The Silk Road Brought Chinese Culture to the World

When it comes to Chinese culture, we firstly think of the spiritual civilization, such as Taoism and Confucianism. These two absolutely can not be ignored when we were talking about Chinese ancient history because ceramic and silk also belong to a category of Chinese culture. As for silk, the most well-known one should be the silk road, which not only brought much economic support for its dynasty but also brought Chinese culture to the world.

The main point of silk road is its sale and marketing, which is to sell it to foreign countries, namely open to outside world, the way known by nowadays people. However, there was no doubt that it was quite difficult to achieve this at that time. At that time, the silk industry already has a very good development in China, while the market is quite backward in Japan, South Korea and other places. And that is the reason why Zhang Qian started his silk sales trip to from western regions Chang An. The silk road is not just a bridge that benefit the communication between Chinese and western cultures, but a bridge that benefit the mutual exchange between Chinese and western cultures and economy, which promoted the mutual development of the Chinese and western cultures.

Silk, just like porcelain is honored as the most important development identity for its time. The presence of the silk road represented the true exchange of China and western countries. Rich merchants or the noble officials developed their own unique sales road through the silk road, which was very important to the economic development of that ancient time. On the other hand, achieving this goal highly relied on the development of the ancient silk road. It was the lack of resources in other countries that accelerated the success of Chinese silk market.

Silk industry as another important identity is as important as ceramics, naturally its technology is quite mature. Till today, we are impressed by the wisdom of the ancients and the wealth they left us is quite valuable. Hence, if we can have a more profound understanding of their wealth, we will absolutely gain a lot of benefit!