The overland Silk Road originated in the Western Han Dynasty (202-8 years ago), starting from the capital Chang 'an (now Xi 'an), passing through Gansu and Xinjiang, reaching Central Asia and West Asia and connecting Mediterranean countries. Its original function was to transport silk produced in ancient China.
1877, German geologist Richthofen named the "Silk Road" from BC 1 14 to AD 127 as "the traffic road between China and Central Asia, and between China and India", which was quickly accepted by the academic circles and the public.
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The heyday of the Silk Road traffic was the powerful Tang Dynasty established after the Sui Dynasty.
Li Shimin, the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, defeated Tuyuhun in East Turkistan and surrendered to the north and south of the desert. Li Zhi and Tang Gaozong once again destroyed the West Turkic, with Anxi and Beiting as their capital.
The territory of the Tang Empire, starting from the Korean seashore in the east and extending to the Yangtze River (Amu Darya River and Tigris River) in the west, was the first developed and powerful country in the world at that time, and its economic and cultural development level was among the highest in the world. The East and the West have conducted all-round friendly exchanges through the bridge of the Silk Road and the Great Food Empire.
The smoothness and prosperity of the Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty further promoted the ideological and cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and had a positive and far-reaching impact on the development of social and national thoughts of both sides in the future. This kind of ideological and cultural exchange is closely related to religion.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Silk Road