Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was invented during the Han dynasty, probably just at the time the Silk Road trade was b...
Silk Road goods carried overland were not loaded onto camels and carried from China to Europe. Goods made their way westward in a piecemeal way, with a lot trading and loading and unloading at the caravan stops along the way.
Different caravans carried goods during different se...
Numerous poems scattered on the Silk Road should have been edited and translated to form a great work. We selected merely 20 poems of them with the translation...
从军行七首(其四)
王昌龄
青海长云暗雪山,
孤城遥望玉门关。
黄沙百战穿金甲,
不破楼兰终不还。ARMY LIFE
Wang Changling
IV
Clouds on frontier o'ershadow mountains clad in...
少 年 行(其一)
王 维
新丰美酒斗十千,
咸阳游侠多少年。
相逢意气为君饮,
系马高楼垂柳边。Young Chivalrous Men
Wang Wei
(?-761)
(I)
More chivalrous travelers fostered i...
杂 诗
佚名
无定河边暮角声,
赫连台畔旅人情。
函关归路千余里,
一夕秋风白发生。A Miscellaneous Poem
Anonymous Author
The Violent River called with a sunset-horn;
The...
塞下曲六首(其一)
李白
五月天山雪,
无花只有寒。
笛中闻折柳,
春色未曾看。
晓战随金鼓,
宵眠抱玉鞍。
愿将腰下剑,
直为斩楼蓝。One of the Selected Frontier Songs
Li Bai
(70...
白雪歌送武判官归京
岑 参
北风卷地白草折,胡天八月即飞雪。
忽如一夜春风来,千树万树梨花开。
散入珠帘湿罗幕,狐裘不暖锦衾薄。
将军角弓不得控,都护铁衣冷难着。
翰海阑干百...
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