Silk Road Background Boundless sand, caravan walking alone, foreign dancing girl, doughy tribes, routhless horses bandits in dersert In the time 2, years ago without any modern means of transport such as railway and planes, etc.
Silk, fur, religion By which Asia and Europe, the Oriental and the West, were tied together. The "Passage" is just Silk Road. It is not only a bridge for trade on the Eurasian continent, but also a path of ethnic migration of human, and also the place of exchanging and gathering of the Oriental Culture and the Western Culture.
The concept of Silk Road was first suggested in by Ferdinand von Richthofen, a German geographer, to specify the road for transporting silk west to Rom from China and the transport between the Oriental and the West generally. Silk Road consists of several branches. For a l ong time, Silk Road, starting from Chang'an Xian today , westward by the way of Hexi Corridor, out of the western region to Central Asia then to the Roman Empire, was considered as the holy road for exchanges between the Oriental and the Western, namely the desert Silk Road.
Of which the middle section passing through Xinjiang also consists of three routes, namely southern route and northern route. Historical Sites along the Silk Road Thousand years had passed over sounding camel bell, and no one knows how many city walls and stories were buried in sand.
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Nowadays, many adventure-lovers choose Silk Road to trace the history during Trips to China , so if you are interested in history of Silk Road, you can consider Xinjiang to explore more. Shaanxi, the land nurturing numerous ancient capitals in history, possesses profound and diverse folk cultures, which are as deep and broad as te Loess Plateau and as vibrant and polymorphous as the Yellow River.
