![]() ![]() He tried to chase and catch the Sun, but finally died of thirst when he was approaching success, although he drank all water of the rivers and lakes along the way, , ]. In the Chinese mythology, there was a giant named Kuafu. The second story is about Kuafu chasing the Sun (夸父追日). Therefore, it has become a kind of blessing lantern or the lantern of peace. In the modern time, people are used to write wishes, good fortunes and blessings on it and send it to the gods and goddesses in the sky, so that their wishes can be realized. About 1750 years ago in the ancient China, the sky lantern has been used in the war to show or release the specific signals from the high sky, ,, ]. The first story is about the sky lantern. The five mythological stories in the ancient China to be presented are as follows. The purposes of this paper are to present five mythological stories in the ancient China and three modern creative arts in the sky and space, trying to inspire more creativities through the addition of splendour between the ancient and modern cultures. Therefore, the arts and social sciences have already been highly considered by the IAA and the Acta Astronautica since the very beginning. The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has a Section dedicated the Social Sciences, and its official journal Acta Astronautica publishes papers related to the Space and Society, Culture, and Education. Through the presentations, it is very interesting to see the addition to each other's splendour in the ancient mythologies and the modern space arts.Ĭultures and arts are very important elements of aerospace technology and development. Then, three contemporary arts and designs related to the current space explorations are introduced for comparisons: the Museum of the Moon, the worldwide tour of the Earth model Gaia, and the Chinese Suzhou embroideries of Sun spots and Horsehead nebula. In this paper, five ancient Chinese legends related to the sky and space are described at first: the story of sky lantern (天燈), the story of Kuafu (夸父), the story of Chang E (嫦娥), the story of ancient Chinese astronaut Wan Fu (萬戶), and the story of Nüwa (女媧) who patched up the sky. Therefore, there were many ancient Chinese legends about the sky and space. Traditionally, it is the same globally, the Chinese people respect the Earth, the Moon and the Sun with adorations. In the ancient time, people only knew “sky” instead of “inner space” and “outer space”, and they always dreamed travelling to the celestial object nearest to the Earth, the Moon. It means the region consists of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the Earth. Sky is the area above the Earth in which the clouds, the Moon, the Sun, and the stars can be seen. ![]()
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