汉唐间吐鲁番地区的蚕丝生产与贸易

Raw Silk Production and Trades On Turpan from Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty

蚕丝贸易是丝绸贸易的一个组成部分。在中古时期西北地区普遍植桑养蚕的背景下，吐鲁番地区的蚕丝业得到了充分发展。当地官府在蚕丝贸易所获巨额利润的刺激下，积极推动蚕丝生产，将百姓手中的蚕丝聚为官有，成为丝绸之路蚕丝贸易中的重要供应商。考虑拜占廷等国对丝绸特别是蚕丝的大量需求，吐鲁番所产蚕丝大部分经丝路商人之手，向西贩运。中古时期的吐鲁番成为了中国古代丝绸输出的一个窗口。

Raw silk trades were important part of the whole silk trade. Silk industry of Turpan had the development opportunities under the background of planting mulberry trees and breeding silkworms generally in Northwestern China. For the persuit of huge profits, local government greatly promoted the raw silk productions, and the government possessed most of raw silk of local market. Eventually the government of Turpan became one of the largest in Silk Trade. Most of raw silk productions tansported along the Silk Road Turpan became one of the silk export bases of China in the early Middle suppliers of raw silk to Byzantine Empire Ages.