The Spread Of Culture Along The Silk Road From The 3rd To The 9th Centuries

Historical Cultural Geography is an important part of historical geography,and it is a subject that studies the regional system and its formation and development law of various cultural phenomena in different historical stages.Areas along is a typical region of different cultural exchanges and integration as it'sthe channel of commercial trade,national migration and cultural exchange between Eurasia.As an emerging technology approach in historical geography research.Geographic Information System brings new research ideas and re-orientation of geographic analysis models to historical branches of natural history with its excellent data storage,analysis and display functions.Combining Gis's analysis display function with cultural communication research is also an important development direction in the study of historical cultural geography in the information age.This paper selects Han culture,Gupta Buddhist art and Sasanian culture as the researchobject,and do research in the form of monographic study.Textual research on the introduction time,content and evolution of the above culture in different regions by making use of the archaeological data,historical documents,field investigation and other information.Using GIS technology to analyze and present their propagation stage,central region,and epidemic range on the silkroad.Explore the factors that influence the spread of culture.The first chapter focuses on the spread of the Han culture.From the third century to the end of the sixth century,the distribution of Han cultural relics tended to decrease from southeast to northwest.The status of Guanzhong in the han culture area has declined while Hexi area become one of the center of Han culture in the North.The han regime has greatly reduced its control over the western region,so its cultural influence is limited.Although the coin style of han nationality was used by Qiuci and Gaochang,the circulation of cions which be used by Han regime was significantly lowerthan that in the Han dynasty in the western region.Political immigrants successively formed the prosperity of Han culture in the eastern edge of the Tarim Basin,such as Gaochang,Loulan and Niya,and promoted the spread of silkworm breeding,weaving technology and brocade style in the western part of the silk road.During the Sui and Tang Dynasties,the power of the dynasty enabled the Han culture to spread its power in the middle and western part of the Silk road.Tang dynasty's currency became the international currency in the east and west of the Congling mountains.The round square hole money became the coin pattern of nomadic peoples and many countries in Central Asia.The second chapter selects the Gupta Buddhist art as the research object.In the middle of the fourth century,the mature Gupta Buddhist art spread around the Ganges river.The movement to eliminate the Buddha and the prosperous Gandhara Buddhist art in Central Asia hindered it from taking root in the area.Gupta buddhist art were sent to Yutian and Shule in the Tarim Basin via the Jibin Road,and then passed to Dunhuang,Guzang,Chang'an,Luoyang,Taiyuan and other Buddhist cities.Lv Guang conquered Qiuci,Shi Dao'an and kumarajiva'stranslation activities promoted Gupta Buddhist art spread in Hexi and Guanzhong areas.In the second stage,the decline and fall of the Indian buddhas of the Gupta buddhist art gradually lost its vitality because of the decline of the Indian buddhas.The art center gradually shifted from the Ganges river to China.The introduction of Gupta Buddhist art promoted the change of local Buddhist art style.It has been further spread after the fusion of Gupta Buddhist art and the local culture.The prosperity of the Sui and Tang Dynasties enabled the multi-Buddhist elements of the Han nationality to be retransmitted to the Western and Central Asian regions.Since the middle of the eighth century,Gupta Buddhist art has been gradually internalized,weakened or died out.The spread of the buddhist art along the Silk road is influenced by factors such as the changes of buddhist faith area,self-competitiveness and the natural and historical conditions of the incoming regions.The third chapter discusses the spread of Sassanian Persian culture on the Silk Road.The religion,custom,technology,commodity style and coin culture of Sasanian Persia ware spread to the capital cities and trading towns along the silk road.The Sassan kingdom,Sogdiana,Bactria,and Tarim Basin are some of the central areas of the Sasanian culture.Three to four centuries,Sassanian culture such as coin style and Zoroastrian relying on the rapid spread of dynasty military expansion to along the silk road,and formed the Mesopotamia,Khorasan,Bactria and other cultural centers.The period from the fifth century to the Mid-seventh century was a period of prosperity for the Sassanian culture.At this stage,the economic strength of the Sassanids and the maturity of culture and arts made the numismatic culture,technology,artistic style and religion have extraordinary influence.After the fall of the Sassanian dynasty to the ninth century,Sasanian culture enters another communication stage.A large number of artisans,aristocrats and Zoroastrians migrated to Khorasan,Samarkand and Chang'an which promoted the integration and innovation of sasanian technical and culture with local area.The cultural exchanges along the Silk Road from the third to the ninth century were often led by multiple parties and carried out in a variety of ways.Many factors such as national power and cultural competitiveness determine the strong party of cultural exchanges,but the cultural exchanges are two-way,and the cultural exporter is also being fed back by the input area while spreading itself.Capitals and the commercial cities became a multicultural place along the ancient silk road.The mutual reference and integration between multiple cultures has led to a dramatic transformation within multiple regimes and ethnic cultures along the route and has also contributed to the development of human civilization.