Au cours de la première moitié du premier siècle, on pense que la technologie des vers de soie a atteint l'oasis dominée par les Han-Chinois de Kholan dans le bassin de Tarim – une oasis qui reste aujourd'hui un centre de production de soie. Une princesse chinoise donnée en mariage à un prince Kholan aurait porté les œufs de vers à soie à son nouveau mari caché dans ses cheveux. On pense que les vers à soie et la connaissance de la sériculture ont voyagé de Kholan au sud de l'Inde et à l'ouest à Sassanid Perse au cours du 4ème siècle, tandis que les records recomptent également une expédition japonaise en Chine au même siècle portant quatre si

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• Dimensions: 3372 x 5185 px | 28,5 x 43,9 cm | 11,2 x 17,3 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 25 avril 2013
• Photographe: Pictures From History

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During the first half of the 1st century CE, silk worm technology is thought to have reached the Han-Chinese dominated oasis of Khotan in the Tarim Basin – an oasis that is still a centre of silk production today. A Chinese princess given in marriage to a Khotan prince is said to have carried the eggs of silkworms to her new husband concealed in her hair. It is thought that silkworms and knowledge of sericulture travelled from Khotan south to India and west to Sassanid Persia during the 4th century, while records also recount a Japanese expedition to China in the same century carrying four silk-weaving girls, together with silkworm eggs, back to Japan. Khotan traces its history back at least as far as the 3rd century BCE, when the eldest son of the Indian emperor Asoka is said to have settled here. It was of great importance on the Silk Road, and is claimed to have been the first place outside China to have cultivated silk. It sits astride the Karakash or ‘Black Jade’ and Yurungkash or ‘White Jade’ Rivers, which here conjoin to form the Khotan Darya, and has been famous for its jade for well over two millennia. In times past trade routes crossed the desert to the north all the way to Kuqa, and as recently as 2007 this link has been re-established for the first time in centuries with the opening of a second Desert Highway leading to Aksu, distant some 424km to the north. In 1006 Khotan was conquered by Uighur Muslims from Kashgar, and since that time the city remains a very Uighur place.

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