In the second year of Emperor Xuandi of Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu was surrendered by Wang Xianxian, and the Western Han government won the final victory of the Xiongnu War, and established the Western Regions Duhu House, which was the beginning of the central dynasty's formal establishment of administrative institutions in the vast area east of Congling and south of present Balkhash Lake.
Since then, Xinjiang has been under the jurisdiction of the central government and has become an inseparable part of China. The Western Han government set up garrison officers in the western regions, sent foot soldiers to station fields, and set up a captain to take charge of protection, which made the contacts between Han people and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang closer. Marked by the establishment of the Western Regions' Hufu in the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road entered a prosperous era from the road of communication in the Western Han Dynasty.
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In BC 138, Zhang Qian was ordered to go to the Western Regions. After many obstacles, he finally led the camel team across the Gobi, opened up a Silk Road across China and the West, and built an important bridge for the exchange of civilizations between the East and the West, thus promoting the political, economic and cultural dialogue and integration between the East and the West.
The Silk Road is a trade road. Products with oriental characteristics, such as silk, porcelain, tea, etc. With an endless stream of merchants and camels wandering westward, they crossed the Central Asian continent and arrived in Europe. The nobles in ancient Rome fell in love with the beautiful silk from the East at first sight and praised it as "beautiful in color and slender as spider silk".
The Silk Road is the road to the spread of civilization. "Silkworms are cocooned and spun into silk, which can be used as a banner outside the tent." The poem by the poet Wang Jian in the Tang Dynasty describes the scene that people in Liangzhou, located at the crossroads of the Silk Road, were influenced by the culture of the Central Plains to raise silkworms and reel their silk. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was rich in products and confident in culture.
Relying on the material carrier, the ancient civilization of China has spread and developed for thousands of years to nomadic people in border towns and even countries around the world. /kloc-in the 0/7th century, the moral code of Voltaire, a French enlightenment thinker, was Confucius' "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you".
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