《海经》、《荒经》东方奇形怪状之人考辨

A Research on Eastern People Who Have a Grotesque or Fantastic Shape or Appearance in Hai Classic and Huang Classic

《山海经》的《海经》、《荒经》所记载的东方奇形怪状之人可分为四类:一类是身体上部器官发育过度,生有长臂。第二类是身体下部器官存在缺陷,有的胸部洞贯,有的两腿交叉在一起。第三类是皮肤黑色。第四类是巨人和矮人并存。这些奇形怪状的东方之人,承载着先民一系列生命理念,主要包括物莫能两大、天人相感、异类同根三种理念。东方奇形怪状之人的生成,与太阳升起于东方这种自然现象密切相关,是先民类比联想的产物。

Eastern people who have a grotesque or fantastic shape or appearance in Hai Classic and Huang Classic can be divided into four categories： one is over the upper body organ development and have long arms.The second type has defects in the lower body organ,or chest-hole penetration,or cross legs together.The third category has black skin.The fourth category is the coexistence of giant and dwarf.These bizarre people carried a series of concepts of life of ancestors,including the two things can＇t be both huge,telepathy between heaven and man,and different category with the same root.As a product of our ancestors＇ analogy,the generation of those eastern people who have a grotesque or fantastic shape or appearance has close relationship with the sun rises and other natural phenomenon in the east.