The Changes Of Kilin Culture And The Development Of The Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchanges

Kilin Culture is a kind of Chinese traditional culture which originated from China.It also is the crystallization that the development of the Sino-Foreign cultural exchanges.During the development of Kilin Culture,it was influenced by foreign culture.On the other hand,Kilin Culture promoted the friendly visit between China and foreign countries when it extensively spread to oversea,so far as to make some deeply effact on the politics,the ecomomics and the culture in some countries.Kilin Culture is an importand problem for study to the history of Sino-Foreign relations.The thesis is divided into four chapters according to the leads that the changes of Kilin Culture and the developments of Sino-Foreign cultural exchanges:Throught ananlyzing the relationship between Chinese Kilin myth and Indian Moon tales,Chapter one probe into the origin of Kilin Culture.Furthermore,it analyzes the relationship between the initial prosperity of Kilin Cultuer and the teansmission of European and Asian culture ,in accordance with archaeological discoverries in nation,legacy of history and historical documents.Chapter tow sums up the condiction about that non-Han nationalities absorbed Kilin Culture and the culture influenced the naxtional culture from the Three Kingdoms Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties.This chapter also summarizes the new culture elements that were brought into Kilin 's article image by the influx of overseas animals and the Sino-Foreign cultural exchanges' invigoration.Chapter three analyzes the reasons and the expressions of those changes after Kinlin Culture turned into a kind of folk culture,and the changes of the Kilin's article image fromthe Tang to the Yuan Dynasties.Furthermore,linking to the circomstances of Sino-Foreign trade and Sino-Foreign communication,this chapter discusses the great advances in culture's propatation when Kinlin Culture turned into a kind of folk culture.Chapter four discusses the great upsurge of Kinlin Culture in China and Japan after ZhengHe went to the Western world ,and analyzes the relationship between the accidence that forcing countries presented some giraffes to China and Kinlin Culture's population in the Ming and the Qing Dynasties.This thesis is the first treatise that discusses about Kilin Culture from the angle how to study the history of the Sino-Foreign relations.lt discusses about the development of Kilin Culture in a systermatic way.Throught these discussions,!! studies the circomstance about the Sino-Foreign cultural exchanges.I hope it can open up a new path and a new problem for the historical study on the Sino-Foreign relations.