Part Three: The Modern Era: Contemporary Culture and Art

[Overview of the Era] Three thousand years after Stargate Calendar, the known public network has entered a long-term stable development stage. War, migration, post-war reorganization and the public road system still have a profound impact on modern society, but the focus of cultural activities has gradually expanded from post-war memory, road ethics and large-scale historical narratives to local life, urban experience, cross-ethnic relations, ordinary families, the professional world, educational growth, environmental adaptation, mechanical consciousness, dream life and the daily experience of earth dwellers. By the time of Stargate Calendar around 12760, it was known that a relatively mature cultural production system had been formed in the public network. Weien Star, Jiuyan Star, Chenlu Star, Luojia Star, Qingqiong Realm, Thousand-Dream Interspace, Almu Star, Moranjia Realm, Queluojian, Mirror Chaojian, Philoland and other areas all have relatively influential publishing, drama, music, architecture, imaging, dream patterns, festivals and public art institutions. Although many medium-sized life stars, small circles, places and places are not located in the main cultural centers, they have entered the modern cultural network through local schools, regional theater groups, public libraries, festival markets and remote performances. The basic characteristic of modern culture is not homogeneity. The Stargate network, distance education, and cross-world trade have expanded cultural circulation, but local language, environment, life forms, and historical memory still determine local art forms. Luojia Xinghai Port Music, Beichen Star Hanyuan Long Song, Thousand-Dream Interspace Dream Pattern Drama, Que Luojian Low-light Silent Drama, Almu Star Mechanical Rhythm, Messatu Star Water Power Drama, Ruomudi Tree Bridge Narrative and Weien Star Bookstore Literature all maintain a high degree of recognition in modern public culture.

【Publishing and Popular Literature】 The modern publishing system is centered around Weien Star, Jiuyan Star, Chenlu Star and Nanhu Star. Weien Star has long preserved the tradition of bookstores. North Bookstore, South Bookstore, Sanyuan Library and Cangqiong Bookstore together form the core of the modern publishing and academic collation system. Weien's publications are known for their rigor, full annotations, and clear editions. Public law textbooks, general history, register studies, cross-lingual dictionaries, medical archive selections and local chronicles have long been dominated by the Weien Publishing Department and the Library Trust. Jiuyanxing is famous for its materials, craftsmanship and popular publishing. Inkstone City, Baizhi Port, Jiumo Town and Record Crystal Workshop produce large quantities of writing materials, record crystals, teaching books, cheap readers and public school supplies. Eight thousand years after the Stargate Calendar, the Old Inkstone gradually transformed from a source of materials to a center for popular reading. Its publications are low-priced and widely circulated, and are often used for basic education in marginal areas and town reading. Chenlu Star's publishing features come from immigrant society and local history traditions. Gongdeng City, Lunan City and Haida Port preserve a large number of archives of families who moved after the war. Shenlu Publishing House has long published family histories, local oral narratives, school readers and memoirs of ordinary residents. Between the 9th and 11th millennium of the Stargate Calendar, Chenlu Star developed the "shared lamp narrative", emphasizing ordinary families, moving communities and school life as literary themes. Although its representative author Qi Wangchuan is famous for his historical research, his early "Gongdeng City Immigration Archives" and "Ordinary People's Post-War" also influenced modern documentary literature. Modern popular literature has a wide range of themes. In the early post-war period, Hengguang survivors, the Battle of Stargate, the reorganization of defeated areas and public road courts were the most common themes. Five thousand years after Stargate Calendar, campuses, docks, moving families, life span partners, mechanical consciousness, dream dwellers, underground schools and ordinary professions gradually enter the center of literature. Nine thousand years after the Stargate Calendar, the local revitalization trend has promoted the writing of a large number of local language novels, food essays, urban chronicles, professional literature, and family histories. Weien writer Ai Su was active around the 1200s and 300s of the Stargate Calendar. His major works include "Evening in the North Book City", "Sanyuan Street" and "The Man Who Files Slowly". His works mostly write about little people in the bookstore, archivists, students, translators and foreign scholars. His works are written in plain language and have great influence among readers of Weien, Shen Lu, Nan Hu and Jiu Yanxing. Shen Lu novelist Pan Luming is famous for "After a Night of Shared Lights", "Haitian Port Summer Class" and "Lunan Old Dormitory". His works focus on the identity changes of the second and third generations of relocation families. Youjujian writer Zhe Xian writes with a non-linear structure. His representative work "The Second Corridor" has long attracted the attention of literary researchers because of its use of the sense of time that reflects life. Modern literature does not exclude heroes and war themes, but such themes no longer dominate the mainstream. Many readers pay more attention to stories close to their own lives: studying abroad, cross-ethnic classmates, vocational qualification exams, the choice between hometown and place of residence, the maintenance cycle of mechanical citizens, memory preservation of dream families, love and etiquette in low-light neighborhoods, growth records of tree-based schools, etc. Popular literature has thus become an important material for observing modern social life.

