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1、The Silk Road,The west came to know silk Routes of the Silk Road The meaning of the Silk Road,.The west came to know silk,In the year 119BC, Zhangqian led a second envoy to the western regions. He arrived Yuandu (north India), Rouzhi（月氏）, Daxia (north Afghanistan) and Anxi (north Iran). On his way Z

2、hangqian presented silk as gifts to foreign monarchs, who had had only animal hides and coarse fabric to wear. It aroused great interest in the civilization of the East, and merchants, envoys began came to China in throngs.,(164BC114BC),An explorer, traveler and diplomat in Han dynasty.,As the road

3、to the west was popularly known for its trade of silk, which was priced as valuable as gold, that commercial route came to be known as the Silk Road.,.Routes of the Silk Road,Generally speaking , there were two major routes: one was overland, the other was across the Indian Ocean.,The sea route of “

4、Silk Road” normally starts from Guangxi or else port towns on the southeastern coast of China. A fleet extends its voyage through the sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, South China Sea, the Bay of Bengal（孟加拉湾）, around the Malay Peninsula, off the coast of Burma, and came to Southeast Asia and the India P

5、eninsula. Then, it continues along a route across the Indian Ocean, the Arab Sea, the Persian Gulf(波斯湾), the Red sea and finally arrives at destination ports of Africa or Europe.,Guangxi the sea of Japan the Bay of Bengal the India Peninsula the Persian Gulf,With the development of seamanship and na

6、vigation, particularly after Zhenghe successfully sailed to the West, a sea route to the West took the place of the silk road overland.,The silk road, which is mentioned today, refers exclusively to the overland route. The reason is simple: sea route mainly exported porcelain(瓷器), then silk, gunpowd

7、er, tea, imported species, pepper, cotton and other commodities.,The Silk Road had served for tens of hundreds of years as the main route of business over the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, an artery of Commodity Flow and cultural exchange that gave immense impetus to the rise of major econo

8、mies and civilization of the world. It linked such ancient civilizations as China, India, Greece, Egypt, and Babylonia. In a sense, the Silk Road was no other than a route of culture and civilization.,.The meaning of the Silk Road,Silk garments is regarded as characteristic of the aristocratic （贵族的、高贵的）and the genteel（上流社会的）. As an important variety of the cloth world, under the influence of a “green revolution”, the trend of returning to nature, people find silk to be an ideal c