《况义》的翻译与中西寓言的早期接触

The Translation of Kuangyi and the Early Encounter between Western and Chinese Fables

1625年,法国耶稣会士金尼阁和中国天主教徒张赓翻译了《伊索寓言》的第一个中文选译本——《况义》。《况义》的翻译受到正处于创作高峰期的中国寓言的影响,同时,它所传入的西方寓言又为中国文人关注,促生了第一批西方风格的中国寓言作品。

In 1625, French Jesuit missionary Nicholas Trigault and Chinese Catholic Zhang Geng translated Kuangyi, the first selected Chinese version of Aesop＇s Fables. The translation of Kuangyi was influenced by Chinese fables, which were then in a period of full boom. Meanwhile, Western fables spread by Kuangyi aroused concern from Chinese literati, resulting in the emergence of the first group of Westernized Chinese fables.