Mural painting of four animals in clouds, collected by Henan Museum

Topic: Dragon and Chinese culture

Speaker: Luo Erhu, professor and doctoral supervisor of college of history and culture, Sichuan University

Date: at 3:00pm on April 8

Location: Multi-function hall 

How to Attend: Please scan the code below to skip to the Museum's WeChat official account , and make your reservation!

             
Tel: 0371-63582521

China is regarded as the hometown of dragon, and Chinese people are called as “descendants of the dragon”. Chinese nation has a long history of dragon totem adoration, and as early as over 7000 years ago, our ancestors in Neolithic period has begun to worship dragon totem on the basis of actual creatures and natural phenomena. Through the evolvement of thousands of years, today Chinese people still use idioms and literary quotations with the word “dragon” to covey their longing for life to be better, and “dragon culture” has run through all fields including politics, literature, art and so on, which has been a significant part of Chinese civilization.

What are the characteristics of China’s “dragon culture”? And how it has been formed and developed? Why it is strongly interlinked to Chinese civilization? Join professor Luo’s lecture on April 8, and you will find the answers!