Zhang Qian was detained in the Xiongnu for more than ten years, and he never forgot his mission
The history of the Silk Road is a condensed world history, and the Silk Road is the most dazzling stage of human civilization. It will not only shape the past of mankind, but also dominate the future of the world.
The "Silk Road" refers to the connection between ancient China and Asia
Ancient overland commercial trade routes of the continent, Africa and Europe. The Narrow Silk Road generally refers to the overland Silk Road. Broadly speaking, it is divided into the overland Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road.
Friends who have been to the northwest have heard of the Thirteen Treasures of the Silk Road, saying glacier water, five-color sand, Gansu medicinal herbs, robin, grape wine, gai bowl tea; Jiuquan wine, Guazhou melon, Lanzhou lily, Karma Sheep Baby, Dunhuang Eight Monsters, Lao Poo Tea, Gannan Cordyceps Top Quack.
Through the Thirteen Treasures of the Silk Road, let us see a picture scroll unfolding on the Silk Road. On the northern line of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the roof of the world, stands the majestic Qilian Glacier, the Dunhuang Mingsha Mountain at the western end of the Qilian Glacier sprinkles all the way golden, and the five-colored sand is directly spread to the depression of Lop Nur and the wild Rob Twist flowers bloom in Dunhuang on the wetland; the snow water of Qilian melts into a river to irrigate the narrow land on the west side of the Gansu River, moisturizing the largest area of Traditional Chinese medicinal materials and melon and fruit grain fields in Gansu; the industrious people under the grape racks are singing and laughing, making wine, eating mutton, tasting bowls of tea, guessing the fist and performing wine orders, lifting jiuquan wine, and holding up Guazhou melons There are lilies in Lanzhou, eight monsters in Dunhuang, and the first-class cordyceps in the Gannan Plateau are full of wine and rice, and do not forget to come to a bowl of tea to sober up the wine and dissolve the grease.
For two thousand years, the Silk Road has dominated the course of human civilization. Emperors, armies, merchants, scholars, monks, and slaves of different races, faiths, and cultures came and went on this path, creating and transmitting wealth, wisdom, religion, art, war, disease, and disaster.
In the second century BC, the Xiongnu swept the Yueshi people all the way to the west, hacked the Yueshi king to death, and took his head to make a wine cup. Emperor Wu of Han felt that the opportunity to send someone to contact the Yue clan to deal with the Xiongnu had come! Who to send? A young Lang official named Zhang Qian gladly enlisted, and in 138 BC, Zhang Qian led a Delegation of more than a hundred Western Han Dynasties from Chang'an. Unfortunately, due to bad luck, he was caught by the Xiongnu not long after he left Longxi.
Zhang Qian was detained in the Xiongnu for more than ten years and never forgot his mission. In 129 BC, Zhang Qian and his retinue took advantage of the Huns' lack of attention, escaped from the Xiongnu jurisdiction and made a arduous trek to Dawan.
With the help of King Dawan, Zhang Qian and the others arrived at the Great Moon Clan via Kangju. But at this time, no one in the Ōtsuki Clan wanted to take revenge! Zhang Qian and his party stayed for more than a year, and in the middle of it, they also arrived in Bactria and saw that there was no hope of uniting the Yue clan, so they planned to avoid the Xiongnu and return to Han from the QiangZhong Province.
Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions, and although he did not complete the mission of uniting with the Yue Clan, he brought back information on the terroirs of the countries in the Western Regions. Since then, the Western Han Dynasty has opened up the road of communication between the Central Plains and the Western Regions through a series of military operations. Zhang Qian's ice-breaking trip for the first time brought the Central Plains and the Western Regions into direct contact. History refers to Zhang Qian's feat of crossing the western region as "Zhang Qian's chiseling of the air", which seems to have opened a door for China to the West, and the Eastern and Western worlds have been connected by this transportation line that later became known as the "Silk Road".