试论麒麟文化源于山东巨野

On the Kylin Cluture Originating in Jvye, Shandong Procince

巨野是"西狩获麟"之地,史书记载颇为周祥;自夏商至先秦,巨野所处的地理和人文环境为麒麟文化的诞生提供了肥沃土壤;巨野有以麒麟冢为主的种种文化遗存,大量的麒麟传说在这里兴起、演化,并流传后世。简言之,麒麟文化发端于春秋时期的巨野。

Jvye is the very place of catching the kylin. The story is accounted in detail in shishu. The woods keepers hunted a kylin in Jvye once called Daye, west of the capital of Lu, Qufu. From Xia and Shang dynasties to the pre-Qin period, the geographical and cultural environments of Jvye provided good conditions for the birth of kylin culture. There are cultural relics with the typical representative of Kylin Tumulus and kylin legends rising, developing and spreading in Jvye. So in brief, the kylin culture originated in Jvye in Chunqiu Period.