Su Bingjie focused on Meng Haoran\u2019s Visiting an Old Friend\u2019s Cottage<\/i><\/i>, using an elegant ink-wash style inspired by the High Tang period and understated compositions with ample blank space to convey the warmth of everyday life amid the rising smoke from a rural kitchen. She also incorporated the classic English translation by Xu Yuanchong, balancing poetic expression with international communication.<\/p>\n
Qin Shaoxuan summarized four key lessons from the experience: put culture first and technology to use; give creativity room to flourish; provide more opportunities for showcasing and exchanging ideas; and integrate aesthetic education with ideological and civic education.<\/p>\n
In her view, AI is merely a tool. What truly moves audiences is young people\u2019s love of poetry and their genuine desire to share China\u2019s stories with the world.<\/p>\n
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Xi\u2019an Weibei Middle School: A Four-Dimensional Approach to Integrating Poetry and AI, as Young People Reinterpret Classics Through Video<\/p>\n
Xi\u2019an Weibei Middle School advocates an educational approach that integrates technology and the humanities, fostering a creative environment that encourages exploration and allows room for trial and error.<\/p>\n
Teacher Zhou Limi introduced a \u201cfour-dimensional guidance approach.\u201d First, students analyze the artistic conception of a poem and identify its central imagery and emotional progression. Next, they select accessible tools such as Doubao, Jimeng AI and Jianying. Teachers then use open-ended questions to expand students\u2019 creative thinking. Finally, practical activities are organized at different levels so that students with varying levels of experience can all produce works they are satisfied with.<\/p>\n
Zhou emphasized that the campaign aims to enhance students\u2019 overall competencies, including cultural inheritance, interdisciplinary integration and aesthetic judgment.<\/p>\n
Teacher Lin Bingzi adheres to the principle that \u201cAI is the brush, but people are the ones who wield it.\u201d She places particular emphasis on developing students\u2019 aesthetic judgment and encourages teachers to treat instances in which AI-generated content goes off track as opportunities for learning. She recommends designing activities with a low barrier to entry but substantial room for advanced exploration, allowing mistakes to become stepping stones to growth.<\/p>\n
Students have produced works with distinctive approaches. Ren Yilin divided Du Fu\u2019s life into four periods, using poetry to connect the poet\u2019s concerns for his country and people. Through repeated revisions, Ren sought to present a more authentic portrait of the poet revered as the \u201cPoet Sage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luo Chenxi used Li Bai\u2019s Invitation to Wine<\/i><\/i>\u00a0to express youthful ambition and boldness, adjusting AI-generated movements and lighting frame by frame to preserve the poem\u2019s free-spirited character.<\/p>\n
Wu Junteng focused on a landmark in his hometown, using a poem by Cen Shen to portray the grandeur of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda and the spirit of the High Tang era, enabling young audiences overseas to discover the cultural heritage of Chang\u2019an.<\/p>\n
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Xi\u2019an Gaoxin No. 1 Experimental High\u00a0School: Educating Through Poetry and Bringing Classics to Life for a New Generation<\/p>\n
Teachers and students in the first and second years of high school at Xi\u2019an Gaoxin No. 1 Experimental High School have incorporated the campaign into their Chinese language classes without adding to students\u2019 extracurricular workload, advancing their creative projects in stages.<\/p>\n
Teacher Liu Huan follows the principle that \u201cthe artistic conception of Tang poetry is the soul, and AI technology is the bridge.\u201d She guides students to understand the text and analyze its imagery before translating their interpretations into prompts that AI can understand. The process focuses on developing students\u2019 textual interpretation, cross-media expression and cultural empathy.<\/p>\n
Teacher Gao Bing uses the metaphor of Pao Ding Jie Niu<\/i><\/i>\u2014the skilled butcher who effortlessly dissects an ox\u2014to emphasize the importance of understanding a poem before applying technology. Gao also provides a list of AI tools and upholds clear cultural boundaries to ensure that students neither distort the meaning of the poetry nor resort to vulgar forms of expression.<\/p>\n
Zhao Ziyue, a student in Class 6 of the first year of high school, chose Li She\u2019s P<\/i><\/i>oems on the Monk’s House at Helin Temple<\/i><\/i>, focusing on the shift in state of mind from confusion to acceptance and relief.<\/p>\n
She overcame challenges posed by AI video length limits and the difficulty of matching generated visuals to the poem\u2019s artistic conception. By refining prompts and adjusting color tones and lighting, she brought the temple, bamboo grove and emotional atmosphere of the poem together naturally.<\/p>\n
Recommending the poem to young people overseas, she said: \u201cThis poem contains the wisdom of everyday life valued by Chinese people. When you face difficulties with a different mindset, you may discover a different kind of light.\u201d<\/p>\n
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From universities to secondary schools, and from Chang\u2019an to the wider world, young people are using AI as their brush and poetic imagery as their ink, transforming classical works with a thousand-year history into expressions of youth for a new era through repeated experimentation.<\/p>\n
The campaign not only brings Tang poetry to life through video, but also allows cultural confidence to take root through the creative process. \u201cYouth and Homeland Letters\u201d welcomes more schools and young people to join this dialogue across a millennium, helping more young people around the world discover China\u2019s enduring cultural heritage through the integration of technology and the humanities.<\/p>\n
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