In-depth interview | 2020 SRW in the eyes of international students in Zhejiang

2020-07-07 08:17:14 source: In Zhejiang, China National Silk Museum


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(2020 Silk Road Week, photo via China National Silk Museum)


As an international cultural event, the 1st SRW has engaged many foreign students and friends who currently study in Zhejiang to come and jointly celebrate the event. 


This time, we are honored to have invited three international students based in Zhejiang to share their opinions and attitudes towards the Silk Roads and the 1st Silk Road Week.

 

Interviewees

Hangeldiyeva Nazik, Turkmen

Rahman Mahfuz Bin, Bangladeshi

Khai Ly Do, Vietnamese

 

In Zhejiang: Where did you first come across the Silk Roads civilizations?  

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: In my school days, in the history class, we took a lesson about the ancient silk road and I learned a lot about it because our MERV city (nowadays, it is called Mary city) was considered as the heart of silk road, and also it was a major destination along Silk Road trade routes. I got to know about this aspect. How do I remember, the Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: After came in China I had a course in my university about Chinese culture so that was the first time I became familiar about the silk roads civilizations, as well as after attended the SRW exhibition my concept become more manifest about the silk journey and the collection that China has kept for generations.

 

Khai Ly Do: I know about Silk Road since working at Hoi An Silk Group (Vietnam), in charge of international communication, silk museum development project, and silk textile product quality control. Besides, I had the opportunity to attend several academic conferences, business seminars, and international exhibitions of silk textiles in Vietnam, China, and Thailand.


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(Poem reading by international students)

 

In Zhejiang: What are your attitudes towards the significance of Silk Roads to the world human civilization in terms of transportation, cultural exchange, economic booming, and international relations?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: The Silk Road had started a political and economic dialogue between the East and the West. The trade of Chinese silk and other productions in return for cotton horses etc... connected various civilizations, persisted over centuries, and was sustained by a system of commercial settlements, trade cities which makes it possibly the longest cultural route in the history of humanity. 


The Silk Roads produced dazzling manifestations of global significance in the spheres of economy, society, culture, and the environment. It acted as a crossroads for many different cultures and ended up influencing each other in some way. The Silk road’s Countries not only had benefited from production but also had exchanged in subjects of culture, economics, religion, manufacturing, and medicine.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: The Silk Roads' greatest impact on human development was without question the way of life, religions, and innovations that went along them. Trade and commerce also arose, and the Silk Routes became an increasingly important part of economic and cultural life. The best effect of the Silk Road was that while it allowed luxury goods like silk, porcelain, and silver to travel from one end of the Silk Road to the other, culture and other information were also exchanged. The Silk Road was important because it helped to generate trade and commerce between a number of different kingdoms and empires. This helped for ideas, culture, inventions, and unique products to spread across much of the settled world.

 

Khai Ly Do: I recognize that the Silk Road is a very important and famous artery for exchange between East and West in culture, industry, economics, languages, and religions. And I hereby perceive that the Silk Road found a place in history because of its rich cultural

legacy in written records and artifacts, and because trade and cultural exchange were intertwined.


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(Group photo of international students)

 

In Zhejiang: What do you think about the role of China or specifically, Zhejiang and Hangzhou in the Silk Roads?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: The Silk Road promoted cultural exchange between China and the West and helped spread Chinese inventions. Due to the cultural exchange,  people in China, Persia, India, and Arabia learned a lot of things from The European civilization and integrated the knowledge into their own and vice versa. Particularly if we take Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province, there is the most beautiful and huge The Silk road museum in China.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China. Hangzhou, the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province East China, Known as ‘the House of Silk’. Its location on the East China Sea made Hangzhou a natural center for trade, it played an outstanding role for foreign trade in silk, tea, porcelain, and other commodities as well as take part in great cultural, artistic, and religious exchanges. Hangzhou is one of a number of excellent example cities that acted as ‘hubs’ along the Silk Roads. 

 

Khai Ly Do: The history of silk culture and industry has prolonged for thousands of years in China. Nowadays, China is the leading country in the silk textile industry that take an important role in the world silk road. Especially, Hangzhou is a historical and civilized city with rich natural resources, talented people, prosperity, and admirable development of silk culture and industry. Zhejiang and Hangzhou are the connecting places with thousands of silk textile enterprises, China National Silk Museum, traditional silk town, and the yearly meetings of the International Silk Union also take place in this city.

 

In Zhejiang: To what extent do you think the Silk Roads help you understand the Chinese culture better?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: As I am interested in art, architecture and art were exchanged over the countries via this road. So, I believe, the influence of Chinese culture has in each culture that it’s related via the Silk road.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: The Silk Road helped unravel the mystery of ancient China. The Silk Road did not only promote commodity exchange but also culture. The history of Silk roads is linked with Chinese dynasties, emperors & different routes of china, so it helps to better understand the civilization of Ancient China. Silk roads helped to establish the great influence of Chinese culture and Chinese history in the world, especially the Han Dynasty culture.  

