As 2025 winds down, our Year-End Culture Salon is back 🎉. It’s a special AI-driven reunion where we bring together the most memorable cultural icons we’ve AI-brought to life all year.
First up: the Bronze Galloping Horse 🐎. This Han Dynasty (202 BC–AD 220) masterpiece was unearthed in Wuwei, once a hub on the Silk Road. Captured mid-leap, it looks like it’s flying on the wind—powerful, graceful, and full of motion. We first met it in our "When Relics Speak" series.
Next: Danglu, the 2,000-year-old horse headpiece from the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC–256 BC), now in Luoyang Museum. This protective forehead ornament went viral for looking just like Labubu, 2025’s hottest toy 🦄. Our AI-powered short "Is That Labubu?" showed how ancient design meets modern fandom.
Then there’s the Big-Eared General 🗿. One of over a thousand stone guardians built for the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) tombs in Gongyi, he now stands among golden wheat fields as the "wheat field watcher." In our AI video, he even had a trans-Pacific chat with Easter Island’s Moai!
Finally, meet the chubby "lucky boy" from Tianjin’s Yangliuqing New Year prints 🎊. This joyful woodblock print guardian made friends with a Persian cat, transformed into a New Year door guardian in our AI makeover clip.
Huge thanks to our guest stars and to Spencer Zhang, who’s been pulling all-nighters to make this year-end special happen. Stick around for behind-the-scenes fun—who knows what surprise AI reunion awaits next? 😉
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Year-end Culture Salon: A serendipitous reunion in the world of AI
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