RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1981 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ff36bt18m BRO TSUNG LAI SHUN IN MASSACHUSETTS In Gratton and Ivy's History of Freemasonry in Shanghai and Northern China is an account of the formation of Union Lodge No 1951 EC of Tientsin. The first two paragraphs read: Freemasonry in Tientsin commenced its official life with the formation of this Lodge, and until the year 1902, it was the only Lodge working under the English Constitution. It is therefore the senior Lodge in Tientsin and its members have always taken a prominent and active part in the work of the Craft. In the early days it was no uncommon thing for the members residing in Taku, and Tongku to saddle their ponies and ride to Tientsin especially to attend the Lodge Meetings. In those days railways and Banks in this area were non-established, and the firm of Messrs. G. W. Collins and Co., were for years the Lodge bankers. The first meeting of the Lodge was held on the 7th January 1881, in the hall of the English Methodist Mission in Taku Road. Bro. A. B. Menzies, P.M. Doric Lodge, No. 1433, E.C. being in the Chair, Bro. J. Innocent, Newall Lodge, No. 1434, E.C. Acting Senior Warden, Bro. J.M. Moore, Doric Lodge, No. 1433, E.C. Acting Junior Warden, Bro. C.A. Schultz, Tuscan Lodge, No. 1027, E.C. Acting Senior Deacon, Bro. James Stewart, Tuscan Lodge, No. 1027, E.C. Acting Junior Deacon, Bro. T.G. Downey, St. John's Lodge, No. 34, U.S.A. [probably of Baltimore, Maryland] Acting Inner Guard, and Bros. G. Von Mollendorff, Germania Lodge, G.C. G.W. Collins, St. John's Lodge, No. 175, S.C. J.J. Hatch, Ionic Lodge, No. 1781, E.C., J.D. Addicks Ancient Landmark, Mass. Const., W. Swain, Ancient Landmark, and Tsung Lai Shun of Hampden Lodge, Massachusetts Constitution, This is the only reference in the book to Bro Tsung, and additional information has been sought. Bro Tsung is the first master mason of Chinese race known to have lived in China. Reprinted with permission from Chater-Cosmo Transactions (1980 vol. 2). See also Carl Smith, "Chan Lai-sun and his family: a 19th century China coast family", JHKBRAS 14 (1974). - Hon. Ed. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1985 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/gt54s866x 143 adult males until the deaths of their fathers, although in some Chinese villages it seems clear that severely punitive child-rearing practices also play a role. Clearly, the study of this cult in both Rome and China yields greater insights when viewed comparatively. There are undoubtedly many other topics that would profit from such an approach, and this paper will have served its purpose if it stimulates further efforts in this vein.82 NOTES CIL 6.26003. The system of citation employed in this paper conforms, for the classical sources, with that of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (1970), ix-xxii, and for periodicals with the relevant volume of L'année philologique. Note also: Jour. Amer. Folk. Journal of American Folklore The following abbreviations will also be used: Ahern (1973) = E. Ahern, The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village (Stanford, 1973) Bömer (1943) = F. Bömer, Ahnenkult und Ahnenglaube im alten Rom (Leipzig and Berlin, 1943) Cumont (1922) = F. Cumont, After Life in Roman Paganism (New Haven, 1922) de Groot (1892-1910) = J.J.M. de Groot, The Religious System of China, 6 vols. (Leiden, 1892-1910) de-Marchi (1896) = A. de-Marchi, Il culto privato di Roma antica, I (Milan, 1896) Feuchtwang (1974) = S. Feuchtwang, "Domestic and Communal Worship in Taiwan", in A.P. Wolf (ed.), Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society (Stanford, 1974), pp. 105-129 Fustel de Coulanges (1874) = N. Denis Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City (Boston and New York, 1874) Goody (1962) = J. Goody, Death, Property and the Ancestors (Stanford, 1962) Harrell (1976) = S. Harrell, "The Ancestors at Home: Domestic Worship in a Land-poor Taiwanese Village", in W. H. Newell (ed.), Ancestors (The Hague and Paris, 1976), pp. 