Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 195 International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 18) Dissemination Skills of Relics and Museology TV Programs —Taking "National Treasure" as an example Tianyao Wei, Mei Xie Center for Digitalized Culture and Media University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Abstract—"National Treasure" this program has been widely of Relics and Museology TV programs will be discussed in praised as soon as it was launched with its exquisite costumes, this paper with "National Treasure" as an example. props, stunt of star-keeper for national treasure, 27 top national treasures, a history-based rational and fictitious narration mode. II. ANALYSIS ON THE CONTENT AND CHARACTERIST ICS OF The vogue of this kind of Relics and Museology TV program, "NATIONAL TREASURE" which is characterized with serious topic, makes us see the possibility of success of Chinese traditional excellent cultures in A. The rise of Relics and Museology subjects modern environment. The content features and dissemination characteristics of "National Treasure", and the development "National Treasure" is positioned as a large history reality trend of Relics and Museology TV programs in the future are show of the Relics and Museology class. And it selects the top analyzed in this paper, hoping to provide certain reference 27 national cultural relics as a link between the past and the significance for the development of this kind of TV programs in present from ninth major national museums, such as the the future. Imperial Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, Nanjing Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, Henan Museum, Keywords—"National Treasure"; Relics and Museology Shaanxi History Museum, Hubei Provincial Museum, Programs; Variety; Dissemination Zhejiang Provincial Museum and Liaoning Provincial Museum for greeting 600 Anniversary of the Imperial Palace. I. INTRODUCTION And these 27 top national treasures are also selected from the "National Treasure", a Relics & Museology exploration superiors, and each museum can only choose one treasure for program about 27 top national cultural relics, was jointly participating the "National Treasure" Special Exhibition of the developed by CCTV and Central Record International Media Imperial Palace's 600-year itinerant exhibition. The program Co., Ltd. With culture as the core and variety as form, this group takes into account the cultural origin of five thousand program is still a reality show with documentary nature. Six years of China in the selection of museum; and these 27 episodes of "National Treasure" have been broadcasted in total cultural relics represent the typical features of their respective since the first episode was broadcasted in December 3, 2017; museums: the Imperial Palace represents the culture of the and it has accumulated hundreds of millions of playback on whole Chinese nation as a museum with the largest collections major network video platforms, such as Youku and Iqiyi, etc. in China, "Porcelain Mother" and "Stone Drum" that represent The score is up to 9.1 points on Douban. At the same time, the national treasure and Chinese context, as well as the "Map of topic discussion volume on micro-blog and other social media A Thousand Li of Landscape" in Song Huizong period are topics remains high. The celebrities who participated in selected; while Huibei, as the capital of Chu, selects "Chime "National Treasure" were listed on micro-blog's trending Bells", "Sword of Goujian" and "Yunmengshuihu Qin searches when the program was broadcast. In recent years, Bamboo Slips", which have typical regional characteristics. It CCTV has developed quite a few cultural programs, such as seems to show the cultural relics but aims to understand the "The Reader" and "Letters Alive", etc., which have gained Chinese civilization through them. There were similar great achievements. However, it was until around 2016 that programs with national treasure as theme in CCTV before, the Relics & Museology programs began to attract a lot of such as "Treasure Identification" and "National Archives". attention, which was broadcast from CCTV Documentary "I However, it's actually the first time that the museums, which repair the cultural relics in the Imperial Palace" to "National always have supercilious and aloof image, appear in the form Treasure" this year. 2017 can be called as the first year of of a variety show on TV. CCTV's literature and art programs[1]; it jumps out of the B. The expression form of variety as "outer shell" serious and high-end image in the past and attracts a large number of young audiences with high-quality and innovative Serious programs are increasingly incapable of attracting programs. The success of such sort of programs is beyond the young generation[2]. It is an inevitable problem, and this many people's anticipations. Although the development of situation will not change too much in a short period. Taking Relics and Museology TV programs is not long, there are variety as