During the tang and song dynasties the chinese commodities such as the handicrafts articles, silk products, ceramics, tea leaves, lacquer wares and etc. Were carried to more than 40 european and other countries and regions along with the maritime silk route starting from quanzhou - the bright city in the oriental country with an ancient civilization via the south china sea, the persian gulf and the red sea. The boundless silk route promoted the trading contacts and cultural interflow between china and other ancient civilization countries of the world such as greece, roman, egypt, persia and india and speeded up the formation of the main marine economic artery connecting to the countries and regions in asia, africa and america, which produced great historical influence that still exists today though it originated from silk trade.
