柔然官制续考

A Sequent Investigation on the Official Titles of Rouran

通过对柔然官制中俟利发、吐豆发和俟斤三种职官的语源、用例和名号属性的研究，揭示它们与突厥汗国职官体系中同名或相近职官之间的关系。突厥政治制度继承自柔然汗国，而柔然汗国的政治制度渊源於东胡的古老传统，因此对突厥政治名号的探究，不应当停留在突厥语的范围之内，也不能仅仅在伊朗文化范围内寻求解答。当然，突厥对柔然政治文化及制度的继承，也不是照单全收，而是有所扬弃，有所改造。

The investigation of the etymology and the nature of three of Rouran's official titles,elt(?)b(?)r(ilig-b(?)g),tutuq b(?)g and irkin, reveals that some certain relations did exist between the political institutes of Rouran and Turkic Khanates,and the latter inherited some official titles from the former,which have been for a long time misidentified as something rising from Turk's own tradition.From this point we may step forward to the conclusion that after Xiongnu Empire collapsed,the prevalent political culture across the Mongolian steppe had been rooted profoundly from that of Donghu(East Hu),of which the great component groups were Wuhuan,Xianbei and Rouran. Because of this,any attempt of solving the problems of political culture of Turkic Khanate should not be merely focused on Turkic languages and Iranian traditions.