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Precious materials recording the ancient Silk Road discovered at Ningxia
Summary: The manuscript that records information of sites and routeson the ancient Silk Road was discovered in the city of Zhongwei,N ingxia Province, China. I ts discover y fills t hevacancy left by the renowned Juyan Han bamboo slips inrendering the Silk Road, a
The manuscript that records information of sites and routes
on the ancient Silk Road was discovered in the city of Zhongwei,
N ingxia Province, China. I ts discover y fills t he
vacancy left by the renowned Juyan Han bamboo slips in
rendering the Silk Road, and supports the future investigation
of unsolved mysteries about the Silk Road that has long
lost in deserts and oasis.
There is no information left about the book’ s name, author
or publisher. It’ s current title, “A journey from the Shikongsi
Fort to Kucha,” was suggested by its owner, Zhou Xinghua,
according to the manuscript's first line.
According to Zhou Xinghua, former director at the Ningxia
Museum and the one who discovered the Shikongsibu zhi
Kuche chengtu ( “A journey from the Shikongsi Fort to
Kucha” ), the manuscript elaborately recorded 105 post
stations and local sites, including 11 in present-day Ningxia
Province, 50 in Gansu, and 44 in X injiang, within the total
length of seventy hundred and eight li. These post stations
and the route cover both the eastern and the western sec -
tion of the Silk Road within the territory of ancient China.
Zhou considers the discovery of the manuscript fills t he
vacancy left in Yizhi daoli bu ( “Notebook of post stages and
routes” ), which was excavated among the group of Juyan
Han bamboo slips, provides reliable evidence for consolidating
names of post stations along the S ilk Road, and thus
contributes to the promotion and protection of the surviving
heritage of the Silk Road.
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