高雄半屏山形成傳說探源

The Study of the Origins of the Legends of Panpingshan’s Formation in Kaohsiung

在高雄市左營區與楠梓區的交界，有一聞名中外的景點「半屏山」。其名「半屏」，意謂不完整，狀似缺半。何以缺半？隨著時間的推移，乃衍生出不同的說法予以解釋，此些說法皆可視為半屏山的形成傳說。二十一世紀初，高雄市政府出版了《高雄市俗語與傳說故事》、《傳說高雄》二部專門記述高雄地區俗語、傳說故事的書籍。根據其中的記述，計有四種傳說用以解釋半屏山何以缺半，筆者分別將之命名為：兩山比高下傳說、美食試人心傳說、仙洞出白米傳說、二仙爭一女傳說。本文的撰寫即意在為此四種半屏山形成傳說一一進行探源的工作。嘗試以當代政府出版著作為出發，藉由清領時期方志文獻、日治階段故事集子，以及戰後民間文學作品等資料的佐助，以期獲得各形成傳說的可能來源。 Panpingshan is a famous sight between the border of Zuoying and Nanzih district in Kaohsiung city. Its name “Panping” means incompleteness, its shape is like a half screen. By the lapse of time, there were different explanations of why Panpingshan lacked its half, and these explanations are regarded as the formation of Panpingshan’s legends. At the beginning of the 21st century, the government of Kaohsiung city published The Proverbs and Legends of Kaohsiung City and Legendary Kaohsiung, which specially recorded proverbs and Legends in Kaohsiung. According to the records, there were four kinds of legends, which explained why Panpingshan lacked its half, so I named “The Legends of Two Mountains’ Competition”, “The Legends of Testing People’s Hearts by Delicacies”, “The Legends of the Magical Cavern Producing Rice” and “The Legends of Two Immortals Competed for a Fairy”. This study traced the origins of these four kinds legends of Panpingshan’s formations. By the contemporary governmental publications, the Ching Dynasty local records, the folktale collection during the Japanese occupied period and the folktales in Taiwan after 1945 to find the origins of the Legends of Formation.