摘要
战国晚期至西汉前期,中国腹地的多座高等级墓葬中集中出土了一批银质器皿。铭文信息显示,它们中的大部分可能来自同一或有着密切联系的生产或使用中心。而因地理、历史等原因,与欧亚草原有着颇多交往的秦国,在这批银器的生产、使用中扮演了关键角色。广泛使用银质器皿并非古代中国腹地的文化传统,在西亚地区则有着悠久的历史。这种传统很可能经由流动于欧亚大草原的游牧人群传向东方,通过秦国的仿制、使用,进而流向各地。这批器物在材质和工艺上的异域之风,与模仿中国传统青铜器制作工艺、装饰手法、器形等所表现出来的本土之风,体现出中国腹地的人们,将异域方物通过类比本邦物品的方式,转化为财富指征,纳入本地传统的尝试。
Batches of silver vessels dating to the late Warring States through early Western Han have unearthed from a number of high-grade tombs in central China. The inscriptions on these silver vessels show that most of them may come from the same or closely related places where they were produced or used. Due to geographical, historical and other reasons, the Qin State, which was closely related to the Eurasian steppes, played a key role in their production and use. The wide use of silver vessels was not a cultural tradition in central China, but had a long history in West Asia. This tradition was likely to be brought to the east by the nomadic tribes who migrated in the Eurasian steppes, and then to spread to various places through the imitation and use by the Qin. The exotic style of these wares in material and craftsmanship and the local traits expressed by imitating traditional Chinese craftsmanship, decorative methods and vessel forms of bronze ware manufacturing reflect that the people of central China at the time were attempting to incorporate the exotic objects into the local tradition by analogizing them to local products and turning them into representation of wealth.
作者
史明立
SHI Ming-li(Museum of the Nanyue King Mausoleum of Western Han Dynasty,Guangzhou,Guangdong,510040)
出处
《东南文化》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第6期79-89,共11页
Southeast Culture
关键词
战国
汉
银质器皿
秦国
异域
本土化
Warring States period
Han
silver vessels
Qin State
exoticism
localization
