國立故宮博物院 National Palace Museum 新增了 1 張相片。2020年4月1日上午10:00 · 坤輿全圖動物大觀園—犀牛篇
我們繼續來看皇帝的世界地圖 #坤輿全圖
和上一篇的獅子(在犀牛左邊)不太一樣,圖中所繪的犀牛非常接近現實中的犀牛喔!
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坤輿全圖裡對 #犀牛 的描述:
原文:「印度國剛霸亞地産獸,名鼻角,身長如象,足稍短,遍體皆紅黄斑㸃,有鱗介,矢不能透,鼻上一角,堅如鋼鐵,將與象鬬時,則於山石磨其角觸象腹而斃之。。」
The Great… 更多 Universal Map (Kunyu Quantu) which Father Ferdinand Verbiest drew for the Kangxi Emperor.
What dose the Rhinoceros look like in this map?
"This animal is found in India. Its body is large like an elephant’s, but with shorter legs. It is covered in red and yellow spots, and scales which cannot be pierced by arrows. The horn on its nose is as hard as steel, which can be sharpened against a stone before a fight against an elephant. Because the rhino horn was used as medicine by the Chinese, it suffered brutally from hunting, and is now on the brink of extinction."
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白話版:
這種動物產於印度。身形有大象那麼大,但腳比大象來的短。(又有翻譯是:體型像腿比較短的大象)
身體滿佈紅色和黃色的斑點,還有連箭都穿不透的鱗片。
牠鼻上長角像鋼一樣硬,在與大象搏鬥前,會用山壁岩石將角磨利,然後用角刺殺大象的肚子。
(看來古人對犀牛的認知是一種可以跟大象決鬥的動物,如果有朋友對犀牛比較了解,歡迎留言告訴大家!)