司马迁的民族史研究及其对中国统一多民族国家发展的贡献

Sima Qian's Study of Ethnic History and His Contribution to the Development of China as a Unified Multi-Ethnic Nation

中国是一个统一的多民族国家,对多民族的系统研究始于司马迁,他开创了"四裔传"的先河,使中国民族史研究有了明确的时空概念、明确的对象和丰富的内容,奠定了中国民族史学发展的基础。司马迁还从统一多民族国家形成与发展的角度,在民族研究中建立了中国民族史研究的整体观,说明了民族发展与国家发展具有互动性,提出了黄帝是"华夷"的共祖等思想。这些思想对统一多民族国家的形成与发展影响是深远的,贡献是巨大的。

China is a unified multi - ethnic nation. The initial systematic study of China as a unified multi - ethnic nation owed to Sima Qian who started the biography of the frontier ethnic peoples, shedding light on the specific time, location, subject and content in the study of the Chinese ethnic and national history and paving the way for the subsequent development of the Chinese ethnic and national history as a discipline. Sima Qian established a ho- listic view for the study of ethnic peoples from the perspective of the formation of a unified multi - ethnic nation, accounting for the interaetivities between ethnic development and national development and proposing the idea of the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor of all Chinese people. Sima Qian＇ s endeavors were of great significance to the for- mation and development of China as a unified multi - ethnic nation.