古代中日文化交流中的动物要素

Animal Factors in Ancient Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchanges

动物是人类生产生活中必不可少的工具和伴侣,也是人类文化的重要载体。在古代中日文化交流中,动物扮演了重要的角色:牛、马、鸡、蚕等家养动物从中国或经中国传播至日本后,丰富了日本列岛的物种,改善了列岛居民的生产生活方式;狮子、虎、豹等野生动物和中国人想象中的四神、祥瑞动物等所承载的科技、文化内涵深入列岛居民的心灵,极大地丰富了日本人的思想力和想象力,为日本文化的形成和发展提供了重要素材。

Animals are not only indispensable tools and companions in human life and production,but also important carriers of human culture.They have played a vital role in cultural exchanges between ancient China and ancient Japan.Domestic animals like cattle,horses,chickens and silkworms,after being spread from(or through)China to Japan,have enriched species in Japan and improved the mode of production and life of Japanese people.On the other side,culture,science and technology carried by wild animals like lions,tigers,and leopards as well as The Four Gods(Qinglong,Baihu,Zhuque and Xuanwu)and other auspicious animals imagined by Chinese people,have penetrated deeply into Japanese people’heart,greatly enriched ideology and imagination of Japanese people and provided important materials for the formation and development of Japanese culture.