蒲松齡의 문학적 사유에 나타난 벌레 이미지

Abstract

In Chinese narratives, worms were primarily considered to be the source of disease. Linked to regional prejudices and cultural interpretations, insects have become one of the ways of imagining the South. The place outside of the Middle Plains and untouched by Confucianism was imagined as a place full of insects, and from this the south became a dirty and barbaric place. The question of how to govern the insect became a test bed for judging the politics of the hypocrites, and the worm became a mysterious being that perceives good politics and became a mechanism for projecting various desires of reality. The image of the insect appeared in more variety in the literature of the Pu Song Ling. Pu Song Ling used the insect motif in different techniques depending on the genre. In Liaozhai Zhiyi, the insect is still portrayed as the source of the disaster, but it shows the ending of the story of escaping the worm’s disaster through Causal reporting and the sacrifice of a foreign object. On the other hand, in poetry and prose, he denounced the plague of insects that still can not be overcome, and expressed the negative emotions felt by human beings, such as dirt, ugliness, and smell, in literature. Pu Song Ling used dirty and smelly insects as the source of his creation, showing a literary imagination that orthodox writers did not deal with.