In the former, we have related some religions along Silk Road. Glorious Buddhism, original Manichaeism all flourished from Silk Road. Now let us discover the deep mask.

Origin of Judaism along Silk Road

Judaism may have existed in China for as long as two millennia. A stele preserved in the city of Kaifeng in Henan Province suggests that Jews settled there as early as 231 BC, though there is no record of a synagogue until 1163. It is believed that the ancestors of this community migrated along the Silk Road from Central Asia, where a small community still survived in Bukhara. Over the centuries, the Kaifeng Jews became integrated within Chinese society and in particular with the local Chinese Muslim community.

Intermarriage and isolation from both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish communities far to the west led to a loss of religious and ritual customs, as well as social and linguistic tradition. The Kaifeng synagogue collapsed in the mid-19th century, but by this time, it is said, all that survived of Jewish tradition were the injunctions to circumcise sons and to abstain from eating pork. So it is quite probable that last Kaifeng Jews were subsumed in the local Hui Muslim population.

Vigorous Nestorianism along Silk Road

It is thought that Nestorianism penetrated China by way of the Silk Road as early as the 3rd century AD; a metropolitan see was established there by representatives of the Assyrian Church in 411, when Christianity was known as Jingjiao or the Luminous Religion. The Syrian monk Nestorius taught that Christ exists as two persons, the human Jesus and the Son of God Logos. This view was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431, leading to the separation of the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church.

Condemned as heretics in the West, Newstorians Migrated east along the Silk Road, spread their variant of Christianity to Central Asia, China, Mongolia and ultimately Japan. The Nestorian missionary Alopen arrived at Changan in AD 635 and was given a warm welcome by the Tang emperor Taizong. The famous Nestorian stele was erected as Changan in 781AD celebrating the accomplishments of the Assyrian Church in China. Murals from a Nestorian monastery as Khocho in Xinjiang from the 7th century also survive.

Silk Road created the civilization and the colorful religions waiting for research and inheriting. Cherish the culture and cherish history!

As we all know the Silk Road enjoys a far and wide reputation in the world as a famous trade route across Asia and Europe, but the goods is not the only stuff which has been exchanged between the two continents.

Technique Communication along Silk Road
With the opening of the Silk Road, paper products began to appear in the western regions and beyond. It has been found in second Century in the Kroraina relics archaeological papers. Paper has been found in Central Asia, but no evidence to show papermaking industry there. Many people think that the papermaking in the West has brought a great change for Europe and Central Asia, and originally this change is cruel: the Tang Dynasty and the new Abbas Dynasty continued friction forces in central Asia, which had a strong influence on the political pattern in Central Asia, but in the battle of Ross, the Arabs will China prisoners of war along the Silk Road to Samarkand, and these prisoners of war were the Chinese papermaking craftsman. Chinese ancient printing technology is also gradually spread along the Silk Road to the West. In Dunhuang, Turpan and other places, have found a wood plate engraving printing and paper products. This shows that the printing in the Tang Dynasty at least has spread to central asia. During the thirteenth Century, many Europeans travelled along the Silk Road to China, and brought this technology back to Europe. In fifteenth Century, the Europeans Gutenberg printed a paper Bible.

Religion Communication along Silk Road
As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism was introduced into China along Taklimakan desert north and south side of the Silk Road sub channels, full to the western countries. About Buddhism in western regions, the beginning of twenty-first Century there are many argument, but the academic circles at home and abroad firmly believe that Buddhism came along as early as second Century BC, late in the late first Century BC spread to the western regions. In 87 BC, Buddhism was introduced into the western regions of Khotan, 60 BC to 10 years since the holy Buddhist Khotan West or north direction spread to Yecheng, Shache, Kashi, Akesu, Taxkorgan, Kuche, Yan Song and the western the Silk Road, the northeast to Ruoqiang, Qiemo, Milan, Kroraina and other western regions. In addition to Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Nestorianism were also introduced along the Silk Road to China. And then they were spread to Korea, Japan and other Asian countries.

Anyway, the Silk Road is full of mysteries and secrets worth exploring with a visit to China!

In the modern days, there are many religions mixing together forming into different cultures. However, traced back to the Silk Road period, these religions have been appeared. Now, let us have a deep research.

Mysterious Manichaeism along Silk Road

Just hearing this name, most of tourists are not familiar with it. Derived from the dualistic teachings of the Persian prophet mani, who postulated the existence of two natures, lightness and dark, Manichaeism decrees that the universe is the temporary result of an attack from the realm of darkness on the realm of light. Mani proclaimed himself the last in a line of prophets that included Manichaeism, which became the state religion of the Uighur Empire for the following century. The last organize Manichaean communities seem to have died out in southern China in the 16th century. The sacred texts of Manichaeism were originally composed in Syriac Aramaic, but as they spread west were translated into Greek, Coptic and Latin. To the east their history serves well to illustrate the multicultural nature of Silk Road society, as they passed through Iranian, Parthian, Sogdian, Uighur and Chinese translations.

Glorious Buddhism along Silk Road

Buddhism is very familiar for the modern tourists. It developed from the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the future Lord Buddha, who was born around 563 BC, A PRINCE OF THE Shakya clan in the Kapilavastu Kingdom on the Indo-Nepal border lands. Although raised amid the comforts of the royal court, Siddhartha was deeply troubled by the misery and poverty he encountered beyond the palace gates, and embarked on a long quest to identify the cause of suffering. Eventually, at the age of 35, he discovered the Middle Way, a path of moderation that lies between indulgence and mortification, and results in enlightenment. The philosophy that he taught gradually spread across northern India and under the Buddhist emperor Asoka, beyond to Sri Lanka, Burma and Bactria. From Bactria it gradually spread along the Silk Road west to the shores of the Black Sea and Mediterranean, and east to the Tarim Basin and China. Buddhism reached China around the 1st century AD, but extensive contacts date from the 2nd century, with the establishment of the Buddhist Kushan Empire. The earliest Buddhist missionaries to follow the Silk Road to China were Parthian, Sogdian and later Kuquan.

With the development of the society, they got certain spread and public recognize. They are rented as the most holy religion in the public.