丝绸之路意义及价值英文.docx

Significance and Value of the Silk Road Abstract ： Silk Road, a trade and cultural exchanges road which have more than two thousand years of the history. This semester we have learned knowledge about all aspects of the Silk Road, and now, when we look again toward the road with vicissitudes in the sand and the long silence, as if we can also through thousands of years of time to see it s prosperity’. This road has attracted the attention of many people, including government officials, scholars, professors and ordinary students, businessmen, tourists. What is the value of it W hat ’s significance that we understand it, learn it, research it, and develop it This article briefly describes the historical significance of Silk Road: including trade, scientific and technological, political, ethnic, religious, artistic; academic research value of Silk Road: for history, geography, sociology, etc.;the value of the Silk Road tourism development. Key Words : Silk Road; significance; value 1. Introduction The Silk Road refers to the road opened up in the Han Dynasty, starts with Chang 'an (now Xi'an) or Luoyang, pass with Gansu, Xinjiang to Central Asia, West Asia, and links the Mediterranean countries land access. This road is also known as the "overland Silk Road" or "Oasis Silk Road ” . Generalized Silk Road refers throughout Eurasia or North Africa and East Africa, including the general term of the long-distance business and cultural exchange lines began to form from antiquity. In addition to the above route, including grassland Silk Road formed in about the 5th century, maritime silk route formed in medieval early years and played a huge role in the Song Dynasty and the Southern Silk Road which appeared at the same time of the Northwestern Silk Road s ’ formation, and replaced it as the overland communication channel in the early Song Dynasty. Significance First, caravan on the Silk Road transported the rare animals, plants, leather goods, herbs, spices, jewelry from t