【Drama and Video】 Modern theater is formed from the convergence of many traditions. Luojia has long preserved the tradition of port opera, houseboat drama and tidal festival performances. Troupes from Baichaomen Port, Nanting City and the old boathouse area are good at expressing ordinary life through polyphonic chorus, tidal rhythms and the spoken language of port workers. Stargate Calendar Around 8700, Luojia director Bai Chaoyan promoted a "port area reality drama", writing freight delays, port workers' families, cross-world caravans, foreign students and port accident reviews onto the stage. His works "Night Shift in Nanting", "Under the White Tide Bell" and "The Third Warehouse" have been performed in many port cities. Weien Star drama values ​​textual and argumentative traditions. Bookstore theaters often use court rooms, academic palaces, archives and public meetings as scenes, with dense language and strict structure. "Three Questions on the List" by Weien playwright Su Lin'an is based on the triple roster system, and presents post-war identity issues through the file disputes of a conscript from a defeated area, a teacher of Hengguang survivors, and a public register clerk. The play has long served as discussion material in public law schools. Beichen Star drama is closely related to Hanyuan Changge. Lin Shuoxue was an important modern playwright in Beichen Star. He was active around the 124th century in the Stargate Calendar. His works "Winter Lessons in White Plains", "Letter from Shitai City" and "The Eve of Astrology Festival" mostly write about schools in Hanyuan, pastoral migration, stargazing families and scholars who left their hometown to study. Beichen theater often uses long narratives and choruses, with a slower pace and emphasis on memory and seasons. Thousand-Dream Interspace Thousand-Dream Interspace Thousand-Dream Interspace is one of the most special forms of modern drama. Dream pattern drama does not entirely rely on stage and actors, but is composed of dream patterns, memory fragments, consciousness echoes and audience participation. Thousand-Dream Interspace Echo Theatre, First Dream Court and Weilan Street Theater Band have long-term performances of Dream Patterns. Artist Lan Xi's "One Hundred Mornings" is considered a representative work of modern dream pattern art. This work is composed of morning memories of a hundred different lives. The order in which the audience sees them is related to their own dream pattern state, so there are differences every time they watch it. Silent drama in the dark is related to low-light environments. Low-light street and silent theater bands are often performed in extremely low lighting conditions, with actors using movements, shadow patterns, breaths and short whispers to express the plot. Bright lights, loud sounds, and excessive mental stimulation are considered crude techniques in Queluo Theatre. Queluo artist An Ying's "Three Days on Low-Light Street" received high praise at the Earth Culture Festival because it showed the process of outsiders adapting to low-light society. Modern imaging technology is greatly affected by different life forms. Ordinary visual images are suitable for most physical life, but are not sufficient for dream life, low-light life, mechanical consciousness and refracted life. Therefore, modern images are often divided into flat images, immersive images, dream images, memory images, low-light images, mechanistic images and multi-modal translation images. A large number of such works are preserved in Almu Xing Lengcheng Image Theater, Mirror Chaojian Identity Theater Area, Thousand-Dream Interspace Dream Pattern Art Center and Weien Image Library. Among the video themes, historical dramas, family dramas, school dramas, port dramas, sect occupational dramas, earthly suspense dramas, robot citizen dramas and medical dramas are the most common. Stargate is not the only subject of modern imagery. Many works only use Stargate as a background facility, and really focus on the lives of residents in cities, schools, hospitals, workshops and families.