郁永河

郁永河（1645年—？），又记作郁永和，字沧浪，浙江仁和县（今杭州城区北部）诸生（附学生员）。

简历

郁永河非常喜好游历。1691年开始，任于闽知府王仲千同知幕宾。期间游遍福建各地。康熙三十五年（1696年）冬，福州“榕城”火药库失火，五十余万斤硫磺、硝石全遭焚毁，“无纤介遗”。郁永河自动请命前往台湾北投采硫，隔年（1697年）春天由福建出发，经金门坐船前往台湾，二月（1697年2月）海行到达台南安平，近岸水浅，小船无法前进，遂下船改乘牛车，靠人牵引，方能上岸。二月二十五日，至府城，购齐采硫工具，总计花费九百八十金，再乘牛车由陆路抵达淡水，途中“自竹堑迄南崁八九十里，不见一人一屋”，经由通事张大帮忙，郁永河等人在硫磺产地附近驻扎，聘用原住民帮忙采硫。康熙36年(1697年)完成炼硫工作，于同年11月离台。中途遇台风，先以“划水仙”方式安然抵澎湖，托言幸赖水仙尊王保佑，谒拜澎湖水仙宫。并将其九个月在台纪事于1698年写成《裨海纪游》。该书为首部详细记载台湾北部人文地理的专书。有《台湾竹枝词》12首、《土番竹枝词》24首描写台湾风土。

著作

《裨海纪游》（或作《采硫日记》），方豪，台北成文出版社合校本最为完整。

《伪郑逸事》

《番境补遗》(番境补逸)

《海上纪略》(海上事略)

《宇内形势》

相关作品

中文小说

《康熙台北湖》，徐毅振著，台湾，白象出版，2019。

Yu Yonghe (Chinese: 郁永河; pinyin: Yù Yǒnghé; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iok Éng-hô) was a traveler from China whose adventures are recorded in Small Sea Travel Diaries (裨海紀遊). The book contributes significantly to the research on the historical development of Taiwan (Formosa) in the seventeenth century.

Biography

Yu Yonghe was born before 1650 in the city of Renhe, Zhejiang province. Modern scholars regard Yu as a unique figure of his time because of several factors. For instance, although traveling was not uncommon at his time, Yu was known to have travelled to every corner of Fujian and to Taiwan. Furthermore, in his accounts of the Taiwanese aborigines and Zheng family (entitled 番境補遺, 偽鄭逸事, respectively), he shows his knowledge of those people and lands were extraordinary for his era.

Under the consent of the Fujian officials, Yu travelled to Taiwan following the explosion of the Fuzhou gunpowder stores in 1696 to mine sulfur. Yu's voyage began at the coast to Xiamen, crossing the Taiwan Strait and coming to a halt in Penghu before arriving in Tainan. Yu then journeyed northward to Tamsui and Beitou where he bought amorphous sulfur from local Aborigines for the making of pure sulfur. The expedition lasted ten months.

Eventually Yu returned to Fuzhou with a memoir of his ten month journey. The memoir chronicles Yu's life in Taiwan under Qing rule where he was introduced to the unique culture of the island. It subsequently became Small Sea Travel Diaries (sometimes translated The Small Sea Travel Records or Small Sea Travelogue). As Yu was on a mission collecting sulfur, his book is also referred to as the Sulfur Extraction Diaries (採硫日記).

When Yu arrived in Taiwan, the island had been under the administration of the Qing dynasty for 13 years. Yu not only recorded the developments of the era, he also took into account the administrative structures passed down by the Dutch and Zheng dynasty.