纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 050传丝公主画版（1）
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050：EPISODE 50 - Silk Princess Painting 传丝公主画版
Silk princess painting (made eighth century AD), from Chinese central Asia
Once upon a time, in the high and far off days of long ago, there was a beautiful princess who lived in the land of silk. One day her father, the emperor, told her she must marry the king of the distant land of jade1. The jade king could not make silk, because the emperor had kept the secret to himself. And so the princess decided2 that she would bring the gift of silk to her new people. She thought of a trick, she hid everything that was needed - the silk worms, the mulberry seeds, everything - in her royal headdress. She knew that her father's guards would not dare to search her as she left for her new home. And that, my Best Beloved, is the story of how Khotan got its silk.
The tale I have just told you - a 'Just So' story of one of the greatest technology thefts of history - is one that is presented to us in paint on a plank3 of wood that's around 1,400 years old. It's known as the 'Legend of the Silk Princess' and it is now in the British Museum. But it was found in a long-deserted city on the fabled4 Silk Road.
"I think the Silk Road, in terms of the movement of goods and ideas, is the 'internet of antiquity5'." (Yo Yo Ma)
"... because it wasn't just silk that travelled, and frankincense, and rhinoceros6 horn, and all these wonderful products which we associate with it, but a much more humble7 but continuous trade - of people locally, trading to people with rather different needs and situations." (Colin Thubron)
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