汉水流域文化与牛郎织女星神

The Relation between Culture of the Han River and“the Altair and Vega Gods”

牛郎、织女星座属于二十八宿星系,而我们目前已知二十八宿星图最先产生在汉水流域。战国秦汉至隋唐时期的天文学著作,对牛郎、织女、天河的记载也与汉水流域相联系。1975年冬在湖北省云梦县睡虎地秦墓出土了大批秦简,其中《日书》部分有两条与牵牛织女相关的材料,证明牵牛织女故事应该是较早流传于楚地汉水流域的民间传说。牛郎、织女与河汉是牛女神话传说故事的三大文化元素,其中天河、天汉完全来源于汉水的水文化意象,同时也为文人"诗化"牛女故事提供了水天一色的想象空间,使牛女传说增添了烟波浩渺的汉水文化印记。

The Altair and Vega Gods belong to the Chinese traditional twenty-eight constellations, originating from Han River Basin as far as we know. Literatures, during Warring States and Han periods to Sui and Tang dynasties, also reflect the connections between the Han River Basin and the Altair, Vega and the galaxy. RI SHU, among a wide variety of Qin bamboo slips, which were unearthed in Shuihu- di, Yunmeng, Hubei Province in the winter of 1975, has two records related to Altair and Vega. It suggests that the stories of Altair and Vega are folklores spread early in Chu and Han River Basin. Altair, Vega and the galaxy are three main cultural elements of these folk- lores. The galaxy, namely the Milky Way, derives its cultural imagery from the Han River. The throe cultural elements broaden the imag- ination space for the literary men to poeticize the stories of Altair and Vega from a level of combining human beings and nature and the throe elements characterize the stories as mysterious Han River Cultural signs.