The Deconstruction and Reinterpretation of Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) by the Scholars before the Establishment of R.O.C. / 民國以前學者對《山海經》的解構與重釋

博士 / 輔仁大學 / 中國文學系 / 106 / The thesis takes "deconstruction" and "restatement" as the core of the topic. It means that it focuses on the process of re-understanding created by the descendants after reading Shan Hai Jing. The term "reinterpretation", in most cases, can be used as "interpretation," which is an important method of Western ideological trends. Although "hermeneutics" in modern sense did not exist in the old China, it does not mean that there is no reading behavior like "interpretation", "understanding" or "extension" in traditional Chinese academic. Furthermore, the ancient literati continued the tradition of interpreting Classics, created a large number of rich and colorful classic annotation works. All of these show the interpretation way in China. However, Scholars paid more attention on interpreting "Confucian scholars" since ancient times. In their own traditional academic background (such as "Confucianism"), when transferring the interpretation topic from the study of Confucian to the works like Shan Hai Jing, through the bizarre narrative style in this book, all of them couldn't but abandon their traditional view and respectively developed their own unique characteristics of interpretation.
In the eyes of modern scholars engaged in the study of Chinese mythology, Shan Hai Jing does have the value of being a mythical text. However, when the ancients were confronted with the content of Shan Hai Jing full of "bizarre narrative", they were immersed and wandered into the wording of "virtual" and "real". During the period when no one knew what “myth” was, Shan Hai Jing, as an important literature classics in the pre-Qin Dynasty, its piecemeal and strange mythology may be the most perplexing part to researchers in past dynasties. This is due to the pragmatic scholarly methods of Chinese scholars on traditional academic that they pursued a reasonable life experience and moral value. After Shan Hai Jing was revised and edited by Liu Xin in the Han Dynasty, scholars carried out various interpretations and explanations on them. Accumulating research dialectics over thousands of years, this trend got to its peak in the Qing Dynasty. The author enumerated the characteristics in the works of interpreting the myth of Shan Hai Jing by 20 scholars from the Western Han to Wei Jin North-South Dynasties, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and the Qing Dynasty. Analyzing the relevance between "mythical text" and "interpretation of mythical text", this research explore how the scholars reconstruct the profound meaning of mythological episodes in Shan Hai Jing under the traditional academic view.
In addition to the core of the subject, this thesis also analyze the skills of ancient literati including narrative context, structure reorganization, methodological interpretation. Taking the Qing Dynasty as the boundary line, the full text is divided into two parts: "before the Qing Dynasty" and "the Qing Dynasty". Based on this, the mythological interpretation of scholars and historians, as well as the relevance of contemporary political and economic background, academic thoughts and customs, are discussed separately. The discussions explore the comparison and application on the Mythical Texts Shan Hai Jing in Huai Nan Zi and Lun Heng in the Han Dynasty, the commitment of aesthetic experience and feelings to the Myths of Shan Hai Jing by Wei and Jin scholars, the dialetics on the Myths of Shan Hai Jing under the speculated trend in the Song Dynasty, the pluralistic interpretation of the Myth of Shan Hai Jing from the scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and agitation and fusion of the textual criticism and interpretation in the Qing Dynasty which opened the academic trend of interpreting the myths of Shan Hai Jing. It is precisely that they were constantly engaged in "explaining the classics.", the meaning of the text "Shan Hai Jing" became more diverse and open. Besides, it seems that there are successive inheritance or overthrow on concepts, but with limitations beyond time and space. Through the dialogue between the mythological interpretation and mythical texts, this study shows the bizarre narrative and the documentary of the fabulous work Shan Hai Jing.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106FJU00045001
Date January 2018
CreatorsCHENG, CHIH-YUN, 鄭芷芸
ContributorsJONG, TONG-SHIANN, 鍾宗憲
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format362

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