From October 18 to 20, 2024, the 2024 Annual Conference of the China Institute of Legal History was successfully held in Fengqiao. The forum was hosted by the Annual Conference of Chinese Legal History and co-organized by Tsinghua University School of Law and Hangzhou Normal University Shen Junru Law Society. Renowned experts and scholars from esteemed institutions such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Fudan University, Xinjiang University, Jinan University, and others were invited to grace the conference with their presence and expertise as speakers.

The opening ceremony of the forum was presided over by Professor Nie Xin of the School of Law of Tsinghua University, and speeches were delivered by Wang Ying, Deputy Director of the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Wang Cheng, Deputy Secretary of the Zhuji Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and Professor Wang Hongfei, Dean of the Shen Junru Law School of Hangzhou Normal University. After the speeches, a group photo was taken. After all the guests took a group photo, the forum entered the keynote report and sub-forum report stages.

The paper "Water in Traditional Chinese Legal Culture" by Lin Xinyan, a doctoral student at the Law School of Beijing Normal University, is included in the collection of papers. This study aims to illustrate that "water" in traditional Chinese legal culture is actually rich in meaning, which is specifically reflected in the character "灋 (means law in Chinese)" itself. Even in modern times, even if "灋" is no longer used and the simpler "法" is used, it still retains the meaning of "water", a component of “灋”. This study not only explains it through "灋", but also demonstrates it through the character "經 (means longitude in Chinese)". "經" and "Water" still have an inseparable relationship, that is, the component "巠" is related to "water veins", and "經" also has the characteristics of "water". The so-called "经世济民" - governing the country and the people – means that "compatible" and "adaptive" policy must be adopted at both the national and people levels, from controlling water to governing the people and then to governing the country.