Adventure Silk Road

Silk Road was the world's first Long-distance trade road, a series of desert and mountains crossing that enabled Silk Road to make its way from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian. The Silk Road allowed links between China and the West to flourish, an exchange of art, ideas and culture as well as trade. In 1877, it was named ‘the Silk Road' by Ferdinand von Richthofen, an eminent German geographer, for silk was the products be exported through this way with a large proportion.

The Silk Road has a total length over 7,000 kilometers; it joins the culture of China, India, Greece and Persia from the 2nd century BC to the 15th century AD. But the most important is that massive silk was spreaded to western world through Silk Road, besides, the skill of sericulture, making gunpowder, making compass, copper smelting, paper making and printing were also known by middle Asia, Iran and Roman through this road. At the same time, the products belong to western world and middle Asia were come to China reciprocally.

Such as Buddhism, Nestorianism, Islam, Astronomy, Calendar, Mathematics, Medicine, Music and Art. Silk Road, the traffic artery between east and west, takes China as the starting point. It is the main way for China expands its national power during prosperous time, the main route for cultural export, cultural and economic exchange between china and west. Except the main direction toward west, the Silk Road also extends to Indochina and araucaria in the south, Korean peninsula and Japan in the east. The Japanese civilization was most benefited by the Silk Road, it can be said the Chinese and western civilization imported to Japan were all by Silk Road.