丝绸之路简单介绍The Silk Road.ppt

The Silk Road Introduction The Silk Road refers to the ancient trade route connecting Asia Continent and European Continent, usually it can be classified into Northern Silk Road on the land and Southern Silk Road on the sea. The Southern Silk Road started from Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Dengzhou, Yangzhou, Mingzhou ports, it can go east to Corea, Japan, south to East-southern countries and west to Europe and Africa. The Northern Silk Road refers to the routes start from Xi’an, travelling west to Wuwei, passing though Hexi Corridor to Dunhuang and go west to Europe. the first official diplomat to bring back reliable information about?Central Asia?to the Chinese imperial court—Han Dynasty. Zhang Qian Went Western Region twice separately in 138 B.C and 119B.C, which played an important role in exploring the Silk Road. Economics Some items traded along the Silk Road Oud Bactrian camels glass Carpets Metal work Porcelain Jade Spices Silk Religion Buddhism at Dunhuang Between 600 and 1000 A.D., Buddhists built hundreds of cave temples around Dunhuang depicting scenes of Buddha Assembled libraries of religious literature Supported missionaries which spread Buddhism throughout China Brief summary This well development of the network of the Silk Road is the precious wonder of mankind in our history. It enabled people in the past to interact with each other that results in the exchanges of culture, religion, technology, skills of art and so on. Because this great interactivities happened along the Silk Road, now todays archaeologists and art historians will be able to excavate the properties in the influences of the multicultural under the ground to work together in order to reveal the true stories in the past. Thanks