汉唐“风土记”中的西域风土映像——兼论华夷文化观在汉唐时期的转变

Cultural Image of the Western Regions Reflected in the Travel Writings of the Han and Tang Dynasties

汉唐时期,由于中外文化交流的兴盛,涌现出诸如《高僧法显西行记》、《佛国记》、《奉使高丽记》、《大唐西域记》等大量僧俗士人的西域行纪。这些著作的作者,以亲身的见闻和阅历,记载了大量的异域见闻,对于向中原人介绍异域风俗,促进西域文化在中原地区的传播,起了重要的作用。借助这种生动的西域风土映像,中原士人传统的华夷文化观念也发生了微调,变得更为开放,对西域文化也更易于理解、认知和接受。

During the Han-Tang period,as Sino-foreign cultural exchange flourished,a large number of travel writings about the Western Regions by monastic and lay scholars appeared,such as A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms,A Record of the Mission to Gaoli (Korea) and Great Tang Records on the Western Regions,etc..The authors of these writings,with their personal experiences and accounts of what they saw and heard in exotic lands,played an important role in introducing customs of foreign lands to Chinese people and promoting the spread of the Western Regions' culture in China.With these vivid description of the Western Regions' customs,Chinese scholars adjusted their traditional ideas about Chinese and foreign cultures and became more open-minded.It became easier for them to understand,cognize and accept the Western Regions' culture.