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自西汉(公元前206—公元23年)以降,或从更早的时候起,直到明朝(1368—1644年)早期,中国史籍中不乏对于罗马—拜占庭世界的记载。学者们认为,自唐代以来,中国人都以“拂菻”一词称呼拜占庭。但是,除了那些往来于“西域”和中华帝国腹地的商人们,古代中国人对于罗马和拜占庭帝国的疆域范围却并没有十分清楚的概念,甚至对拂菻一词所指的地域范围、或者其具体所指代的文明范畴有所误解。于是,对“拂菻”一词的理解,或者对于中国史籍中各个时期之“拂菻传”所指代的范围,就不能笼统理解为对拜占庭的描述,本文试图就宋史《拂菻传》中的一段记载说明这一问题,就教于学界同仁们。
From the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-23 AD), or earlier, until the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) there was no shortage of records of the Roman-Byzantine world in Chinese historical records. Scholars believe that since the Tang Dynasty, Chinese people have called Byzantium on the phrase “whisk”. However, except for the merchants who came in and out of the “Western Regions” and the hinterland of the Chinese imperialists, the ancient Chinese did not have a very clear idea of the scope of the Roman and Byzantine empires. Even the geographical scope of the word “ Or the specific categories of civilization it refers to have been misunderstood. Thus, the understanding of the word ”whisk“ or the scope of ”whisk" in each period of Chinese history can not be generalized as a description of Byzantine. A passage in The Whisperer explains this question and teaches them to the academic colleagues.