#silk road

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Fashion in the old city of kashgar, xinjiang, northwestern china, including tajik, uyghur, kazakh, kyrgyz, uzbek, and more. (Photographer 刘星球)

[mapsontheweb]

Pretty neat seeing the silk road overlaid over a modern map

[the-etcetera-archive]

Source: A Sogdian silk samite fragment with horses; Central Asia, seventh to ninth century. Bonhams, 2021.

[along-the-silkroad]

A sancai statuette of Sogdian musicians riding on a Bactrian camel, ca. 723 CE, excavated in the tomb of Xianyu Tinghui, general of Yunhui, in western suburbs of Chang’an (Xi’an), Tang dynasty, Chinese. National Museum of China, Beijing

Sancai (literally “three colours”) is a style of Chinese pottery decoration, most closely associated with the Tang dynasty, that uses lead-based glazes in mainly green, amber/brown, and cream/white tones.

It was a low-temperature earthenware technique, easier and cheaper to produce than porcelain, often used for tomb figures and burial objects around the 7th–8th centuries. While the three main colours gave it its name, additional hues like blue, black, and yellow also appeared, with blue being rarer due to costly imported cobalt.

Sancai pieces included both sculptural figures and small vessels, sometimes assembled from moulded parts. The style is also linked to Luoyang, where many examples were first discovered, and was sometimes nicknamed “egg-and-spinach” for its mottled green, yellow, and white appearance.

[vintagegeekculture]

RIP Kazakh actor Murat Bolatuly Bisembin.

[sinoheritage]

The Tea Horse Road 茶马道 was a sprawling 1,300-year-old network of caravan paths. Stretching over 3,000 kilometers (1860 miles) from the tea-producing regions of Southwest China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou) across the Himalayan plateaus to Tibet, it facilitated a vital historical trade of Chinese tea for Tibetan horses, and carrying silver and goods to Nepal and India. Originating in the Tang Dynasty, it is sometimes called the "Southern Silk Road".

There are numerous surviving archaeological and monumental elements, including trails, bridges, way stations, market towns, palaces, staging posts, shrines and temples along the route.

[baebeylik]

Box and cover. Stylized Arabic inscriptions. Likely made for traveling Islamic merchants along the Silk Road. China, 1506-1521.

The Aga Khan Museum.

[temlan777]

Fellowship traveler