元代驿站、客馆的建设及经济文化交流

The Construction of Posts and Guest Houses and Their Impact on the Economic and Cultural Exchange in the Yuan Dynasty

元代的驿站交通非常发达,在中外使臣往来、经济文化交流、丝绸之路畅通等方面起到了重要作用。元代对馆驿的建设也比以往各个朝代更为重视。会同馆不仅是接待外国使臣的中央客馆,同时,也是诸国使臣、商人进行官方贸易的场所。元代海上、陆路丝绸之路非常畅通,元代驿站、客馆的建设使国内驿站交通网与陆海丝绸之路相连接,有效地推动了元代与中亚、西亚、欧洲,以及东亚世界之间的经济文化交流。

Yuan Dynasty had a developed posts traffic,which played a very important role in the economic and cultural exchange and the contacts of envoys between Yuan Dynasty and foreign countries,as well as ensuring the Silk Road unimpeded.And Yuan Dynasty also paid more attention to the construction of posts and guest houses than the other dynasties.Huitongguan会同馆 was not a central guest house for serving the foreign envoys,but also a place for the trade between envoys and merchants from various countries and areas.In addition,the continental and maritime Silk Road in the Yuan Dynasty were very unimpeded and developed.The construction of the posts and guest houses linked the posts transport network with the continental and maritime Silk Road,which pushed forward the economic and cultural exchange between the Yuan Dynasty and the Central Asia,West Asia,Europe and East Asia.