바다와 하늘이 통하다 — 중국 서사 속 천문학적 상상력

Abstract

In this paper, we studied ancient Chinese thinking about space, astronomical imagination, and the transition process of space travel stories, focusing on the story of traveling to space in Chinese epic. In ancient China, it was thought that the sea and the Milky Way were connected, but the space travel narrative began with the idea that the sea and the Milky Way were connected. Representative works include the story of Fu-cha(浮槎) in the book Bo-wu-zhi(博物志) by the author Zhang-Hua(張華). In this story, the main character sees a raft that appears every August and goes into space to meet Qian-niu(牽牛) and Zhi-nu(織女). In the story, astronomer Yan-Zun(嚴遵) appears as evidence that the main character traveled in space, and not only the relationship between Taoism, astronomy, and astrology, but also the ideas of Chinese astronomy. Later, the story of space travel was overlaid with the narrative of Zhang-Qian(張騫), a Western explorer, and space expanded into another world and turned into a more attractive narrative. As the narrative of space travel continued to change, another work was created during the Ming-Qing Dynasty of China. In the work Jian-hu-ye-fan-ji(鑑湖夜泛記), the space appears as a space of desire that reflects the artist's ideology, and in the work Hai-tian-xing-ji(海天行記), it is also an expanded space that reflects the historical situation of the time.