Yangguang News Launches Global Youth Tang Poetry Video Campaign

Xian, China, Oct. 24, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- The initiative, organized by Yangguang News and the educational new media platform “Youth and Homeland Letters,” aims to engage young people worldwide in the innovative dissemination of China’s outstanding traditional culture through digital media.

The campaign has garnered significant participation, with 31 co-organizing institutions coming together and responses from 126 universities, primary schools, and secondary schools. Since its launch, more than 100 short video submissions have been received. Participants have selected Tang poems from various perspectives, including images of mountains and rivers, frontier poetry, homesickness, and themes concerning the country and society. Using artificial intelligence, they have created visuals, constructed scenes, produced voice-overs, and translations, transforming written poetry into audiovisual works suitable for distribution on digital platforms.

Zhong Yi, a Grade 10 student from Class 8 at Xi’an Gaoxin No.1 Experimental High School, chose Li Bai’s Hard Is the Way to Shu as the basis for his work. Using artificial intelligence, he presented the magnificent and precipitous landscapes of Shu described in the poem. He hoped to transform the sense of awe brought by the poem into images that audiences could see, allowing young people overseas to learn about China’s natural landscapes and cultural imagination through Tang poetry.

Grade 11 students Xu Zihe and Yang Yifan from the same school created works based on Cen Shen’s Song of the Running Horse River in Farewell to General Feng on His Western Expedition. Through video, they presented the frontier environment and the lives of soldiers stationed there. While developing a renewed understanding of the poem’s meaning, the students also attempted to explain its emotions and values to overseas audiences in contemporary language.

Yangguang News has established an overseas distribution network, publishing and promoting outstanding works through platforms including TikTok and YouTube. As of September 2026, more than 20 works had each received over 100,000 views on overseas platforms, while the related content had accumulated nearly 6 million overseas views in total. The overseas distribution has not only expanded the reach of the campaign but has also provided new avenues for young people around the world to learn about Tang poetry, respond to it, and participate in its reinterpretation and recreation.

In August 2025, Xi’an proposed building itself into a “City of Tang Poetry,” promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of Tang poetry culture. Starting in Xi’an, the campaign brings together the city’s cultural resources, school-based educational settings, artificial intelligence technology, and international communication channels to explore new ways of disseminating traditional culture to young people.

The campaign was initiated by Yangguang News in January 2026 and undertaken by Youth and Homeland Letters. The judging process involves scholars from China and abroad, outstanding teachers, and other participants. Works must center on Tang poetry, be original, and be submitted in either landscape or portrait video format. The official platform is the Youth and Homeland Letters WeChat Official Account.