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“Archaeology, Artifacts and Art” 2024-25 Lecture Series: Professor LAI Guolong (2025/4/3)

Sponsored by Simon Suen Foundation, the “Archaeology, Artifacts and Art” 2024-25 Lecture Series will be held from November 2024 to April 2025. The Academy will curate a series of lectures on archaeology, history, artifacts and art in collaboration with experts and scholars locally and abroad, including esteemed researchers art collectors as well as connoisseurs. With the splendor of the pantheon, we endeavor to embark on a journey of discovery with international academics and students from different backgrounds. The Academy is honoured to invite Prof. LAI Guolong from Westlake University to speak with the below details:

Mountain and River Sacrifices, Daoist “Dragon-Casting” Rituals, and the Concepts of “Sin” and “Disease” in Early Chinese Religion

2025/4/3 | 16:00–17:00 | Conducted in Putonghua
Prof. Lai Guolong
Westlake University

The Zhejiang Provincial Museum’s recent exhibition “Casting Dragons: From Mountain and River Sacrifices to Daoist Sacred Landscape,” showcases cultural relics associated with the ancient Chinese practice of “casting dragons” (toulong 投龍). This religious practice, originating from the Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties, involved casting inscribed tablets of gold, silver, bronze, or jade, along with symbolic religious items, into revered mountains and rivers. A central theme throughout this ritual is the early Chinese religious interpretation of “guilt” and “illness.” This lecture will examine this interplay, drawing on archaeological evidence, including oracle bone inscriptions, Chu sacrificial records, and Qin jade tablets, as well as religious texts from the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties.

Participation

Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/asTYa7Yz6s
In-person Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology (SWT 702, Level 7, Shaw Tower, Shaw Campus)
*No online broadcast.

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