AIGC-Empowered Digital Regeneration and Dissemination ofEndangered
Canton-Enamel Patterns
Zhang Jun Huang Ting
(1. Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510000, Guangdong Province, China)
[Abstract] From their inception, Canton- enamel patterns have never been mere appendages of decoration. Instead, they function as visual media undertaking cross-cultural translation within the trade mechanism of "custom-made by supplied samples". In contemporary contexts, this pattern system faces dual dissonance in ontological inheritance and communication: veteran craftsmen have passed away one after another, manuscript lineages have been scattered and lost, and craft knowledge as well as pedigree contexts of the patterns vanish alongside the damage of physical carriers. Museum exhibitions and catalogue publications have solidified the representational modes of such patterns, making it difficult for them to enter contemporary media environments and the everyday perception of young audiences. This paper argues that the value of AIGC intervention lies not in restoration or static archiving, but in restoring the communicability of patterns as living cultural symbols. Drawing on empirical findings from recent studies on the export-trade history and iconographic evolution of Canton enamel, this article proposes a three-tier pathway of "Identification, Regeneration,- Dissemination.” It advocates that generation should be premised on lineage constraints formed by vessel shapes, historical periods and painter schools, and draws a strict distinction between "generation" and "arbitrary fabrication". Meanwhile, this paper stresses that intelligent regeneration must take traceability, distinguishability and modifiability as its ethical baseline. Technology cannot replace craft ontology and embodied memory embodied in oral history.
[Keywords] Canton enamel; endangered patterns; AIGC; digital regeneration; cross- media communication
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