"Translation Note of the Sea Error": The Shanghai Water Museum of the Qing Dynasty was found in the Book of Palace Museum

"Translation of Sea Error"

The term "sea error" is published in "Shangshu · Yu Gong": "Jue Gongyan, the sea objects are only wrong." Among them, "wrong" refers to a variety of types and mixed types. "Sea Wrong" means a variety of creatures in the ocean.

"Sea Wrong Map" was written during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 300 years. The book depicts more than 300 kinds of marine life. The marine species involved include the main category of vertebrate and vertebrates, and also records many seaside plants and legendary magical creatures.

The author Nie Jun, the word is Cun, the year of birth and death is unknown. He only knows that he lives in the Qing Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty and is from Qiantang. Affected by the "use of the world" in the late Ming Dynasty, Nie Yan was rigorous and meticulous in the process of creating "Sea Error". The habits of creatures in the sea are all over half of China. After decades of accumulation, Fang creation is completed.

Nie Yan believes: "The birth of the mountains, the sea is often both; and the mountains produced by the sea may not be there." In his pen, the mysterious and wide -looking of the ocean and the Vientiane of Seno, although the marine creatures they depict However, the fun is not recorded by the Shan Hai Jing.

flying fish

In terms of painting skills, as a work with a sense of science, in terms of color, light and darkness, composition, etc., "Sea Error Map", in addition to using the technique of traditional Chinese ink painting strokes, also strives to draw on the realistic art of Western museum paintings. The style shows great differences with other traditional painting works.

It can be said that this ancient marine biometric "Sea Error Map" has both intellectual and artistic dual value, and it can be called classic historical text of Chinese sea error literature and the history of marine biological painting.

This set of "Interpretation of the Sea Error" is the original presence of the Forbidden City Collection "Sea Error Map", which is based on the order of marine life in the original map. On this basis, the translator Liu Bin has verified the various authoritative historical materials and repeatedly scrutinized. The ancient texts in the original book "Sea Error" were annotated and translated, and some rare words were verified or translated to the readers. Easy to read modern vernacular translation. At the same time, in order to restore the original appearance of the book, after half a year of the production team, all the pictures were transformed into high resolution, and the pictures that had faded and blurred in the original book were carefully drawn, trimmed, and colored. The style of museums.

"The Translation of the Sea Error" will lead everyone into this ancient book and travel with the ancients with the ancients.

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