"Silk Road" is a commercial and trade road connecting China with other continents in ancient times. It puts Asia, Europe.
Africa is linked by trade and cultural exchanges. The Silk Road originated in the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, who sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions. This is the original form of the Silk Road. At that time, the Silk Road began in Luoyang. After arriving in Xinjiang, it was divided into three roads: North, South and Middle, reaching the Eastern Mediterranean and the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Xinjiang culture
Shan Hai Jing and Mu Zhuan, written in the Warring States Period, tell the story of traveling westward to Kunlun and meeting the Queen Mother of the West. A large number of pottery unearthed from archaeological excavations in Xinjiang, many of which are the same or similar to those unearthed in the Central Plains at the same time.
Painted pottery unearthed in Xinjiang 3000 years ago, such as triangle pattern, vortex pattern, chord pattern and the shape of pottery beans, shows that the painted pottery art in Gansu and the mainland has had an impact on the development of painted pottery culture in Xinjiang.
From 1995, 10 to 1 10, the colorful brocade quilt unearthed from the No.3 coffin of Minfeng Niya Site was woven with Chinese characters and patterns of Xiao Zhuan, which read "The princes fainted and lived forever". A colorful brocade bag unearthed from No.8 Coffin bears the words of seal script: "Five stars come from the East, which is beneficial to China".
It reveals the close political and economic relationship between Niya and the Central Plains Dynasty in the Han and Jin Dynasties. Poets in the Tang Dynasty, such as Luo and Hong, wrote wonderful poems such as majestic desert, magnificent mountains and rivers, strange weather and tragic wonders, which are well-known and enduring, and are called "frontier poems" in the history of China literature.
As Buddhism spread from India to the Western Regions and even to Chinese mainland along the Silk Road. Buddhist culture became the most important content in the western regions at that time. Kumarajiva, a translator of Qiuci Buddhism and Buddhist scriptures, came to the mainland to lecture, translate and write scriptures. The eminent monks of the Eastern Jin Dynasty went to India to learn from the scriptures through the Western Regions and wrote down the story of Buddhism.
Meet Maitreya, the Uighur text, is the earliest drama and literary script in China, which was born in the Western Regions. Qiuci music, Gaochang music and Shule music played an important role in Sui and Tang Dynasties.
In addition to music, traditional western musical instruments such as pipa, harp, drum and horn were also introduced to the mainland and became the main musical instruments in the Tang Dynasty and later generations. Western dances, such as Hu Teng Dance, Hu Xuan Dance and Tuozhi Dance, were introduced to the Central Plains court and even to the people.
Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Karahan Dynasty (from the end of the 9th century to 12 1 1), with the introduction and gradual expansion of Islam into the western regions, Islamic culture had a growing influence on the western regions.
The famous Turkish scholar Yusef Haas Hajifu compiled an encyclopedia of poetry, Fule Wisdom, which reflected the social and spiritual and cultural life at that time. Mohammad Kashigar, a well-known Uighur scholar, wrote a Turkic dictionary, and Ying Supu Aji, a Uighur poet, wrote the love narrative poem Aref and Sainaim.
There was a famous writer Ma Zuchang in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. Guan Yunshi, a famous Sanqu writer; Lu Mingshan, a famous agronomist, wrote a summary of food and clothing for farmers and mulberry. Chen Cheng, a Ming Dynasty traveler, wrote The Journey to the West and History of Guo Fan's Western Regions.
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