丝绸之路：众望同归

“2020絲绸之路周”，6月19日至24日举行。活动主题为：“丝绸之路：互学互鉴促进未来合作”。由中国丝绸博物馆在杭州主场与浙江省及国内百余家文博机构共同参与，以主题展览、学术活动、线上直播互动等形式进行线下线上联动。

从张骞第一次出使西域的公元前138年算起，到1877年德国地理学家李希霍芬从学术上正式提出丝绸之路的概念，再到2014年联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）正式批准丝绸之路成为全世界公认的文化遗产，“丝绸之路”整整走过了2152年的时间。

这是一条人走出来的路。但是，何为丝绸之路？其中到底有几条路？李希霍芬为什么要提出这条路？本期视点就此作出解读。

An exhibition titled  is scheduled to run from June 19 to August 23， 2020 at China National Silk Museum based in Hangzhou. This is the first heavy-weight show of the Silk Road Week at China National Silk Museum. The show is also an academic study of the history of the Silk Road.

Generally speaking， the Silk Road dates back to 138 BC when Zhang Qian， an envoy of the Han Dynasty （206BC-220AD）， started his westward journey to visit the western region of the Tang Empire. In 1877， Ferdinand von Richthofen coined the phrase Silk Road. In 2014， the Silk Road was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is 2，152 years from 138BC to 2014AD. This was a manmade trade route. But what is the Silk Road exactly？ How many silk trade routes did exist back then？ A group of articles in this issue of Cultural Dialogue gives a general picture of the Silk Road in history.