德国内布拉星盘与中古时期中国北方民族的昴星团历法

The German Nebra Disc and the Pleiades Calendar Used by Nationalities in North China in Mediaeval Times

德国内布拉星盘的出现是近年来欧洲乃至世界考古界的一件大事,然而目前学术界对其内容、功用和真实性仍然聚讼纷纭。本文通过系统发掘和梳理中国中古时期的北方民族、特别是操突厥语民族的昴星团历法后认为,在没有出现更多资料的情况下,将内布拉星盘所体现出的"昴星团历法"视为来自中古时期的亚洲高地民族似乎更为稳妥,这支持了一些学者认为星盘出自西伯利亚的萨满教僧人之手的观点。内布拉星盘或许曾是某种礼器,从技术角度来看,它更像是一种决定某种重大节日的工具。

The Nebra disc is one of the most sensational European discoveries of the decade.It appears to carry symbols of the sun,moon and stars,wrought in gold on a flat bronze disc just over a foot across.It is not only very strange,but,famously,appears to be winking,initially raising the suspicion that it may be a hoax.Scholars have claimed it firmly for the Bronze Age,and the debate now moves to the matter of its meaning.Here the author offers a subtle relation between it and the Pleiades Calendar used by nationalities in North China in mediaeval times.This relationship maybe show that the Nebra disc is not so old and was the shamanistic device of a nationalitiy in North China in mediaeval times.