汉代燕然山的位置

The Study of Mountain Yanran’s Location

燕然山是蒙古国一座山名的古称,是窦宪北征匈奴时登临、刻石之处。由于史籍对燕然山记载不详,后世注疏学者竟无从探究其位置。自《嘉庆重修一统志》始、经丁谦阐发,学界普遍认为杭爱山就是燕然山。其实该说仅为推测,并无文献佐证。中蒙联合调查发现的汉文摩崖,证实燕然山即今德勒格尔杭爱山南麓摩崖所在山地。这一位置紧邻戈壁地区,与窦宪"出塞三千余里"的行军路线可以对应。

The Mountain named Yanran in ancient times was the place where Dou Xian climbed up to and engraved after his conquering of Huns.Given the scarce record in historical materials,researchers of later period couldn’t make a thorough inquiry about Mount Yanran’s exact location.Starting from Chorography in Qing Dynasty of Jiaqing,with Ding Qian’s elucidating,the popular belief is that Khangai Mountain was Mount Yanran.Actually,this is just a speculation without evidence in any literature if more consideration is given.The rock inscription in Chinese,discovered by the China-Monglian joint investigation,proved the location of Mount Yanran was just in the southern foothill of the Delegelhang Mountains,where the rock inscription located.The site was close to Gobi region,although inconsistent with the epigraph which recordedthree thousand miles far away from the Han frontier fortress,but is the result of lacking inspection of Dou Xian’s army marching route.