草原丝绸之路形成的区位优势及其在北方民族交往交流交融中的贡献

Position Advantage of Grasslands Silk Road,and Contributions to Exchanges,Interactions,and Integration between Northern Ethnic Groups

草原丝绸之路地处北纬40至50度之间的狭长自然地带,由高山草原和荒漠草原组成,呈现出草原生态环境,便于东西方向的交通,向西通向中亚、西亚和欧洲,向南通往中国的内地,向北连接西伯利亚和贝加尔地区,形成东西向和南北向的网状线路,与其他丝路和廊道相比具有自然生态环境和人文传统背景的区位优势。随着北方民族的西迁和南移,促进东西方和南北方人群间的交往交流交融,带动了政治相融、商贸往来、民族交融、文化交流,彰显出草原丝绸之路在沟通世界文明交流互鉴和建设中华民族现代文明中的重大贡献。

Grasslands Silk Road is located at a long strip of natural land between 40 and 50 degrees north;it comprises alpine steppe and desert steppe and shows ecological characteristics of grassland,which facilitates transportation from west to east-to west it leads to Central Asia,West Asia,and Europe,to south the heartland of China,and to the north Siberia and Baikal-which forms a network of roads from north to south,from west to east.Compared to other parts of the Silk Roads and corridors,it is endowed with several position advantages,including natural and ecological environment,and humanistic contexts of tradition.As ethnic groups from the north migrating to the east and the south,the grasslands Silk Road facilitated exchanges,interactions,and integration of population from east and west,north and south,promoted political integration,merchandise communication,ethnic interactions,and cultural exchanges,exemplifying its contributions to cultural exchanges worldwide and to the building of a modernized Chinese civilization.