Abstract:Academics believe there are four major silk roads in ancient China. They are “the Northeast Silk Road”, “the Silk Road through Prairies”, “the Southwest Silk Road”, and “the Maritime Silk Road”. Apart from these four silk roads, in order to have more communication and closer economic ties with neighboring countries on the south via waterways, people in ancient China carved roads through mountains and thus opened land routes from Guangxi to Southeast Asia so as to have closer political ties with countries in that region. People opened trading posts and markets on this silk road in mountains. They used this land route to have commercial transaction with countries in Southeast Asia and created unique silk road culture.
玉时阶. 山地丝绸之路:古代中国广西通向东南亚的经贸之路[J]. 《深圳大学学报》(人文社科版), 2016, 33(5): 134-139.
YU Shi-jie. The Mountainous Silk Road: the Trading Route from Guangxi to Southeast Asia in Ancient Times. , 2016, 33(5): 134-139.