From the pre Qin period to the Yuan and Ming dynasties, what is the significance of the development

The development of the Silk Road can promote the economic and cultural exchanges and development between China and other neighboring countries, promote the integration of nationalities, and promote the exchange of advanced civilization achievements at home and abroad.

The development of the Silk Road was actually a kind of opening up in ancient China, and the exchanges between China and neighboring countries were more convenient.

The development of the Silk Road was a very important land passage between the East and the West, and it played a very important role in the cultural exchanges between the East and the West.

The Silk Road was opened in the Western Han Dynasty. The Silk Road is a trade route connecting China and the West in ancient times, which was opened up by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions, starting from the capital Chang'an (now Xi'an), passing through Gansu and Xinjiang to Central Asia and West Asia, and connecting the land passage of Mediterranean countries.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to the Western Regions to open up a land passage starting from the capital Chang'an, passing through Gansu and Xinjiang, to Central Asia and West Asia, and connecting the Mediterranean countries. The starting point of the Silk Road in the Eastern Han Dynasty was in Luoyang, and its initial role was to transport silk produced in ancient China, and it became a comprehensive road in the Ming Dynasty.

According to historical records, the Silk Road began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Han and Han dynasties, and was pioneered by Zhang Qian, a famous diplomat in the Western Han Dynasty. Legend has it that in the second year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Qian was ordered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to lead a convoy of more than 100 people to the Western Regions with the Huns as the guide, which became a huge diplomatic activity in Chinese history.

The Silk Road was opened in the Western Han Dynasty, when Chang'an was the starting point, passing through Gansu and Xinjiang to Central Asia and West Asia, and it was also a direct land passage connecting the Mediterranean countries. The original purpose of the Silk Road was to transport Chinese silk, so it was called the "Silk Road".

The Silk Road usually refers to the trade routes in northern Eurasia, in contrast to the ancient tea and horse road in the south, Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty and Ban Chao in the Eastern Han Dynasty opened up a land passage in the Western Regions starting from Chang'an (now Xi'an) and Luoyang, passing through Gansu and Xinjiang to Central Asia and West Asia, and connecting the countries of the Mediterranean. This road was also known as the "Land Silk Road" to distinguish it from the other two transportation routes that would later bear the name "Silk Road".

In the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions began.

The opening of the Silk Road effectively promoted the economic and cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and played a positive role in promoting the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. This Silk Road is still an important route for exchanges between China and the West.

Commodity Exchange: The caravans mainly shipped ironware, gold, silverware, mirrors, and other luxury items from China. Rare animals and birds, plants, hides, medicinal herbs, spices, and jewelry were shipped to China.

Cultural exchange: Ancient Chinese technology spread to the west, and papermaking and paper products were spread out of China and all over the world.

The exchange of religious ideas has enabled Chinese and Western civilizations to come into contact and collide, learn from each other, absorb the nutrients needed for the development of their own cultures from each other's systems, and nourish each other, so that mankind will continue to move forward in the process of conquest and subjugation.

The overland Silk Road originated from the Western Han Dynasty (202-8 BC) when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions to open up a land passage starting from the capital Chang'an (now Xi'an), passing through Gansu and Xinjiang, to Central Asia and West Asia, and connecting the Mediterranean countries.

The starting point of the Silk Road in the Eastern Han Dynasty was Luoyang, and its original role was to transport silk produced in ancient China.

On June 22, 2014, the eastern section of the land Silk Road, "Silk Road: Road Network of the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor", jointly declared by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, was successfully declared as a World Cultural Heritage Site, becoming the first project to be successfully declared a World Heritage Site through cross-border cooperation.

The official opening is the Western Han Dynasty. However, in fact, on the Northern Silk Road, there were people-to-people exchanges between the Shang and Zhou dynasties. For example, the art of solo horseback riding was transmitted at that time.

It used to be in a horse-drawn carriage. The Southern Silk Road was much earlier. The Shang Dynasty had it.

The Steppe Silk Road was even earlier.

The opening of the Silk Road was not for commercial purposes, but for the initial purpose of military strategy (to find the Yueshi to besiege the Xiongnu). Business is additional.

China's objective feudal policy is to emphasize agriculture and suppress business. And if you have seen the map of Han Chang'an, you will find that the city is basically all Huangcheng District, only the northwest corner of the east and west market, basically no residential area. That is, the settlements are far away from the bazaar, all outside the city.

In fact, even if it was the East and West City, the management of the city before the Sui Dynasty was strict, and the city was opened and closed by drums every day, and people had to be driven out after the city was closed. Not to mention the taxation of commerce. It is the old Shi agriculture and industry, and the business is at the end.

Objectively, China has always been a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, that is, almost as long as the simple barter between peasant households can meet the needs of life and production, and the sunrise and daily income, it is really not, and there is no time to go to the city to open merchants to buy and sell things. This state lasted until the Song Dynasty.

The Silk Road usually refers to the trade route in the north of Eurasia, in contrast to the ancient tea and horse road in the south, Zhang Qian first opened up the Silk Road during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty, known as the "hollow journey", after that, the Han Dynasty frequently sent envoys to the west, the farthest Han envoy during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went to Lixuan (now the great port of Arizanta in Egypt), and after the Romans conquered the Seleucid Empire in Syria and the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt, they obtained Chinese silk from the Silk Road through the Rest Empire, the Kushan Empire and the Axum Empire. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Silk Road was cut off for a time, and Banchao in the Eastern Han Dynasty reopened the Western Regions after 58 years of isolation, and the Roman Empire also followed the Silk Road for the first time to Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time. Among the goods carried through this long road, Chinese silk is the most representative, hence the name "Silk Road".

The Silk Road is not only a commercial and trade road between Asia and Europe in ancient times, but also a friendship road to promote friendly exchanges between Asian and European countries and China, and to communicate Eastern and Western cultures. Some famous figures in history, such as Zhang Qian who went to the Western Regions, Ban Chao who threw his pen from Rong, Buddhism who traveled east to seek the law in Yongping, and Xuanzang who learned scriptures from the West, some of their stories are related to this road. This 7,000-kilometre-long road has been formed over the course of more than 300 years and generations, and has been maintained and used for generations.

With the development of the times, the Silk Road has become a collective name for all political, economic and cultural exchanges between ancient China and the West. There is the "Northwest Silk Road", the official channel opened by Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty in the Western Regions; There is the "Steppe Silk Road" that runs north to the Mongolian Plateau and then goes west to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains into Central Asia; There is the rugged "Southwest Silk Road" from Xi'an to Chengdu to India; There are also coastal cities such as Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, etc., from the South Seas to the Arabian Sea, and even as far as the east coast of Africa.

1. During the Song Dynasty, China's navigation technology has developed greatly, and inventions such as the compartment of the hull and the sinan have greatly promoted navigation;

2. Commerce and prosperity in the Song Dynasty, Taizu and Taizong of the Song Dynasty both ordered to encourage commercial activities, and commerce was almost to the extreme in the Song Dynasty;

3. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were no large-scale mineral deposits in the ruling area, and Japan, Nanyang and other places with more production must be reached by sea, which promoted the rise of the sea;

4. Due to the Western Xia, the Mongol Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, the road passage between China and Europe was cut off one after another, and high tax rates were levied on the merchants, which greatly inhibited the land trade, and the merchants had to change the waterway in order to transport silk, porcelain, spices and other goods to Europe in exchange for high profits, which led to the prosperity of the Maritime Silk Road.