The influence of the silk road on China and foreign countries

1. The 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 and at the peak of slavery society. History records the stories of Caesar and Octavian, as well as the stories of Christianity.

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.

2. 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.

The Silk Road is one of the greatest feats in the ancient history of China.

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", with China as the center occupying the whole map, surrounded by a circle of seas and dams. Countless 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 "China" and made many jokes. 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.

4. The Silk Road is the first story that needs to be known most in the development of western China.

Today, speeding up the development of the western region is an important strategic decision made by the party and the country at the turn of the century, and it is also a grand strategy for national development in 2 1 century. Looking at the development of the western region from a historical perspective, one of the first tasks is to understand the prosperity and reasons of the western region, the ancient social and economic center of China, and to understand the history of the Silk Road as far back as 2,000 years ago.

Extended data:

The overland Silk Road originated from the overland passage opened by Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty, starting from Chang 'an and passing through Gansu and Xinjiang to Central Asia and West Asia, connecting Mediterranean countries. Its original function was to transport silk produced in China. 1877, German Richthofen named the Silk Road as "the traffic road in the western regions between China and Central Asia and between China and India from BC 1 14 to AD 127".

The Maritime Silk Road is a maritime passage for transportation, trade and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries in ancient times. This road is centered on the South China Sea, also known as the South China Sea Silk Road. It was formed in the Qin and Han Dynasties, developed from the Three Kingdoms to the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and changed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is the oldest known sea route.

Modern evolution

Oil has made the Silk Road once again the hub of the world-the Silk Road has become the oil road. A new era of the Silk Road has begun. The President of Turkmenistan visited China and welcomed China's exploration of Caspian oil resources.

Before the trip, the President of Turkmenistan also announced that he would give China the most precious gift-the bloody BMW. BMW and petroleum, one is ancient animal power, the other is modern energy. They are so strangely intertwined that people can't help but recall the distant Silk Road era.

The revival of the "Silk Road" trade passage is of great practical significance to China's economic development and social progress. China has carried out a lot of diplomatic activities on the "New Silk Road", but China needs to upgrade the "Silk Road Diplomacy" to a strategic level.

The reason is that the development of "Silk Road Diplomacy" will not only help China break through the current trade and energy difficulties, but also greatly strengthen the cultural exchanges between China and neighboring countries and substantially improve the security situation in China. China should pay attention to guard against non-traditional security threats in its "New Silk Road Diplomacy", make good use of various international coordination mechanisms including the United Nations, and avoid vicious competition among major powers.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Silk Road (an ancient commercial road connecting China and the West)