摘要
从中学教材到大学课本,我的历史教科书中关于“丝绸之路”的记载都是从长安经河西走廊到西亚再辗转到欧洲的这么一条经典而充满传奇色彩的路.我是70年代后期读完中,80年代中期念大学的.问题的关键是,我还是肤浅到对我所处的城市即历史文化名城成都竟是另一条同样充满传奇、布满故事的“丝绸之路”的起点浑然不知的程度.即使那时的历史书中实际上已经对此有所提及了,但由于教材中对北丝路的重点渲染,加上当时日本有位叫喜多郎的音乐大师大做北丝路的音乐,使我还是过分固执地浸淫于敦煌的飞天美女、楼兰公主的哀怨及西亚驼铃、大漠孤烟的诗情画意之中.
Chengdu used to be the start of the "Southwest Silk Road", an international passageway of economy and culture. This passage extanded, passing through Burma and India via Yunan Province of China crossing the Hengduan Mountains, as far as to the middle Asian and European countries. Zhang Qian, an official in the Han Dynasty once witnessed the clothing and stick made in Chengdu on his way to the middle Asian area more than one thousand years ago. A large number of shell money have been unearthed today from the Sanxingdui Relics site in Guanghan City, close to Chengdu. These shells were identified by the experts to be living in the warm sea water near India and Burma. So the southwest silk road was out of question an international commercial passage which was opened more than 3,000 years ago.
