Uighur And Silk Road Civilization

Uighur is the history of active in northern China's ancient ethnic minorities,but also today Uygur and Yugur's common ancestor.Its early in the Mongolian plateau area,is a relatively backward culture of the nomadic people;"Anshi chaos" outbreak,prompted the "Uighur Road" opened,and Uighur development and growth,such as its"Uighur Road" an endless stream of absorption from the Tang Dynasty As well as the culture of Central Asia and West Asia.It can be said that the road not only to maintain the relationship between the Tang and the Western Regions,but also for the development of Uighur civilization provides an opportunity,such as Sogdian civilization,Tang civilization through this road and spread in the Uighur.840 years,Uighur Khanate was defeated by the song,tribal relocation,a south fled into the territory of the Tang Dynasty,fruitless and end.The other three moved west,a cast Hexi Corridor,a west west of Xinjiang,and one to the Central Asia Chu River area.Hexi Corridor and Xinjiang are located in the Silk Road throat,so moved to the two places of the Uighur nature and the Silk Road has also been inextricably linked.Before the West moved to the West,the Hexi Western Regions has formed a more mature production,supply,marketing system,the tradition of the West moved to the Uighur inherited.Uighur in the business aspects of carrying forward the old trade system,and the surrounding ethnic trade is more extensive,close,such as the Central Plains dynasty,Jurchen,Khitan,Xixia,Tibet and even far from Persia,Daqin,India,have business contacts;In culture,the Uighur,on the basis of the Silk Road,carries the historical task of cultural exchanges between the East and the West on a larger scale.Uighur on the one hand the integration of the absorption of the Central Plains Han culture,but also learning Tubo,Indian culture,as well as the Western Persian,Greek culture;shows its Heiner rivers of momentum,learning the pattern of the West.As a result,later the Western Xia,Mongolia have at the beginning of the founding of the Uighur service in the contemporary.The Uighurs from the Song Dynasty until the Yuan Dynasty,has also been playing to the northwest of the various ethnic groups to introduce the role of Chinese culture;such as the history of the rule of ethnic minorities,Khitan,Jurchen,Tangut,Mongolia,etc.can successfully accept the Han culture,Open the connection to the Uighurs.