中国人的航道:论南海“Pracel牛角”的性质——以16世纪西文古地图为中心  

Navigable Waterways Used by the Chinese:Essential Implications of the Pracel Ox-horn-like Sea Area in Some 16th-century Maps of the West

作　　者：许盘清[1] 顾跃挺 曹树基 XU Panqing;GU Yueting;CAO Shuji(Research Institute of Historical and Cultural Maps,Sanjiang University,Nanjing 210012,China)

机构地区：[1]三江学院历史与文化地图研究院,江苏南京210012

出　　处：《云南师范大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》2022年第6期1-15,共15页Journal of Yunnan Normal University：Humanities and Social Sciences Edition

基　　金：国家社会科学基金资助项目“越南与中国南海地名考证及历史地理信息平台建设研究”(18BTQ048)。

摘　　要：在16~19世纪初的西文古地图中,越南近岸一直存在一个长达数百公里或千余公里的“牛角”状海域,被认为是暗礁地带。文章主要采用要素分析与模型分析相结合的方法,将1529~1600年之间123幅西文古地图中的“Pracel牛角”分解为岛屿符号、牛角图案、对牛角的命名、对牛角功能的说明等四项,建立起“Pracel牛角”不同要素表达的不同模型,证明“Pracel牛角”的头部是岛礁;“牛角”主体是对航线危险性的提示;航线本身则是中国人前往西南洋的航道。In the old maps published between the 16century and the 19century in the West, there is an ox-horn-like sea area of several kilometers or even over one thousand kilometers in length close to the Vietnamese coast, which is often regarded as a reef area.Using the methods of both element analysis and module analysis, this paper gives an incisive analysis of 123 maps published between 1529 and 1600 in the West by focusing on the classification of the figures of the Pracel ox-horn into four categories, i.e.symbols representing islands, figures of the ox horn, names of the ox horn, and descriptions of the functions of the ox horn.Based upon different modules for each of the above category of elements, the paper concludes that the front part of the Pracel ox-horn refers to island reefs, the main part of the Pracel ox-horn refers to the danger of the sea routes while the marked sea routes refer to the navigable waterways used by the Chinese towards the western region of Southeast Asia.

关 键 词：南海 Pracel牛角 西南洋航线 

分 类 号：K901[历史地理—人文地理学] D823[政治法律—政治学]