从出土汉至唐文物看欧亚文化交流遗痕

Tracing Euro-Asia Cultural Exchanges from The Unearthed Objects of The Han through Tang Dynasties

一个世纪以来,中国境内出土的中古时期外来文物不断涌现,为我们研究中外文化交流与传播提供了新材料与新视角,也揭示了中国古代文明与世界文明沟通的历史轨迹。令人瞩目的是,从希腊罗马的双翼羽人、人头马身到丰收女神;从少年枝形烛台到大量的东罗马金币;从三燕鸭嘴玻璃蔷薇水瓶到希腊的酒器"来通";从景教十字架到希腊英雄牵神兽护卫皇后线刻画,这些自希腊、罗马到拜占庭时代的西方文物,不仅填补了中古时代欧洲与中国文化互动的空白,也弥补了中西交流历史文献的不足,并且,对拓展和深化世界文明的研究有着积极的推动作用。

The increasing number of mediaeval foreign objects unearthed within Chinese territory in the past century provides Chinese scholars with new materials to study Sino-foreign cultural exchanges and diffusion from a different perspective, to trace the history of ancient civilization communication between China and the outside world. The coverage of the foreign objects —— from the Greco-Romanfeathered man with wings to the man-head-and-horse-body figure and Demeter, from the branchshaped candle over the head of a teenager to a great amount of the East Roman gold coins, from the duck-mouth glass bottle with roses and three swallows to the Greek ‘Rhyton’, from the Nestorian Cross to Greek line-carved picture showing the hero drawing deity animal to protect Queen, fills in a gap which has hitherto existed in Sino- Euro cultural exchanges during the medieval ages and makes up for the lack of the archives recording Sino-western communication, which greatly promote the study of the world civilization.