摘要
由於近年來的考古新發現——粟特文古信札、敦煌吐魯番漢文和粟特文文書、中原多地出土的漢文和粟特文墓志、各地發現的石棺葬具等材料,粟特研究赓受學界關注,成爲國際顯學,成果引人注目。本文關注的則是北齊時期粟特商胡在中古地圖東端青州地區的活動。前輩學者早已關注到該地區的一批墓志、藝術品等新材料。
Focusing on the well-known five 'Huren'(foreigners) painted on the kasāya of a stone Buddhist statue excavated from the Longxing Monastery site in Qingzhou(in Shandong Province), the author, for the first time,recognizes a key visual detail: two 'Huren' are holding a lotus in hand respectively on either side, which has been a motif in the context of Buddhist art in Medieval China—an image of donors. Together with such other visual and textual sources as Buddhist arts, reliefs carved on the sarcophagi or coffins, murals from the tombs, epitaphs and historical documents related to the Sogdians in or near the Northern Qi capital Yecheng(in today’s Linzhang,Hebei Province) and another important prefecture Bingzhou(in and near Taiyuan, Shanxi Province), this paper suggests these Huren as donors of the statue, and representatives of an international Sogdian trade caravan residing in Qingzhou. The author argues that the Silk Route represented by Sogdian caravanscan be extended to the Shandong Peninsula. Rather than the organizations of lay donors of Han ethnicity led by the local aristocratic literati families, this commission was conducted by a migrant Sogdian trade troupe.Unlike most of the Sogdians, members of this group were Buddhists, not Zoroastrians.
出处
《中古中国研究》
2017年第1期211-232,405,共23页
Medieval China
基金
教育部哲學社會科學研究重大課题攻關項目“中國歷代繪畫大系編纂與研究”(項目批准號:14JZD039
項目合同號:14JZDH039)的成果之一
