美国学者詹启华曾经断言,“孔夫子”这个今天一般世人对儒家创始人孔子的汉语称谓,在利玛窦来到之前的中国本土语言和思想文献中几乎不存在,它完全是利玛窦等西洋耶稣会传教士们“创造”和“制造”的结果。事实上,无论从西洋耶稣会传教士来华前的历史文物还是思想典籍两个方面来看,詹启华的上述说法都不能成立。 American scholar Zhan Qihua once asserted that “Confucius,” the common Chinese name for today’s Confucian founder, Confucius, hardly existed in Chinese native language and ideological literature until Matteo Ricci came, and it is entirely Ricci Such as the Jesuit missionaries in the West “create” and “make” results. In fact, Zhanqihua’s argument can not be found either in terms of historical relics or pre-existential missionaries of the Jesuits in China.