People's Network Henan Window News River. Com- Today's Anbao-Yubei Edition reported that 2 100 years ago, a golden corridor was opened across Asia and Europe, connecting East and West. This is the world-famous mysterious Silk Road. However, where the Silk Road started in those days has always been the focus of people's attention. After Luoyang was identified as the starting point of the eastern end of the Silk Road in April this year, Anyang, the ancient historical capital, also gave up its silence and stood up for its position on the Silk Road.
Yesterday, a delegation 10 of the research group on the overall planning of the Silk Road Tourist Area of China National Tourism Administration arrived in Anyang, the ancient capital, under the leadership of Zuo Li, vice president of Beijing Dingfeng Yeats Research Institute, after their inspection in yue fei memorial and Youli City in Tangyin. He also had a discussion with Yang, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Anyang Municipal People's Congress, Wang Jianbang, deputy secretary-general of the municipal government, director of the Municipal Tourism Bureau, and cultural experts from Yinshang on the overall planning of the Silk Road tourist area.
At the symposium, Guo Xudong, executive director and deputy secretary-general of China Yinshang Culture Research Association and professor of anyang normal University, first spoke and questioned the determination of the starting point of the eastern end of the Silk Road. He pointed out that more than 300 of the 755 jade articles unearthed from the tomb of a good woman at the site of the ancestral temple in the Palace of Yin Ruins were Hetian jade, which proved that Xinjiang and Anyang had trade contacts during the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
Subsequently, six experts, including Dr. Yue Hongbin, vice captain of Anyang Archaeological Team, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Du Jiuming, director of the site management office of Yinxu Palace and Temple in Anyang, listed horse bones, skulls with Middle Eastern characteristics, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions with silkworm cocoons. And proved to the experts of the research group that there was a "Jade Road" across China as early as 3000 years ago. It is this "Jade Road" that is the predecessor and preparation of the Silk Road and inspired the "Silk Road" that rose more than 200 years later. Therefore, the starting point of the Oriental Silk Road should be Anyang, the ancient capital of Yin and Shang Dynasties.