Revamping Intangible Heritage, Starting with Face-Changing Memes

Chen Ke transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to the [National Trend Revival System]. In this world, where traditional Chinese culture is in decline, Chen Ke decides to try something different. So when people see... [Sichuan opera face-changing masks turning into reaction memes?] [Traditional shadow puppetry featuring Bald Qiang?!] [All kinds of traditional folk music getting remixed into dance-floor anthems?] [New Peking opera numbers: The Trial of Galileo and I Am the Pirate of the Caribbean] At that moment, nobody can keep their cool! “What kind of behavior is this? It's utterly uncultured…” “This is completely backward. I desperately need a word even more insulting than ‘the collapse of ritual and music’…” “Exile him to Lingnan!!!” “Our ancestors' ways must never change! Well, at least the tradition has been passed down…” “Passed down? More like passed down by a scoundrel!” But when Chen Ke's suona starts playing, the whole crowd goes wild! The Tang dynasty drops electronic beats, foreigners dance to Chinese club music, and in the end, this world goes gloriously off the rails! Bystanders: “Oh no, I've become a reactionary…”