宋代米芾族源及其信仰

On the Genealogy and Belief of Mi Fu in the Song Period

本文根据出土墓志和文献记载，结合琐罗亚斯德教礼俗及中古祆教史，对宋四家之一米芾的宗教信仰进行考察。认为其来源於中亚米国，从粟特後裔身份，“火正後人”及“好洁之癖”等方面来看，其保留了祆教某些礼俗的痕迹。当然，随着米氏在华世代久居，其华化色彩更深，像许多儒士那样，以佛教为精神寄托。

This article studies the documentary records concerning Mi Fu who was one of the most famous painters and calligraphers in the Song Period.It believes that the ancestors of Mi Fu came from Mymurgh of ancient central Asia,namely the ancient Sogdiana. From the point of view of the Sogdian genealogy,'descendant of the fire priest'and'cleanliness,'he preserved some traces of Zoroastrian rituals and practices.However,his ancestors had lived in ancient China so many generations that Mi Fu accepted Buddhism as his spiritual sustenance,like many Confucian scholars in the same period,which perhaps showed a kind of Sinolized form of Zoroastrianism.