| 摘 要： | 正The Silk Road (丝绸之路sīchóu zhīlù):Broadly speaking, this term refers to both the land Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road. The land Silk Road was formed during the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC–200 AD), starting from Chang’an (now Xi’an), passing through today’s Gansu Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and then Central and Western Asia, and connecting the Mediterranean countries. Its original function was to transport the silk produced in ancient China to the West, which later turned to the exchange between China and the West in a broader
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