剺面习俗的渊源和流传

Origins of Face Cutting Custom and Its Spread

剺面习俗在东汉至隋唐时期流行于以突厥为主体的西域诸民族中,并于唐代前期随着突厥与中原政权的频繁交往和大量降唐的突厥人内迁而被汉族等更多的民族所了解。剺面习俗在匈奴人中并未流行,突厥中的剺面习俗是由迁入西域的民族传入的。春秋战国时期,一些分布在阿尔泰山及附近地区的鹿石面部有斜线纹,它们很可能表示的是剺面的创伤。

The custom of face cutting was popular in various ethnic groups of the Western Regions in the Sui and Tang dynasties. In the early Tang Dynasty, Han people and other ethnic groups in inland China knew it as the Turks' intercourse with the Central Plains became more frequent and lots of Turkic people migrated to the Central Plains. This custom did not prevail in the Huns and was brought to the Turks by the ethnic groups immigrated to the Western Regions.