《皇清职贡图》的“大一统”与“中外一家”思想

The thoughts of “great unification” and “the world is one family” revealed in Picture Album of Subordinate Peoples of the Qing Dynasty

《皇清职贡图》是中国古代绘录边疆少数民族数量最多,最全面的一部彩色图册,该图册以图文并茂的形式展现了清乾隆时期中国统一多民族国家的盛况。《皇清职贡图》中统治者题写的诗文,表达了清王朝"大一统"的政治理念,图中民族的族称以及图像绘制的特点,体现了清朝"中外一家"的"民族共同体"思想。

Picture Album of Subordinate Peoples of the Qing Dynastyis a picture album which records the most numerous ethnic minority groups in the frontier regions of ancient China and reveals the prosperity of China as a multi-ethnic and unified country in the Qianlong Period of the Qing dynasty with excellent pictures and truthful description.The poems in the album written by the rulers express the political thought of"great unification"of the Qing Imperial Court while the names of ethnic groups as well as their characteristics reveal the thought of a grand community with a shared future for mankind,that is,"the world is one family".