南北朝妙简外交使者简析

An Analysis of the Selection of Diplomatic Envoys in the Southern and Northern Dynasties

南北朝时期,政权林立,各政权为自身发展的需要都积极从事外交活动,于是对使者的选择非常重视,不仅要求其博学、机辩,还要容止可观,并能坚持使者气节,使之作为本国政治、文化、学术和礼仪的形象代表来进行政治、文化等各方面的信息交流,达到完善本国政权建设的目的。

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties time, many countries appeared, and each country had to positively be engaged in the diplomatic activity in order to develop themselves. Thereupon, the problem of how to select the envoys was given importance to, and the envoys were not only required of to be learned, silver-tongued, bearing-elegant, but also to maintain their moral integrity so as to act for their states as the image representatives for political, cultural, academic and the etiquette exchanges to perfect the construction of their regimes.