中英雙語話史記 第49期:西漢和親

Policy of Pacification Through Marriage

西漢和親

Marrying daughters of the Han imperial family to the rulers of the minority groups was one of the foreign policies of pacification in the Western Han Dynasty (206B.C.----8A.D.).

將皇家的女兒嫁給少數名族是西漢時期（公元前206年至公元8年）的和平外交政策之一。

The policy had gone through two stages.

這個政策分爲兩步。

At first, Han rulers took the initiative to marry daughters of the royal family and offer valuables of all kinds so that the Huns could stop harassing the northern border of the empire.

首先漢朝皇帝主動讓皇家的女兒出嫁，然後給予各種珍惜物品，這樣匈奴人就會停止騷擾大漢帝國的北部邊境。

When Emperor Wudi was in power, it was the Huns who proposed to Han for marriage.

漢武帝時期，匈奴主動向漢朝求婚。

In the reign of Emperor Wudi, substantial resources were available to him as a result of his own successful policies as well as those of his predecessors.

武帝執政時期，由於他和先帝們成功的政策，他擁有了大量的富餘物資。

Consequently, he was in a position to take an active and offensive stand against threats of invasion.

因此，他在對抗進犯的威脅時佔據了主動的地位。

He sent three expeditions led by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing against the Huns in 127B.C, 121B.C and 119B.C respectively.

他在公元前127年、公元前121年和公元前119年分別派出了三支由衛青和霍去病帶領的遠征隊。

By these actions, he drove them into the far north of Gobi, thus maintaining the safety of the Hexi Corridor.

通過這些舉措，武帝讓他們遠達隔壁北部，保障了河西走廊的安全。

The threat from the Huns was resolved；however， they did not reach an agreement on the issue of the policy of pacification through marriage.

匈奴人帶來的威脅解除了；但是，他們並未就和親政策達成一致。

During the reign of Emperor Xuandi, the Huns was already in decline.

漢宣帝時期，匈奴已處於頹敗之勢，

And the ruler Huhan decided to pledge allegiance to Han by sending his son to Han as a promise.

匈奴首領呼韓決定將自己的兒子送到漢朝當人質來向大漢宣誓效忠。

Emperor Yuandi, to further a good relationship between the Huns and the Han people, married Wang Zhaojun, a beauty at that time, to the Khan.

漢元帝，通過將當朝的一位美女王昭君嫁給可汗與匈奴和匈奴人民加深了良好的關係。

This action not only stabilized the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Huns, but promoted economic and cultural exchanges between them.

這項舉措不僅穩定了漢朝與匈奴的關係，還加強了它們之間的經濟與文化交流。

Meanwhile, Han also marry daughters of royal families to rulers of Wusun tribe for pacification.

同時，漢朝還將公主嫁給烏孫部和親。

In 71B.C, Han in alliance with Wusun tribe gave the Huns a fatal defeat from which it never recovered.

公元前71年，大漢與烏孫的聯合給了匈奴致命一擊，使其難以恢復。

The policy of marriage for pacification was an important policy helpful to the economic and cultural exchanges between Han and minority groups.

和親政策是對於漢朝和少數名族間經濟與文化交流的一項重要政策。