利玛窦:用“科学”进行中西方跨文化沟通

Matteo Ricci:Cross-cultural Communication Between China and the West with Science

利玛窦1583年至1601年间,在肇庆、韶关、南昌和南京等四地生活;1601年到达北京,并在北京定居直至1610年去世。利玛窦在理解中国文化方面做出了真诚的和富有成效的工作,他架设了不同传统、处事风格、语言障碍的国度之间的桥梁,用“科学”进行着跨越中西方的文化沟通;不仅将西方科学、西方文化介绍给了中国人,而且还将中华文明、儒家学说传播到了欧洲,堪称中西文化交流的先驱。

Matteo Ricci lived in four cities from 1583 to 1601,Zhaoqing,Shaoguan,Nanchang and Nanjing;in 1601,he arrived in the capital city of China,Beijing,and settled there until his death in 1610.Matteo Ricci made sincere and fruitful work in understanding Chinese culture.He built a bridge between countries with different traditions,styles and language barriers,and used“science”to communicate across Chinese and Western cultures.He not only introduced western science and western culture to the Chinese,but also spread Chinese civilization and Confucianism to Europe,who was called the pioneer of cultural exchanges between China and the West.