Study On Agriculture Folk-custom And Animal Husbandry Communication Of The Silk Road During The Period Of Han And Tang Dynasties

Based on the Han and Tang dynasties history and the connection along the Silk Road, the study expounds its purpose, reviews the research results in domestic and overseas, shows the research thought, methods and innovation of this paper. In the history, the communication between the central areas and the western regions existed. From the Han dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the silk road was consolidating and developing, and has developed different natural environment and economic model, so the agriculture folks’ influence between two regions exist. There are agricultural civilization original and many oasis agriculture along the silk road. Commerce has brought the exchange and accommodation of farming system, animal husbandry production and animal husbandry technology. Diet cultural exchanges also occurred on the silk road. The foreign food was accepted by Chinese people and gradually popular. It was loved by the Chinese people and formed a diet custom. At the same time, the mainland’s diet culture also gradually spread in the western regions. In terms of the life customs, the dress also shows two characteristics. Natural provides the necessary conditions and things for survival for people, so in the central areas farming culture and the western regions culture, it was the primary object that people focus on, and those encouraged people to form the natural god faith. Because of the difference between agricultural and animal husbandry, their animal and plant worship custom was different. The mixture of the dragon and horse was the most important events in the association history between the western region and central areas. The introduction of the horse, increased the true color of totem consciousness in the central areas. The dragon and horse totem is the reflection of influence between central areas farming culture and northwest nomadic culture. The dragon totem reflects the central areas people’s desire to the wind and rain, because their life is given priority with agriculture. The dragon appeared with the flood myth, and formed by the ancients’ defend to nature. Horse totem reflects the nomadic people’s desire to animal prosperity. Horse is the important tool of traffic, transportation, military, so it is certainly that nomadic people adore the horse. Many influence appeared because of the culture communication between the central areas and the western regions.In the Dynasty of Han, farming culture spread to the perimeter zone. At the same time, excellent cultural factors was absorbed in Chinese culture. Diversity, inclusiveness, openness was presented in Chinese culture. And the infiltration between farming culture and nomadic culture made the ancient Chinese civilization’s embedded development.