从隋代李静训墓出土项链看中西文化交流

On Cultural Exchange between China and the West from Necklaces Unearthed from Li Jingxun’s Tomb of Sui-dynasty

现收藏于中国国家博物馆的李静训墓出土项链以它的"洋面孔"为世人所瞩目,乍一看它的品貌似乎与中原文化有格格不入之惑。文章在关注欧亚大陆首饰文化交流的基础上,对处于历史交汇点上的隋帝国和拜占庭帝国之间的文化基因进行抽丝剥茧,透过小小的珠宝,看出西方珠宝文明在工艺技法和首饰形态上的东向输出,而具有异域血统的隋朝在面临这一输入时也表现得大度从容,毫无扭捏之态。可见即使在远古交通不便、中西文化难以达到顺畅沟通的条件下,促使文化极性极高的彼此表达出极强的接触欲望的背后也有一种神秘的驱动力,珠宝便是这一点的最忠实反映。

Unearthed from the tomb of Li Jingxun, the necklace has drew worldwide attention with its "foreign face", now at the National Museum of China, as it seems against the grain of Chinese culture at first glance. This article examines the cultural genes of the Sui dynasty and the Byzantine Empire at the intersection of history from the perspective of exchange of jewelry culture in Eurasia. The small piece of jewelry reveals how the Western jewelry culture traveled eastwards in terms of craftsmanship and form, and how the Sui Dynasty, which featured a foreign ancestry, embraced it with openness and tolerance. It can be noted that even at a time of great inaccessibility that hindered the exchange between Chinese and Western cultures, there was a mysterious drive behind the strong urge for communication of the two cultures which are with extremely high culture-polar, as evidenced by jewelry.