I spent about a week creating an immersive interactive webpage featuring West Lake in the Southern Song Dynasty, built around Panoramic Prosperity of West Lake — a Southern Song handscroll separated from China and lost overseas for more than a century.
🌐Website Development: GPT5.5+Codex @codex
🎦Video Production: Claude design @claudeai
The site is divided into four chapters:
Enter the Scroll
Cruise the Lake
Traces Through Time
Inquire of the Lake
Enter the Scroll: Panoramic Guide to Southern Song West Lake
·Glimpse the full topography of West Lake as it stood 800 years ago
·Original painting base marked with key landmarks and twelve scroll segments
·Click each segment to jump into its scene
·MVP preview:
3 interactive zones (Giant Buddha at Jushi Mountain; Temples & Chancellor’s Mansion on Geling Hill; Four Saints Yanxiang Temple on Gushan Island)
Cruise the Lake: Immersive Long Scroll Journey
·Freely pan and explore the high-resolution scroll
·Southern Song landmarks labelled; click to open knowledge cards
·Every card features site intro, Southern Song records, present-day location and historical value
·MVP contains 18 landmark entries; more content coming soon
Traces Through Time: 800 Years of the Scroll’s Journey
·Trace the complete lifecycle of this ancient artwork
Timeline:
·Southern Song creation → Yuan & Ming colophons → Qing collection & appraisal → modern exile overseas → 21st-century academic research
·One timeline tells the painting’s 800-year odyssey
Inquire of the Lake: Life & Scenery of Southern Song West Lake
·Visual cards showcasing 24 Solar Term customs, folk culture and little-known scroll trivia
·Bringing ordinary life on ancient West Lake back into view
This is still an MVP build. The core framework and key interactive experiences are now functional.
In this AI era, I keep experimenting with digital approaches to bring history, culture and in-depth cultural tourism to life.
Wish to let more people see and understand the breathtaking landscapes and heritage of China.
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