精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上第一天China is the homeof silk. Mulberry planting, sericulture, silk reeling and thickening are allgreat inventions of the ancient Chinese. As early as the Shang and ZhouDynasties (1600BC-256BC), the Chinese peoples silk-weaving techniques hadreached an extremely high level. During the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-25AD),Zhang Qian, an outstanding diplomat, travelled around central Asia andconnected China with the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, opening up a newera of Sino-fo