一、引言公元374年左右,即中国北方正在进行着第一次“五胡乱华”的时代,一支被西方史载称为Hun人的东方民族,渡过伏尔加河和顿河,他们首先征服了的阿兰人(Alans),又在第聂伯河以西地区,降服了日耳曼族的东哥特人(Ostrogoths),接着又不费力地逐走了西哥特人(Visigoths),进而来到西方文明的面前,捶击它的大门。在罗马史家Ammianus的《后期的罗马帝国》(The Later Roman Empire)一书中曾记载〔1〕,Hun人从顿河以东发动进攻,阿兰人坚决的抵抗,然而以战车为主力的阿兰人,敌不 I. INTRODUCTION In about 374 AD, in the north of China, the first “Wuhua Ranhua” period was under way. An Eastern ethnic group, known as the Hun in the history of the West, crossed the Volga River and the Don River and they first The conquered Alans, again in the area west of the Dnieper, surrendered the Germanic Ostrogoths and subsequently, effortlessly, evicted the Visigoths to the Western civilization In front of it, hammering it’s door. In the book The Later Roman Empire by Roman historian Ammianus (1), the Hun attacked from east of the Don and the Alains resolutely resisted, whereas the chariot-dominated Alan People, not enemies