Analyzes creation of the Shan Hai Jing gods and monsters shape / 運用符號學觀點分析《山海經》神怪造形之創作研究

碩士 / 國立臺灣師範大學 / 設計研究所在職進修碩士班 / 97 / Shan Hai Jing is an encyclopaedia of ancient China which has eighteen chapters and thirty thousand words approximately. The first five chapters name Wu Zang Shan Jing, abbreviated name Shan Jing. Formerly the last thirteen chapters has no proper nouns, both Regions Beyond seas and regions within seas are the mainly scriptures that called Hai Jing as well. The phrases of Shan Hai Jing are simple and short statement, however, the content relates inclusive of everything. The descriptions are usually of geography, astronomy, meteorology, biology, mineralogy, medicine, water conservancy, archaeology, anthropology, oceanology, the history of technology, nationality, religion, mythology, etc. Scholar Guo Pu had mentioned that it’s hard to define Shan Hai Jing if you are not the most knowledgeable person of the world. It’s thus evident that widespread knowledge of content. Furthermore, there’re about 377 descriptions of appearance for gods and monsters (without foreign country and people). The most attractive part and cause everyone’s imagination in the book is descriptions of unusual appearances and multiplex features.

The viewpoint of Shan Hai Jin is probing into the theory of western semiotics in the research, and analyze combinations of symbols for structures descriptively. As many scholars thought, it proves objectively that Shan Hai Jing has the same style of statement. Moreover, it shows the condition of symbolic application and creation. The unusual symbolism is mixing false and true, it also includes the experience of observation and the symbolic significance which used by people for description or define everything of the world, even the way of pass down the history. Strictly speaking, they are different from general Chinese myths which are made up.

During the creation of this research, combining the myths of Shan Hai Jing and currently issues of Taiwan’s society via symbolism and re-coding. It’s not only a new annotation in creation, but also a metaphor of symbols. The innovative feature stimulates viewers’ emotions, and it would attract more people doing the research and creation at traditional Chinese culture.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/097NTNU5619039
CreatorsKang Po-kai, 康柏楷
ContributorsLiang Gui-jia, 梁桂嘉
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format113

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