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#SilkRoad #JadeGate #Tripitaka #Sogd #WorldHistory The Silk Road was not an open trade route where the East and West traveled freely, but rather a path blocked by gateways erected by nations. The names of these gateways are Yumenguan and Yangguan, where 'guan' (關) means 'barrier' or 'bolt.' Xuanzang, the monk known as Tripitaka in *Journey to the West*, was ultimately unable to obtain a pass from Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and in 629, he secretly crossed those gates at night. In 111 BC, Emperor Wu of Han erected two gates outside Dunhuang. Since the north was a desert and the south was the snow-capped Qilian Mountains, there was only one passage leading west; the nation simply needed to install a gate between them. Seven hundred years later, in 629, a monk who had been denied a pass crossed those gates at night. Li Chang, an official of Guozhou, tore up the arrest warrant on the spot, and Wang Shang, a captain at the first beacon tower outside Yumen Pass, packed water and food and sent him westward. The man who left with two eyes closed returned in 645, 17 years later; the countries he had recorded numbered 138. On the same path, Sogdian merchants crossed the desert with four men and ten beasts, and the silk they left before the gate was not goods to be sold, but money to pay for them. The son of a foreigner who entered through that gate and received a surname grew up and raised an army in 755; the kingdom lost the Western Regions in 790, expelled four religions that had entered through that gate all at once in 845, and came to an end in 907. It was faster after it closed. We follow to the very end, within 44 minutes, to see who crossed the bolts the kingdom had set in motion and how. ⏱️ Timelapse 0:00 The Silk Road, the Image We Know 1:50 Passes — Yumenguan and Yangguan, There Were Gates on That Road 6:25 629, Monk Xuanzang Who Crossed the Border at Night 9:30 Li Chang and Wang Xiang — Two Eyes Closed 13:43 People Who Had No Country to Cross, Sogdian Merchants 16:04 A Caravan Consisted of 4 People 18:17 Silk Was Not a Commodity, but Money 20:34 The City Inside the Bolt, Chang'an, the Capital of the Tang Dynasty 22:12 The Locked City Was the Most Open City 24:37 Silla Youth Hyecho and Memoirs of a Journey to Five Indian Kingdoms 26:12 The Son of One Who Crossed Over, An Lushan 26:57 The Surname An Means Bukhara 30:09 We Also Crossed That Bolt — Afrasiab Murals 32:18 Jang Bogo and Cheonghaejin 34:23 755, An Lushan Raises an Army 35:37 Paper Was Moved by Merchants, Not Fights 36:41 8 Years of Rebellion — The Nation Cannot Count Its People 38:08 Closing the Door — 790, Losing the Western Regions 38:45 The Huichang Suppression of Buddhism — Four Religions at Once 39:58 The End of What Xuanzang Brought 41:37 907, The Nation Ends 42:27 Where Has That Bolt Gone Now — The Whereabouts of Sogdians ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 History Log — A channel introducing records of historical events and the lives of historical figures 🔔 Subscribing and liking are a great help in producing the next video! Thank you for watching. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━