民族交融的五代辽金元时期历史编纂的文化取向

Cultural Orientation in History Writing in the National-amalgamation Periods of the Five Dynasties and the Liao,the Jin and the Yuan Dynasty

历史发展生生不息,历史长河前后相续。如何看待历史传承,它不仅涉及到各封建王朝对正统地位的诉求问题,还关乎到文化取向上的抉择判断。可以说有目的地撰写国史和前朝史的意识表明10—13世纪,沙陀、契丹、女真、蒙古等各少数民族建立的政权将自己与以往汉族政权的历史自觉地连在一起,也就是用一种自觉意识将各民族贯穿在一个相互联系的纽带上加以反映,因而超出了纯粹政治上的策略考量,而上升到一种文化的选择,这正是中国历史由分裂最终走向统一,由各民族相互纷争最终走向民族融合的最重要因素之一。

Historical inheritance involves not only the demand of feudal dynasties for their orthodox places but also choice and judgment of cultural orientation.In this consideration,the sense of writing the national history and former dynasties reveals that the minority regimes founded by Shatuo,Jurchen,Mongolia and the like self-consciously connected their histories with the former Dynasties of the Han people.In other words,an interrelated bond was introduced to self-consciously link all ethnics together,which oversteps a purely political strategic consideration and ascends to a cultural choice.This is just an important element for China＇s historical transition from separation to unification and Chinese ethnics＇ experience from mutual struggle to national integrity.