Jia Yan, an art professor at Peking University in Beijing, came to the show on its opening day with her 14-year-old daughter. They went to the third floor of the museum first, where the relics of the tombs are displayed. However, her daughter found it a little bit difficult to engage, failing to feel the connection with the artifacts that her mother hoped for.

When the daughter entered the digital exhibition on the first floor, she immediately responded and told Jia that everything in the digital show related to the artifacts she viewed on the third floor. When Jia asked her daughter whether she would like to go back to take another look at the real relics, the teenager quickly said, "Yes."

"The show provides us with another way to present relic-related exhibitions. The three sections of the digital exhibition are like a typical three-act drama. It brings people from a state of shock back to one of tranquility or delight," Jia says.

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