西域“猧子”与唐代社会生活

"Pug" in the Western Region and Social Life in the Tang Dynasty

西域物种的传入,对唐代的社会生活产生了诸多影响,文章以名为猧子的宠物狗为中心,就这一影响进行以小见大的探讨。作为唐代中西文化交流的使者,猧子在传入中原后给唐人的精神文化和休闲生活带来了新的乐趣。文章以唐代名画中所见的猧子资料为切入点,通过对传世史籍、敦煌文献、出土文物等相关史料的爬梳,力图探究猧子从西域传入中原的路线,还原猧子活跃于唐代贵族仕女和儿童生活中的场景,并对子在文学作品中所表现的主题进行论述。

Species introduced to the Western Regions take great effects upon social life in the Tang Dynasty.The essay focuses on a pug and probes into its effect from micro view to macro one.As a messenger of cultural communication between China and west during the Tang Dynasty,pug adds a new pleasure to both spiritual and leisure life of the people during the Tang Dynasty after being introduced to the Central Plains.The essay starts with pug material seen in the famous paintings during the Tang Dynasty and combs through historical documents,Dunhuang literatures and unearthed cultural relics in an attempt to explore the route of pugs introduced to the Central Plains from the Western Regions,recover the scene of previous pugs popular with royal ladies and children during the Tang Dynasty and expounds the subjects of literary works related to pugs.