561_5010808_丝绸之路 SILK ROAD 英语演讲PPT.ppt
SILK ROAD,Producer:GAOLC,CONTENTS,INTRODUCTION,CLASSIC SILK ROAD,HISTORY,SIGNIFICANCE,3,INTRODUCTION,The Silk Road,or Silk Route,is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting West and East by linking traders,merchants,pilgrims,monks,soldiers,nomads and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time.,INTRODUCTION,The Silk Road gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade,a major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive transcontinental network.So,some scholars prefer the term Silk Routes because the road included an extensive network of routes.,CLASSIC SILK ROAD,CLASSIC SILK ROAD,Changan/LuoyangGansuMerv(Turkmenistan),Ganges/Brahmaputra Delta Himalayas Tibet,KarakoramPakistanAfghanistanLevant Anatolia/North Africa,HISTORY,Precursors,The Tarim mummies,mummies of non-Mongoloid,apparently Caucasoid,individuals,have been found in the Tarim Basin,in the area of Loulan located along the Silk Road 200 kilometres(124 miles)east of Yingpan,dating to as early as 1600 BC and suggesting very ancient contacts between East and West.,Hellenistic era,Probable Greek soldier in the Sampul tapestry,woollen wall hanging,3rd2nd century BC.,Coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus(230200 BC).,Chinese exploration of Central Asia,Woven silk textile from Tomb No.1 at Mawangdui,Changsha,Hunan province,China,dated to the Western Han Era,2nd century BC.,A pottery horse head and neck(broken from the body)of the Late Han Dynasty(1st2nd century AD).,Roman Empire&Medieval,A Westerner on a camel,Northern Wei Dynasty(386534).,A sancai statue of a foreigner with a wineskin,Tang Dynasty(618907).,Mongol age,Map of Marco Polos travels in 12711295.,The Mongol Empire and its sphere of influence.,SIGNIFICANCE,Transmission of art,Transmission of Buddhism,Cultural exchanges,Re-establishment,Italian pottery of the mid-15th century was heavily influenced by Chinese ceramics.A Sancai(Three colors)plate(left),and a Ming-type blue-white vase(right),made in Northern Italy.,Iconographical evolution of the Wind God.Left:Greek Wind God from Hadda,2nd century.Middle:Wind God from Kizil,Tarim Basin,7th century.Right:Japanese Wind God Fujin,17th century.,TRANSMISSION OF ART,TRANSMISSION OF BUDDHISM,Atisa of Bengal travelled to Tibet and Sumatra,pioneering new schools of Mahayana Buddhism,10th-11th century.,Central Asian monk teaching East Asian monk,9th10th century.,THANKS FOR WATCHING!,