expression form becomes an important mean for TV quite little things worth studying. And the dissemination skills programs to attract audiences, even for "National Treasure". Just as the Relics and Museology programs before, audience Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 45 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 195 can only watch that an expert pours out words on all kinds of are transmitted in the deduction story of this life. What cultural relics, and the content is very obscure with stiff copper-gilding wood-core stirrup delivers is the legend of professional knowledge; it's hard to resonate with the audience. guarding the Silk Road, which is also in line with the thought "National Treasure" draws support from the typical variety of "The Belt and Road Initiative" advocated in today's society. mode of drama deduction to transform the original formal knowledge statement into a way of recombining statement and III. ANALYSIS ON THE DISSEMINATION CHARACTERISTICS OF pleasure. At the same time, "National Treasure" also utilizes NATIONAL TREASURE young expression of "roasting" for the introduction of cultural relics. The official roasts various colored vases in the reign of Only possessing high-quality program content but lacking Qianlong period as "farm-stay aesthetic" in episode of effective dissemination strategy is also not enough to be a "porcelain mother", selected by the Imperial Palace. But highly-praised program. The dissemination strategy of "National Treasure" is far more than this; personal attendance "National Treasure" is also worth studying. of nine museum curators ensures the professionalism of the A. Aggregated playback on multiple network platforms knowledge. In this way, Relics and Museology TV shows, which are presented with both cultural connotations and new The fortieth "statistical report on the development of and funny variety shows, naturally obtain high praise from China's Internet Network" issued by China Internet Network audience. Information Centre(CNNIC) in August 2017 reveals that the netizens in our nation are up to 751 million[4]. It means that C. Role-playing narration mode there is a large audience group on the network. All programs "National Treasure" chooses the role-playing narration of "National Treasure" can be watched online on four network mode in order to better show the preexistence of a cultural platforms--- Iqiyi, Tencent Video, Bilibili Barrage Video relic. The picture language can be better understood and Network and CCTV Network. And Iqiyi, Tencent and Bilibili accepted by audience than the text language in the are the video playback platforms aggregated with a large dissemination process. At the same time, the picture language number of young people. We can interact with other viewers can help the audience to build an unseen picture, and can also who watch the same program by sending "barrage"; it turns reduce the uncertainty caused by text. [3]In the fifth episode of the watching of “National Treasure" into acts with a variety of "National Treasure", Liaoning Museum recommends the "Gu meanings. Both the program watching and views exchange Kaizhi's Lo River Map, traced by Song", which creatively with others can be done. Such playback mode combined with combines the author of "Goddess Luo" - Cao Zhi and painter multiple network platforms can aggregate a large number of of "Lo River Map" - Gu Kaizhi in the same picture, and then a network users for "National Treasure", forming an extensive thorough dissemination is carried out therefrom. In this force of influence. dissemination, the audiences perceive Cao Zhi's sadness and B. Dissemination through public praise misery when he ransacked Goddess Lo; it also shows a "three wonders" master artist Gu Kaizhi, who was characterized with In multitudinous documentaries and Relics & Museology "wonderful painting, talent and crazy lovesickness". This role- programs of CCTV, it has to mention the three-episode playing way of narration makes the obscure parts alive. Based documentary broadcasted in 2016, "I repair cultural relics in on historical facts, the reasonable deduction not only gets a the Imperial Palace", which utilized the public praise for favorable program effect but also won't be criticized by the dissemination. And the earlier series of "A Bite of China" audience for not respecting history. were also included. There was no splash when "I repair cultural relics in the Imperial Palace" originally broadcasted in D. Storytelling narrative style CCTV; but it turned to be hot in BiliBili barrage video online "National Treasure" strives for presenting the through word of mouth from many young audiences. "preexistence" and "this life" of 27 top national treasures. The "National Treasure" conducts a series of organized word-of- program makers choose the storytelling for showing. On basis mouth guide in micro-blog, and the amount of reading with # of historical facts, it makes these facts stories and displays a national treasure # as micro-blog topic reached 1.3 billion, the complete story.