명상에서 상용하는 ‘精, 气, 神’관련 중국어 어휘 小考

Abstract

Meditation helps maintain both physical and mental health because it can heal the mind. Meditation calms down excessive excitation, and the prefrontal cortex is active. This means that you are not stressed while feeling psychologically stable. Long-term meditation can free us from daily stress by activating parasympathetic nerves. In addition, when meditators reach the state of jeongchung(精充), gijang(气壮), and shinmyeong(神明) through abdominal respiration, they can become the owners of their minds or brains through free control of their three-layered brains. In this paper, the origins of ‘精, 气, 神’, which are meditation-related Chinese letters, were analyzed, and at the same time, the meanings of their related vocabulary and the examples of its use in the BCC Corpus were analyzed. In doing so, the overall development from the origins of letters to the meanings and applications of vocabulary was analyzed and its association with meditation was examined. In addition, the collocations(搭配) of ‘精, 气, 神’ were set as 精n, 气n, and 神n and searched in the BCC Corpus. Based on the results, 10 collocations that had the closest co-occurrence relations were selected and analyzed. In addition, the causes of these relations were analyzed based on data on the annual usage of 精n, 气n, and 神n between 1946 and 2015, and the current usage of the letters ‘精, 气, 神’ in China was explored. A full understanding of the origins, meanings and applications of ‘精, 气, 神’ is likely to help identify the principles of meditation and perform meditation. In the future, it is hoped that lexical semantic analysis and collocation analysis will be expanded to Chinese characters in various fields.