The Influence Of The Silk Road In China

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The Silk Road was a great channel for merchandise transported along the East and West. In addition, the medium of which forms, artistic styles, ideas and as well as fashion were transported along the Silk Road. Central Asia was the starting point in the departure of stylistic influences on the art of Central Asia. China had a major importance during the Silk Road; not only by trading silk, the most luxurious fabric of all, but China was also able to trade jade. During the Han Dynasty (210 BC – 200 CE), merchants from the west brought jade. Traders were exchanging nephrite jade from the regions of Yarkand and Khotan to China during the 2nd millennium BCE. The nephrite jade mines were relatively close to the lapis lazuli and spinal mines of