《混一疆理历代国都之图》的图本性质和绘制目的

Essence of Honil Kangri Yeokdae Gukdo Jido and Purpose of Its Mapmaking

《混一疆理历代国都之图》制作于1402年,是现存的朝鲜半岛最早的单幅世界地图,也是东亚地区留存下来的年代最早的单幅世界地图,集当时中国、伊斯兰世界和朝鲜半岛的地理知识而成。该图带有读史地图的性质,基本反映中国元代的世界地理知识,部分内容来自朝鲜绘制者的知识谱系,延续元代"混一"的概念,展现明初大一统之景象。明与朝鲜正式建立册封朝贡关系之后,朝鲜特别制作《混一疆理历代国都之图》的目的,是对以明为中心东亚国际秩序的认同以及对朝鲜所据重要地位的强调。而西方大航海前后,日本对《混一疆理历代国都之图》的多次摹绘,则在一定程度上反映出日本当时面对与明朝、朝鲜不断紧张的外交关系和日趋衰落的贸易活动,意欲广泛了解世界的努力。

Honil Kangri Yeokdae Gukdo Jido,the earliest existing Korean single world map was made in 1402.As the earliest single world map existed in East Asia,it synthesized geographical knowledge of China,Islamic world and Korea.Being characteristics of reading history map,Honil Kangri Yeokdae Gukdo Jido presented the world geographical knowledge in Yuan Dynasty of China,while some of the content came from Korean knowledge.It inherited the concept of Hunyi(unification)of Yuan,showed the great unification scene in early Ming Dynasty.After the establishment of formal tributary relations between Ming and Korea,Korea specially drew Honil Kangri Yeokdae Gukdo Jido so as to express its identification to East Asian international order centered on Ming as well as to emphasize its important status.