Now commonly known as the "Silk Road on Land", it refers to the land trade passage formed between the 2nd century BC and the 1 century AD. Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, forming a basic trunk road connecting the hinterland of China and all parts of Europe. It starts from Chang 'an in the Western Han Dynasty (Luoyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty) and goes to Dunhuang via Hexi Corridor.
This passage has been used until the16th century, and it is the main road for economic, political and cultural exchanges between the East and the West.
Note: At the Second World Archaeological Forum, Wang Wei, director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, gave a keynote speech entitled "The Silk Road before the Han Dynasty", which explained the early cultural exchanges in Eurasia in detail from the perspective of archaeological discoveries. At the end of his speech, he pointed out: "Zhang Qian's communication with the western regions in the Han Dynasty was not the beginning of the Silk Road, but a new era of communication between the East and the West in ancient times. That is, from sporadic, intermittent and small-scale non-governmental exchanges to large-scale, continuous, official and civilian exchanges. "
Now commonly known as the "Silk Road on Land", it refers to the land trade passage formed between the 2nd century BC and the 1 century AD. Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, forming a basic trunk road connecting the hinterland of China and all parts of Europe. It starts from Chang 'an in the Western Han Dynasty (Luoyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty) and goes to Dunhuang via Hexi Corridor. This passage has been used until the16th century, and it is the main road for economic, political and cultural exchanges between the East and the West.