中国对外贸易的历史源远流长,闻名遐迩的丝绸之路是中西方经济文化交流的主要通道。虽然“丝绸之路”一词迟至19世纪70年代才由德国学者李希霍芬提出,作为研究中国古代通过河西走廊、新疆与中亚、南亚各国交往的学术名词,很快被国际汉学家们广泛使用,其内涵也不断扩展,从西北陆路商路扩展到东南海上商路,并衍生出“海上丝绸之路”、“瓷器之路”、“香料之路”、“茶叶之路”等名词。中国学者在20世纪50年代也开始使用“丝绸 The history of China’s foreign trade goes back to ancient times. The famous Silk Road is the main channel for economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West. Although the term ”Silk Road“ was proposed as late as the 1970s by the German scholar Li Hoovenfon, as an academic term for studying ancient China’s relations with Central Asia and South Asia through the Hexi Corridor, it was quickly adopted by the international Sinologists are widely used, its connotation is also expanding, extending from the Northwest Lu Shangshang Road to the southeast sea Shangluo, and derived from the ”Silk Road“, ”Porcelain Road“, ”Spice Road “,” Tea Road "and other terms. Chinese scholars also started using silk in the 1950s