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The Silk Road History
The Silk Road, cross Asia from China to Europe, is not really a single road, rather a sea & land network of related ancient trade routes through Xian, Dunhuang, Lanzhou, Turpan, Kashgar and Central Asian countries.
Turpan Grape Festival
Xinjiang Grape Festival was first launched in 1990 and become an annual event for Uygur people to celebrate the grape harvest at Grape Valley in Turpan Depression. You can this festival with opening ceremony, grape variety plantation and grape wine contest, entertainment, carnival, food, exhibitions, shows and more special activities and table delicacies....
Dunhuang Murals Reveal Chinese Festival Traditions
The Dunhuang Research Academy released a series of ancient Dunhuang murals online Sunday, revealing rich customs and traditions from the Longtaitou Festival, including sacrifice, haircuts, farming, enlightening education and tasting "dragon food".
History of Chinese Silk
After China maintained its virtual silk monopoly over thousand years, silk spread gradually through Chinese culture and trade to the Japanese, the Indians, the Middle East and more regions of Asia, later Mediterranean and Europe.
Facts about Silk
Sericulture covers a circle of the cultivated and raised stages of silk produce under controlled conditions: moth egg - silkworm - pupae & cocoon - moth; until the cocoons reach the filature.
Marco Polo Trail on Silk Road China
The provinces mentioned on Marco Polo travels & Trip in China are modern Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan. Marco visited many cities along the way; here Taiyuan, Xian, Chengdu, Tibet and more are on his city comments.
Ethnic Groups & Religions on the Silk Road
On the Silk Road China, 15 local ethnic groups have inhabited for a long history, together with other 30 ethnic minorities and they believe in Islam, Lamaism (Tibetan Buddhism), Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox, Shamanism and more religions.
City & Country on Silk Road Trade Routes
The Silk Road is an extensive sea & land network of related ancient trade routes from Xi'an to Rome through many contries and cities such as Syria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, China and more...
Maritime Silk Road on the Sea
Distinguished it from the traditional Silk Road, the Maritime Trade Route linked the East and West was given the name 'Silk Road on the Sea' by a Japanese scholar in 1967. The two most favored courses followed by trade ships were those of the East China and South China Sea Routes.
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Silk Trade & Products in China
China is the first country to breed silkworms and to make silk into clothing in the world. In ancient time, China was called "The Empire of Clothing" because of the trade of Chinese silk products.
