Han Dynasty Maritime Silk Road (English Edition)

The birth of the Silk Road is considered to be the most important event in the economic and cultural relationship between the East and the West in ancient times, so it has attracted many research interests. scholar. There have been many detailed studies on the land Silk Road, but so far, there are still many untapped gaps in the knowledge of the Maritime Silk Road, which has been stimulating people's interest. Research and scientist research.
China is the hometown of silk. From a very young age, silkworms and famous Chinese textiles were shipped abroad. The increasing popularity and the transportation of silk products to the West gradually formed an international trade route, which was later called the Silk Road. In 1877, the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905) first proposed the concept of "Silk Road" in his book "China" (Seidenstranssen in German, English as The Silk Road (Silk Road) refers to the ancient land trade route between China and the West. Since this route is mainly silk trade, it is called the Silk Road. After the name appeared, many scholars agreed that Chinese silk not only traveled by land And it was exported to the West by sea. French Sinologist Edourd Chavanse (1865-1918) clearly asserted in his work "History of Western Turks" that "the Silk Road has two routes: land and sea" [ 1]. The international scholarship unifies the name of the "Silk Road" to refer to the ancient trade routes between South Asia, West Asia and Europe and North Africa originating from China, including land and sea.