明清时期苏禄国朝贡史话

Sulu Contribution during Ming and Qing Dynasty

明清帝国作为一个区域性大国,与其周边国家共同形成了一个以中国中原王朝为中心的东亚国际交往秩序,确定和维系以中华为中心的朝贡体系,并对朝贡国家采取了"厚往薄来"、"无关税"、"怀柔怀远"以及优抚朝贡使节、抚慰东王后人的政策。苏禄国对明清两朝的朝贡活动持续了三百五十多年,接受中国对苏禄国王的承认和册封,在朝贡体系下前去中国朝见,以举行臣服于明清中原中央政府的各种活动,并以此作为维系苏禄国与中原明清王朝臣服关系的基本方式。

As regional superpower,the central government of China during Ming and Qing Dynasty received tribute from Sulu for 350 years with a constant China-oriented and profit offering policy and friendly and considerate measures in dealing with this contribution and other diplomatic and civil affairs.The Sulu missions got warm friendly greeting,more profitable reward and recognition of their authority and sovereignty from the Chinese government in return,thus Sulu tribute paying,one unique form of international trade in additional to civil trade,is the basic approach to maintain the close diplomatic relationship with the Chinese central government during Ming and Qing Dynasty.