Zhang Qian—The Father of the Silk Road
- 2017-12-14
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In the Western Han dynasty, the western regions, in a narrower sense, means the area to the west of Yumenguan and Yang guan (to the east of Dunhuang, Gansu province), to the east of Congling, to the north of the Kunlun Mountains, to the south of Lake Balkhash. In a broader sense,...
a brief historical overview of the silk road
- 2017-12-11
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Historians look back at the events of the past and use them as a tool for analyzing the state of the world today. Civilizations have dealt with numerous problem...
The Mongolian Horse and the Blood-Sweating Stallions
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The Arrival of the Heavenly Mare
天馬徠兮 從西極
經萬里兮 歸有徳
承靈威兮 降外國
渉流沙兮 四夷服[a]
The heavenly horses have arrive from the Western frontier...
History of Silk
- 2017-12-11
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Sogdian silk,8th centurySericulture or silk production has a long and colorful history unknown to most people. For centuries the West knew very little about sil...
The dance drama "Silk Road, Flower Rain"
- 2017-12-11
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The "Silk Road, Flower Rain" was rated as the sample of China natioanl dance drama.It was created by Gansu Song and Dance Theater with the world-renowned Dunhu...
Style and Artistry of Dunhuang Art
- 2017-12-11
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The Murals of Dunhuang Caves are rated among the rare treasures of the world not only for their enormous quantity, but also for their scale and richness of cont...
SILK ROAD CHRONOLOGY
- 2017-12-10
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5000-500 B.C 3200 Horse domesticated on south Russian steppe. 3000 Minoan civilization starts, the earliest in Europe. 3000 Silk first produced in Chin...
Aurel Stein
- 2017-12-10
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Aurel Stein was born on November 26, 1862 in Pest as the third child of a highly educated bourgeois family. His education was overseen not by his elderly parents, but rather by his uncle on his mother’s side, the eye-specialist Ignác Hirschler, the founder of Hungarian ophthalm...
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