373-385 Hsu (1967) = F.L.K. Hsu, Under the Ancestors' Shadow (Garden City, N.Y., 1967) Jordan (1972) = D.K. Jordan, Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors (Berkeley, 1972) ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1985 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/gt54s866x 144 Lattimore (1942) Ogilvie (1969) Rel. & Rit. Toynbee (1971) Wolf (1974) Wolf (1976) Wolf and Huang (1980) Yang (1945) JOHN KARL EVANS R. Lattimore, Themes in Greek and Latin Epitaphs (Urbana, Ill., 1942) = R.M. Ogilvie, The Romans and Their Gods in the Age of Augustus (London, 1969) A.P. Wolf (ed.), Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society (Stanford, 1974) = J.M.C. Toynbee, Death and Burial in the Roman World (London, 1971) = A.P. Wolf, “Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors”, in A.P. Wolf (ed.), Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society (Stanford, 1974), pp. 131-182 = A.P. Wolf, "Aspects of Ancestor Worship in Northern Taiwan", in W.H. Newell (ed.), Ancestors (The Hague and Paris, 1976), pp. 339-364 - A.P. Wolf and Chieh-shan Huang, Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945 (Stanford, 1980) = M.C. Yang, A Chinese Village: Taitou, Shantung Province (New York, 1945) Translations have been provided by the author for those passages quoted from the Greek and Latin. 2 Cf. CIL 5.1813 (Gemona), where the formula has been shortened to N.F.N.S.N.C; Lattimore (1942), 84 n. 473 plausibly suggests that the second F has been carelessly omitted. 3 The formula appears in slightly modified forms in such disparate communities as Lambaesis in Africa (CIL 8.3463 = ILS 8162), and Lactora in Aquitania (CIL 13.530 = ILS 8163). 4 Epigr. Gr. 595 – IG Rom. 1.313. Cf. Epigr. Gr. 1117 (Bologna), and IG 14.2190 (Rome), where the translation of the Latin formula is still more precise. All of these despairing epitaphs are reminiscent of the teachings of Lucretius, and will remind students of Chinese philosophy of the views on life and death espoused by Wang Ch'ung (A.D. 27 - 97?). He also scoffed at the notion of consciousness after death: "if we suppose that after death a man becomes a ghost, there would be a ghost on every road, and at every step. Should men appear as ghosts after death, then tens of thousands of ghosts ought to be seen. They would fill the halls, throng the courts, and block the streets and alleys, instead of the one or two which are occasionally met with." See A. Forke, Lun-Heng 1. Philosophical Essays of Wang Ch'ung, 2nd ed. rep. (New York, 1962), 193. It therefore follows that sacrifices are useless: "ghosts and spirits are insensible of joy and anger. People may go on sacrificing to them for ever, or completely disregard and forget them, it makes no difference." (Forke 1.524). One Greek inscription, from Astypalaea, requests that food and drink not be brought to the grave, for "corpses have no need for the things of the living:" see J. Geffcken, Griechische Epigramma (Heidelberg, 1916), no. 209. Forke discusses the similarities between Wang Ch'ung and Lucretius at length (supra, 1.13-29); readers unfamiliar with Han philosophy will profit from the brief discussion of Wang Ch'ung in M. Loewe, Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period (202 B.C. — A.D. 220) (London, 1982), 12-14, 35-36, 68-70, and 89-90. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1997 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/wp98g7579 144 collected history of the enclave. REFERENCES Brito, R. de S.: 1962, Imagens de Macau Agencia General do Ultramar, Lisboa Duncan, C.: 1987, "Development of Macau's City Landscape" in Macau, City of Commerce and Culture R.D. Cremer, ed. UEA Press, Hong Kong Hong Kong Museum of Art: 1996, Views of the Pearl River Delta Urban Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hurley, R.C.: 1898, Tourist Guide to Canton and Macau Ch'eng Wen Publishing Company, Taipei, reprinted 1973 Pires, B.V.: 1987, "Origins and Early History of Macau" in Macau, City of Commerce and Culture R. D. Cremer, ed. 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