关于“原匈奴”概念的提出与界定

The Proposition and Definition of "the Original Hun"

在匈奴起源问题的研究中,过去的学者们惯用“早期匈奴文化”或“前匈奴文化”等概念,用以表示匈奴文化的前身。不加区别地把匈奴本体和别部、真正的原始的匈奴和后加入匈奴联盟的成员混为一谈,因而把许多非匈奴文化的外来因素也都包含在内,导致了在匈奴起源问题上的诸多分歧和混乱。“原匈奴”概念的提出旨在把匈奴本体的族源问题从整个汉代匈奴的族源问题中区分出来,把匈奴核心民族从匈奴联盟建立和扩张过程中加入和被征服的众多从属的别部中区分开来。“原匈奴”专指真正的匈奴主体民族的前身,“原匈奴文化”指匈奴主体民族创造和使用的核心文化。

In the research of the origination of Hun, some scholars often used the term “early culture of Hun” or “pre-Hun culture” in the past to express the culture before the period of Hun. When they talked about the Hun, they tended to take the authentic Hun, the branches of Hun as well as those joined the Hun and became Hun as one thing. Therefore there is a big divarication and chaos about the origination of Hun. The term “the Original Hun” is to take the authentic Hun out from the whole Hun in Han dynasty and the core of Hun from those hypotaxis that were conquered when the Hun was expanded. “The original Hun was used specially to denote the pre-existence of the authentic Hun hence the ”culture of the original Hun“ denotes the core of the culture created and used by the Mainstream Hun nationality.