Re-Empowerment of Intangible Cultural Heritage under the Meta-Cosmos: The Case of Dunhuang Cave Art

Abstract

Intangible cultural heritage in Dunhuang cave art is now suffering from a lack of interest feedback, insufficient social awareness, and insufficient media utilization leading to difficulties in transmission and non-transmission; this article argues whether the concept of metaverse can be combined with new media forms to re-empower Dunhuang cave art, exploring its possibilities and expecting methods of implementation. The article is based on a desktop research methodological argument to explore the empowerment of Dunhuang cave art in the context of the metaverse, which explores and builds a worldview of NFT heritage in the metaverse world and obtains offline experiences such as cultural and creative products, offline cave experiences, and NFT cultural exchanges by combining the virtual world of NFT collections, virtual tours, and virtual learning of NFT techniques in exchange for tokens. We are willing to break the barrier between reality and virtual, link the stagnation and empowerment of NFT culture. The article concludes that it is feasible and reasonable to realize the empowerment of intangible cultural heritage under the Meta-Cosmos.