Conference scene (Photo by Lin Yingling)
LNU Press Center News: On November 5, a high-end academic forum on Chinese traditional culture and regional culture jointly sponsored by Lingnan Normal University (LNU) and University of Macau (UM) was held in our university. Thirty experts and scholars from 18 universities and colleges in Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese mainland gathered to discuss traditional Chinese culture and regional culture.
"The launch of high-end academic forum on Chinese traditional culture and regional culture will inject cultural color into the school's development and cultural research work, provide new driving force for progress, bring new vitality and create new achievements." Wang Hengyin, Deputy Secretary of Party Committee and Secretary of Committee for Discipline Inspection of LNU attended the forum. According to his speech, tradition and modernity, regions and the whole, are all ways of viewing and examining culture from different perspectives. Traditional Chinese culture is the inexhaustible source of other splendid Chinese cultures, and the regional cultural construction is an important part of national cultural construction. Accurately discussing, studying and focusing on a specific heterogeneous culture in regional culture is a certain reaction of a country and nation to the overall characteristics and development trend of culture, which can provide guidance and sustainable development programs for regional cultural construction.
Professor Wei Chuxiong, advisor of the Chinese History and Culture Center of UM, delivered a speech to praise the simple folk customs in western Guangdong and the good academic atmosphere of our school. In his opinion, there is an economic and cultural gap between the Pearl River Delta and western Guangdong. All schools and regions should actively carry out academic and cultural exchanges and promote cultural and cultural exchanges so as to better study Chinese traditional culture and regional culture and make due contributions to the research and dissemination of Chinese traditional culture.
The forum is divided into two phases, focusing on Macau and Zhanjiang respectively with 4 themes, including "The Macroscopic Concept of Chinese Traditional Culture and Regional Culture", "Traditional Culture and Classical Exposition" and "Regional Cultural Studies and Social Studies". Experts and scholars presented nearly 30 academic reports with novel and unique views, covering literature, history, politics and other knowledge areas. They also had wonderful and heated discussions. The opening ceremony was presided over by Associate Professor Jing Dongsheng, Deputy Director of the Department of History of the College of Law and Political Science of LNU. Professor Yu Weiqing from the Department of History, Professor Zhou Yongwei from the School of History and Culture of South China Normal University, Professor Wei Chuxiong from the Research Center of Chinese History and Culture of UM, and Professor Li Chaojin from the Department of History of Hong Kong Shue Yan University presided over the four sessions of group presentations.
Professor Lei Dongwen, Professor Shen Youliang, Associate Professor Zeng Guofu, Dr. Sun Jianwei, Dr. Zhang Guang and Dr. Lai Caihong from the Department of History of LNU and Associate Professor Chen Guowei from the Lingnan Culture Research Institute made keynote speeches at the meeting. Professor Hao Yufan, Director of the Chinese Historical and Cultural Center of UM, believes that Macau's culture is characterized by roundabout, well-adapted, and without direct conflict; it can exist in harmony with other cultures. Professor Shi Yadang from the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology of Hong Kong Baptist University introduced the principles and systems of divination in ancient China, and extended to the allusive culture of China from the topic of divination in the Book of Changes. Professor Li Chaojin from of Hong Kong Shue Yan University discussed the relationship between culture, society, history and reform based on the debate between traditional culture and modern culture before the New Culture Movement by exploring Yong Yan Magazine and Jia Yin Magazine. Xie Youtian, a Distinguished Professor of Sichuan University, took "Traditional Culture and the Trend of Modern China" as the topic to set forth the mutual influence and change between traditional culture and rural society since modern times. Professor Ye Nong, Dean of Macau Research Institute of Jinan University, elaborated the relationship and origin between Lingnan Culture and Central Plain Culture, and believed that Lingnan Culture was influenced by the Central Plain Culture. Zhou Yongwei, Professor from the School of History and Culture of South China Normal University, expounded the status of culture of Madam Xian in traditional Chinese culture in the Greater Bay Area from the perspective of culture of Madam Xian.
This forum is a cross-disciplinary academic event jointly held by the two universities. The one-day conference was compact and rich in content; participants put forward both local case studies and macroscopic theoretical discussions, and traditional inquiry and horizontal comparison were involved. The forum content has both positive theoretical significance and important practical value, fully reflecting the scholars' profound professional research and profound patriotism.
Wang Hengyin, Deputy Secretary of Party Committee and Secretary of Committee for Discipline Inspection of LNU, delivers a speech (Photo by Liu Zhiyin)
Representatives deliver speeches (Photo by Chen Danlin, Chen Wenjing)
Group photo (Photo by Liu Zhiyin)
