Old tales told anew

Beijing's Palace Museum launches yet another smartphone app to help younger people understand Chinese history and culture better. Wang Kaihao reports.

Technology has made an ancient painting come alive.

Last week, Beijing's Palace Museum released its smartphone app, Night Revels of Han Xizai, in order to provide a vivid multimedia account of the five-part scroll painting by the same name. The painting is part of a collection that's housed among the museum's some 53,000 pieces of traditional Chinese paintings.