The Department of Media Scenography at the School of Cross-Media Art, China Academy of Art was founded by Mou Sen in 2015. Based on narrative engineering, the department constructs media perspectives. Corresponding to space and time, it presents unfolding and evolution through exhibition and performance. The creative categories oriented toward space and time are megastructures and series. Through the integration of industry, academia, and research, as well as industrial chains, and by means of cross-media, cross-disciplinary, and cross-domain approaches, it focuses on specific industry orientations, emphasizes media convergence and domain integration, and excels in constructing comprehensive narrative sequences. The cross-media megastructure Gaomi Northeast Township is an integral part of the original stage play Red Sorghum Family project by Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts. Performance and exhibition are intertwined as one. Co-produced by Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts and the School of Cross-Media Art, China Academy of Art, the project is created by the Department of Media Scenography. There are multiple possibilities for the visual transformation of Chinese literary classics. Beyond performance, what role does exhibition play? Red Sorghum Family is the first full-length novel by Mo Yan and a significant territory of his fictional literary republic, “Gaomi Northeast Township.” Sky, land, rivers, and roads; labor, love and hatred, sacrifice, and reproduction; colors and scents; disasters, changes, and the passage of eras. Mo Yan’s “Gaomi Northeast Township” constructs a unique genealogy. This genealogy is regional, geographical, and even geological. As Aristotle said, “Nature does nothing in vain.” The exhibition takes the script of Red Sorghum Family as its text, names itself after “Gaomi Northeast Township,” adopts the display form of natural museum specimen cabinets, frames itself with origins and genealogy, embraces anthropology and geology as its concepts, and sets out to present a human panorama. The specimen serves as the core concept of this exhibition. Natural museum specimen cabinets, also known as dioramas, geologicalize and familialize the scenes and settings from Red Sorghum Family. They transform the landscape of “Gaomi Northeast Township” into a natural museum and specimens. The exhibition consists of twenty standard “dioramas” from natural history museums, depicting twenty scenes and settings from the novel Red Sorghum Family. These twenty scenes and settings connect to form a collective, presenting a specimen-like panorama of “Gaomi Northeast Township.” This exhibition is supported by the 2025 National Social Science Fund Art Key Project Frontier Research on the Integration of Arts and Sciences in the Field of Fine Arts (25AF016).