"2018 學語集 01 - 05"의 두 판 사이의 차이

2018년 7월 5일 (목) 19:05 판

Original Script

天者蒼蒼在上輕淸而至高日月星辰繫焉

地者在下而博厚山川萬物皆載焉

日者太陽之精朝出于扶桑暮入于若木冬則短夏則長

月者太陰之精遇夜而明望前漸圓望後漸缺

星辰者萬物之精上爲星辰晝隱夜現

Translation

(sample) : Young Kyun Oh

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Sentence 1 : (Write your name)

• Discussion Questions:

Sentence 2 : (Francisca)

That which is called the earth lies below and is broad and thick. Mountains and rivers, and the myriad things are all carried in it.

• Discussion Questions:

+I don't want to render the second half of the sentence into passive form, and wonder if it could be something like "Mountains and rivers, and the myriad things all fill it up." "To fill up" is one of the meanings of 載, but the problem is how to represent the 焉
(YO) How about "ride on it" or "sit on it"?

Sentence 3 : (Kyrie)

That which we call the sun is the essence of the greatest yang. ^[1] In the morning it departs from the fúsāng tree ^[2] and in the evening it enters the ruomu tree. ^[3] If it is winter then it is short, but if it is summer then it is long.

• Discussion Questions:

＋ Should yang be described or is it considered 'common knowledge'?
(YO) I'd say yes.

＋Why is there more descriptive information available about the fúsāng tree than about the ruomu tree?

Sentence 4 : (Okyang Chae-Duporge)

That which is called the moon is the essence of the Supreme Yin, becoming bright when it encounters the night. It gradually becomes round before the fifteenth day of the month, progressively waning after the half of the month.

• Discussion Questions:

+ I would like to put Yin in italic, but I couldn't make it.
(YO) Type two single quotation marks (') before and after it.

Sentence 5 : (Julian Butterfield)

Those which are stars are the essence of the myriad things: ascending, they become stars. The day conceals them, the night reveals them.

• Discussion Questions:

1. In English translation, is it more appropriate to take 星辰者 and 萬物之精 or 萬物之精 and 上爲星辰 as the more closely related pair or clauses? (I.e. do we prefer "Those which are stars are the essences of the myriad things: they ascend to become stars" or "Regarding those which are stars—the essences of the myriad things ascend to become stars"?)
2. Does the essential relationship of the myriad things to the stars here suggest horoscopy, or a belief in astrological determination?^[4]

Notes

1. ↑ As in yin and yang.
2. ↑ [1], The fúsāng tree is a mythical mulberry tree in the east from which the sun was said to rise. Welch, Patricia Bjaaland. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery. New York, NY: Tuttle Publishing, 2008, p.609.
3. ↑ [2], The ruomu tree is a mythical tree in the west where the sun sets. Fritzinger, Jerald. Pre-Columbian Trans-Oceanic Contact. S.l.: LULU COM, 2016, p.86.
4. ↑ For more on horoscopy in (much earlier) premodern East Asia, see Kotyk, Jeffrey. Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic in the Tang Dynasty. Diss. Universiteit Leiden, 2017. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/54858