Empowering Sichuan Intangible Cultural Heritage Translation Teaching Through Australian and New Zealand Indigenous Knowledge Graph Construction Technology: An Exploration of Enabling Pathways

Xiaoyu Chen

doi:10.70088/4pfvmg14

Authors

Xiaoyu Chen Jinjiang College, Sichuan University, Meishan, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70088/4pfvmg14

Keywords:

knowledge graph, cultural heritage, translation teaching, instructional reform, semantic transfer

Abstract

Since Sichuan's intangible cultural heritage (ICH) serves as the most vivid and substantial carrier of traditional Ba-Shu culture, the translation teaching of Sichuan ICH for international dissemination represents a natural and critically important component of effectively communicating China's cultural narrative to a global audience, thereby significantly enhancing the nation's cultural soft power. However, it remains undeniable that contemporary teaching practices consistently suffer from the serious bottleneck of highly fragmented educational resources. Because this paper directly addresses the persistent problems of monotonous instructional modes and the critical lack of precision in cross-cultural semantic transfer, it naturally leads into a comprehensive discussion of an open research project funded by the Sichuan International Science and Technology Cooperation (Australia--New Zealand) Research Institute. Within this context, advanced Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) Indigenous knowledge graph construction technology is systematically introduced, and its specific enabling pathways for optimizing Sichuan ICH translation teaching are clearly and rigorously laid out. The proposed theoretical and practical framework is robustly built upon three well-defined foundational pillars: three-chain integration for comprehensive resource consolidation, five-dimensional innovation for systemic instructional reform, and three-dimensional enhancement for maximizing global dissemination outcomes. Consequently, this study offers a highly innovative teaching paradigm in which technological drive, profound cultural interpretation, and comprehensive educational empowerment are seamlessly integrated to foster sustainable cultural heritage translation.

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