What development concept does the Maritime Silk Road embody?

The Silk Road has promoted mutual understanding, exchange and absorption between the two civilized regions. The Silk Road to China is a very important event in the history of world cultural exchange, which was earlier than the opening of the new sea route 1500 years.

"Maritime Silk Road" is a maritime passage for transportation, trade and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries in ancient times. This road is mainly centered on the South China Sea and starts from Guangzhou, so it is also called the South China Sea Silk Road. The Maritime Silk Road was formed in the Qin and Han Dynasties, developed in the Three Kingdoms and Sui Dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and changed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is the oldest known sea route. After the opening of the Maritime Silk Road, before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was only a supplementary form of the onshore Silk Road. However, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the constant wars in the western regions, the Silk Road on land was blocked by the wars and replaced by the Maritime Silk Road. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, with the development of shipbuilding and navigation technology in China, China's sea routes to Southeast Asia, Malacca Strait, Indian Ocean, Red Sea and African continent were successively opened and extended, and the Maritime Silk Road eventually replaced the land Silk Road and became the main channel for China's foreign exchanges. At that time, the commodities exported through the Maritime Silk Road were mainly silk, porcelain, tea and copper and iron, and the main commodities shipped to China were spices, flowers and some rare treasures for the imperial court to enjoy, so the Maritime Silk Road was also called the Maritime Ceramic Road and the Maritime Medicine Road. When Zheng He went to the Western Ocean in the early Ming Dynasty, the Maritime Silk Road reached its peak. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties after Zheng He, due to the implementation of the maritime ban policy, China's maritime industry began to decline, and the maritime Silk Road, which had made great contributions to the exchanges between the East and the West, gradually died out.

Compared with the Maritime Silk Road, the overland Silk Road is one of the earliest windows for China and the western world to understand each other. After the opening of the Silk Road, China's silk products enjoyed a high reputation in Europe, especially in the Roman Empire, which regarded China's silk products as precious items and called China "the country of silk". Caesar, the consul of Rome and China, once appeared in the theater in a silk robe, causing a sensation. Later, wearing China silk robes became the social fashion of the upper class in Rome. The Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, from 202 BC to 220 AD, were the initial prosperity stages of China feudal society, and they had already created cultural achievements with world influence, such as Confucianism, the Great Wall and the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. At that time, Europe was in the era of Roman Empire, at the peak of slavery society, and the story of Caesar and Octavian and Christianity was recorded in history. China culture has influenced many countries and regions in East Asia, and Roman culture has also influenced Europe and the Mediterranean. At that time, what the two civilized regions of the East and the West lacked was mutual understanding, mutual communication and mutual absorption. Therefore, the Silk Road to China is a very important event in the history of world cultural exchange, which was earlier than the opening of the new air route 1500 years. Secondly, the Silk Road is a channel for the ancient western minorities in China to accept advanced culture and understand the outside world. The Han people's cast iron, ditching and sinking techniques, silk products and metal tools were introduced to the western regions, which greatly promoted the economic and cultural development of the western regions. Thirdly, the Silk Road is one of the greatest feats in China's ancient history. China's ancient world feats include the Great Wall, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the Grand Canal and the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, which are universally recognized, and tourists are like boats. Comparatively speaking, the Silk Road can be regarded as a real feat of China, because it shows the foresight of China people in opening up to the world. Secondly, Europe had no contact with China, and ancient China people didn't know how big the world was. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, under the influence of China's concept, North Korea had a "map of the world", which occupied the whole map with China as the center, surrounded by a circle of sea and another circle of dams. Numerous small rectangular strips in the ocean represent many islands, including Japan and many unknown "lilliputian countries" and "women's countries". Until the Opium War, the emperor of China thought that China was "the kingdom of China" and made many mistakes. However, as early as the Western Han Dynasty about 2000 years before the Opium War, the people of China made a lot of preparations for the opening of the Silk Road. Fourthly, the Silk Road is the first story that needs to be understood most in the development of western China in modern times.