阿六敦(汉译名斛律金),是生活在公元5世纪下半叶的敕勒(维吾尔)人,维吾尔族第一个诗歌翻译家。由他翻译并即兴演唱的《敕勒歌》,上千年以来代代相传,脍炙人口,已成为千古名歌。《敕勒歌》不但对于研究我国古代北方游牧民族的民歌、民间文学具有重要价值,而且对于研究文学翻译史、少数民族与汉民族的文化交流史,都具有重要意义。 Ah Liu Dun (Chinese translation of Hsu Lok Kim), is living in the second half of the 5th century AD Lele (Uyghur) people, the first Uyghur poetry translator. By his translation and impromptu concert “Gele song”, handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, win universal praise, has become a famous song of all ages. It is of great significance not only for studying folk songs and folk literature of ancient nomadic peoples in northern China but also for studying the history of literary translation and the cultural exchange between ethnic minorities and the Han nationality.