Ancient Luoyang played an important role on the Silk Road. We can understand this problem from a historical perspective. Luoyang has a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, 4,000 years of city building and 1500 years of capital building.
There were 105 emperors who settled in Kyushu in Luoyang, which is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation. Known by the world as the Millennium Imperial Capital. There are three world cultural heritages in Luoyang, which are distributed on both sides of the Luohe River.
Erlitou Site in Xiadu, Yanshi Shopping Mall, Eastern Zhou Wangcheng, Han and Wei Ancient City, Luoyang City in Sui and Tang Dynasties and other five capital sites. 20 1 1 was approved by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the World Urban Science Development Alliance and the International Twin Cities Alliance.
Jointly awarded the title of "World Cultural City", it is an important hub of the Sui and Tang Grand Canal.
The relationship between the western countries along the Silk Road and the dynasties with Luoyang as their capital was first manifested in politics, which was the prerequisite for the smooth and prosperous Silk Road.
Based on the opinions of many experts, this paper mainly demonstrates from the following four aspects:
(1) The relevant policies of the feudal dynasty towards the western countries were formulated and promulgated in Luoyang;
(2) Military facilities and management institutions in the western regions along the Silk Road were set up by Luoyang;
(3) The opening of the Silk Road was carried out by Luoyang personnel;
(4) The envoys of Luoyang went to the Western Ocean, and the envoys of the Western Regions came to the East from Luoyang. Many experts discussed this point in detail in their articles.
The maintenance of political relations between feudal dynasties and western countries often depends on the guarantee of military relations. In this regard, Professor Liu Handong of Guangdong Normal University pointed out in the article "Luoyang and the Western Regions in the Han and Sui Dynasties" that war is a continuation of politics, especially under the threat of nomadic tribes in the north invading from the south to the west, the Central Plains regime with Luoyang as its capital must consider military issues and maintain the smooth flow of the Silk Road with strength and victory in the war.
In addition to maintaining good political relations with countries in the western regions from Luoyang as the starting point of the Silk Road, it also has a long-standing relationship with Japan in the East through the Maritime Silk Road. Mr. Xia Yingyuan, a researcher at the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences, made a detailed investigation of Luoyang's position in the history of Sino-Japanese exchanges by using a large number of historical facts, and pointed out that the formal exchanges between Luoyang and Japan began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Japan sent envoys to Luoyang three times in the Cao Wei and Western Jin Dynasties. During the Sui Dynasty, Japan sent envoys to Sui four times, and the last three times were after Emperor Yangdi moved to Luoyang. Of the fifteen envoys sent to Tang, at least three ended up in Luoyang.
Luoyang, the starting point of the Silk Road, was the capital of which dynasty?
Luoyang is the starting point of the Silk Road and the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Silk Road was Zhang Qian's mission to the western regions, starting from Chang 'an (now Xi), passing through Gansu and Xinjiang, reaching Central Asia and West Asia and connecting Mediterranean countries. This road got its name because it mainly trafficked silk from China.
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