In fact, some people think that the "West Sea" is the Caspian Sea through the understanding of the rest to the east of the Caspian Sea, and this statement of "arriving in six days" coincides with Herodotus, the father of history, who said that the widest part of the Caspian Sea needs eight days. Along the direction of "going north by land, going north by sea, going west and going south by Haixi", they put forward the view that Daqin and Haixi are on the west bank of Caspian Sea.
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, which was written in the 5th century, only records that "Ban Chao sent Gan Ying to Daqin as a reward. When you are at the seaside, you want to kill time, but when you are resting in the west, the ship enters Britain and says,' The sea is vast, and people come and go get their time in March when the wind is fine. If there is a night breeze and there are two-year-old people, then everyone who enters the sea will be three years old. The goodness in the sea makes people yearn for land, and there are many dead people. The story of "English is the only way to stop it" Some people think that when Gan Ying came to Tiaozhi, he wanted to go home, so he made up some stories to deceive his boss, while the Book of Later Han took the lies of officials seriously.
In addition, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty also contains 500 to 600 words about the Great Qin State, such as: "The Great Qin State, the plowman, is on the west coast of the sea, but also on the west coast of the sea ... people are vulgar and cultured, and all kinds of trees and silkworms ... Their people have grown up, just like China, so it is called the Great Qin State ... King Andun of the Great Qin sent envoys from Japan (county). Among them, An Dun, King of the Qin Dynasty, is his new theory, and the rest are mostly abridged versions of Hanshu and Wei Lue.
According to the saying that "Daqin is Rome", some people think that "King Andun of Daqin" is "Emperor antonioni of Rome" (reign time 16 1- 180). Those who oppose this view think that they can't explain that "the people ... are all like China, so they are called Daqin". Opponents of this view also point out that there was a man named An Tong in the Yuan Dynasty, who was a transliteration of Mongolian "altan" ("Aritan"), and "An Dun" may also be evidence that the King of Qin was a Mongolian. The value of Wei Lue is that it records a lot of business travel knowledge, and records the products of Daqin State in detail. From today's perspective, the "carpet" rich in Daqin is the world-famous "Persian carpet". The sericulture in the South Caucasus is also evidence that ancient East Asian peoples migrated there.
/kloc-In the 5th century, the Spanish messenger Claviyo passed through Tabrizi and Zan on his way to Soltani Ye, 30 kilometers southeast of Zan, witnessing the richness of products and the prosperity of business. In "The Ambassador to the East of Craviju", he said: "Silk produced in Kelan Province on the south bank of the Caspian Sea is also shipped to our city first, and then to Damascus, Syria and other big cities, such as Turkey and Jaffa. As for the silk produced by Shmakhy in Shirvan (according to the Kula River basin in outer Azerbaijan), it was also shipped to this city. Martha's black silk has a huge output; In addition to Iranian businessmen selling goods for it, businessmen from Genoa and Venice also go there to purchase. "
Claviyo added: "Shiraz (now translated as Shiraz) and all kinds of fabrics, silks, silks, satins, wanqi and other commodities produced nearby are sent to Yecheng, Soltani for promotion. Cloth produced by Serbs in Ye Sen and Khorasan is also sold in the market. ..... From then on, Hume (Hormuz) began to transport goods from Soltanieh, such as pearls and precious stones. Jewelers also buy mussels and pearls from the sea. The shell of the giant clam is very big, and the cut pearls are pure white. They were sent to Soltani and Tabrizi, where craftsmen made them into rings, earrings and other decorations. " He also said: "There are six timetables from Soltanieh to the Caspian Sea (that is, the coast of Kelan Province). Gems are also produced near the Caspian Sea. " Comparing these statements of the ancient law with the records in Wei Lue, we can find that what the merchants in Han Dynasty said is true. The news of China's discovery of Nestorianism in Daqin was reported to the Vatican by western missionaries in China, which triggered an academic upsurge in European academic circles to study the ancient place name "Daqin" in China. But perhaps because of the misleading religious enthusiasm, the truth that "Daqin is Persia" has not been publicized, and the view that "Daqin is Rome" has been popular for some time. Until 1885, Friedrich Hirth, a German scholar, published his magnum opus "Complete Works of the Great Qin State", arguing that the vast "West Sea" mentioned by Gan Ying could not be the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, but the Persian Gulf in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, Erdaqin should be in Syria.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Japanese scholar Bai Niao Kuraji believed that the West Sea generally refers to the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and Daqin should be Egypt to the west of the Red Sea. The name of the Egyptian city of Alexandria, omitting the sounds of A and S, is called Lekan, which should be "Plow" in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty or "Li Xuan" in the Biography of Dawan. Egypt and Syria were both Roman territories at the beginning of the era. French scholar Pelliott supported Bai Niao. Bai Niao and pelliot are the leading sinologists in the 20th century. They used the argument that "Li Xuan is Alexander" to help spread the theory that "Daqin is Rome".
Buriott said, "I'm sure the plow must be Alexander". According to the Chinese translation of the Buddhist sutra Naxian Bhikkhu Sutra, there is a sentence of "Wang Yan, I was born in the Great Qin State, and my name is Alishan". Bertrand said that Baliwen said that the king was born in "Kalasi Village, Alasanda". He thinks that "Alishan" is the transliteration of Alasanda and also the transliteration of "Alexander", so Daqin must refer to Egypt. In fact, "Orasan" or "Alasan" is a variant of the place name "Khorasan" in eastern Persia. Khorasan was very popular with Buddhism in ancient Afghanistan, but Egypt was not one of them. Ali III is Khorasan, and Daqin is undoubtedly called Persia by China people.
Dialectically speaking, it is better to dredge the relevant words in Wei Lue. We only need to know that the West Sea is the Caspian Sea, the West Coast is Baku, and the capital of Daqin is Tabrizi. We should interpret the "flying bridge" as a peninsula and the "accumulated stone" as a rocky mountain without vegetation, then change the word "zhi" to "zhi", correct individual directions, and match the pictures of mountains and rivers to make the whole story seem immersive. Ancient China traveled across oceans, and Persia and the Near East were the first steps.