一、引言:一个蒙古族雕塑家对《中国雕塑史》的看法前几年遇到一个蒙古族雕塑家,他说他在写草原民族雕塑史。我问,为什么要做这个课题呢?他说:“你们写的中国雕塑史与我们草原民族没有关系,不重视我们草原民族的雕塑传统,我们只有自己来写草原民族雕塑发展的历史。”对这个问题我和他讨论了很长时间,关于草原民族的界定,草原民族的空间边界,草原民族的历史时代如何划分等等。这件事引发的思考是,中国的草原游牧民族,理应是中华 I. Introduction: A Mongolian sculptor’s view on the history of Chinese sculpture A Mongolian sculptor met a few years ago and said he was writing a history of national sculpture in the Prairie. I asked why we should do this subject. He said: “The history of Chinese sculpture you wrote has nothing to do with our grassland nation. We do not attach importance to the sculpture tradition of our grassland people. We only have to write the history of the development of the prairie ethnic sculpture.” "I discussed with him a very long time on this issue, about the definition of the grassland nationalities, the spatial boundary of the grassland peoples, and the division of the historical times of the grassland peoples. The thinking triggered by this incident is that the steppe nomads in China should be China