著者

西林 眞紀子

出版者

大東文化大学

雑誌

大東アジア学論集 (ISSN:21859760)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.73-85, 2005-03-31

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The analysis concerns the reading of dreams in ancient China. Ancient China had the reading of dreams as a part government. The way of reading of dreams was by astronomical observation, and the principles of Yin and Yang, the sun and the moon principles in an extremely complex formula. In B.C.509 there was an eclipse of the sun and that night a man had an ominous dream. A fortune-teller attached greater importance to an eclipse of the sun than to the ominous dream. But it did not mean that the dream wasn't of importance as the investigation of the state of the sun and the moon principles was very important for the reading of dreams. This event merely emphasized the understanding of the important relationship between the eclipse of the sun and the ominous dream.