 

Khai Ly Do: The Silk Road helps me understand about Chinese culture, for example, the absorbance of new languages, the exchange in religion (the introduction of Buddhism and Christianity).

 

In Zhejiang: Please use three words to summarize your general feelings about the Silk Roads civilization.

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: It will be a cultural exchange, relations, and benefits from import/export.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: Mutually combined progress

 

Khai Ly Do: Silk is beauty. Silk is the value. Silk is our future.


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(The opening ceremony of 2020 Silk Road Week, photo via China National Silk Museum)

 

In Zhejiang: What impresses you the most during the SRW?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: The idea of getting to know more about relationships between East and West, making these relationships better and stronger.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: I would like to thank my University in arrangements for this wonderful opportunity that I have experienced. It was really an amazing experience that I will carry for the rest of my life. I was amazed to see such old historical collections here in Zhejiang. The documentary, exhibitions & the cultural dance was really marvelous and eye-catching. Being a part of it had given me the honor to spread this information to more people so that we can create a beautiful communication with China to build a great future ahead.

 

Khai Ly Do: I was impressed by the high concern and appreciation of China for silk culture, this is the very big support for the development and conservation of silk culture and industry. Besides, two exhibitions entitled The Silk Roads: Before and After Richthofen and Mutual Learning on the Silk Roads: Stories of the Silk Road Treasures helped me understand more about the history of the world silk road.

 

In Zhejiang: To what extent do you think the 2020 SRW helps people to approach the Silk Roads civilization?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: One strong incentive is that the trade infrastructure could bolster poorer countries to the south of China, as well as boost global trade. Chinese culture will be more popular and it will help to increase the interest in small countries, which are connected to this Silk road.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: 2020 Silk Road week exhibitions were intended to tell the stories of mutual learning through cultural and historical objects. It assists people to be acquainted with the historical events of Silk Roads civilization. As well as it helps generate new ideas for future collaborations around the globe. Now, the ancient Silk Road has a new and more modern use. As well as being part of the One Belt, One Road initiative, which plans to bring a new “Silk Road” into being from China to Europe for modern trade.

 

Khai Ly Do: During the 2020 SRW, the introduction of the “World Map of Silk Projects” has indicated the efforts and goals to integrate all the resources and knowledge about silk heritages and provided a clear and reliable foundation for people to understand deeply the history of silk development and the exchanges along the Silk Road.

 

In Zhejiang: Which exhibits or pieces of stories on the two exhibitions impress you the most?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: The silk robes and dresses. These pieces attracted my interest, and I assume that some of the patterns on those dresses had similarities with my culture, too.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: The displays were painstakingly chosen from about 20 social and exhibition hall instincts in china. Each arrangement of social relics, just as explicit fields it represents, reflects the exchanges & mutual learning along the route between east and west. Each shows contacted our hearts and present to us the interminable feeling and longing for the silk roads. I was astonished to see such historical materials and archaeological relics from both at home and abroad.

 

Khai Ly Do: I am a Postgraduate student of the major Textile Engineering so, during 2020 SRW, I am very interested in the International Silk Boutique Exhibition, where I could see the silk exhibition of many brands from China, Laos, and Cambodia. The silk culture and high-quality silk products of numerous countries and regions were respectably introduced.



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(Two themed exhibitions during the 2020 Silk Road Week, photo via China National Silk Museum)

 

In Zhejiang: If you were the promotion ambassador of 2020 SRW, how will you promote these two exhibitions as well as the 2020 SRW?

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: If I were the promotion ambassador of 2020 SRW I attempted to make an interpersonal organization with the energetic individuals over the globe and show some drive to spread the information, benefits, and objectives about the Silk Road. Which makes an effect on the people groups mind and they turned out to be progressively inquisitive and intrigued on it. 


Accordingly the subject of the 2020 Silk Road week "The Silk Road: Mutual Learning for Future Collaborations" turned out to be progressively sensible through the help of individuals around the globe. Also attempted to direct the Silk Road week presentations the same number as areas at an equivalent time. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic circumstance, the greater part of the nations is in lockdown so as an option the presentations could be live communicated in the mainstream TV channel as well as the popular networking sites so the individuals can appreciate the shows and get great information about the antiquated history of the Silk Road.

 

Khai Ly Do: If I was the promotion ambassador of 2020 SRW, I would contact the official television and communication agents of my country to announce and promote the information to people. Besides, I will spread the information of 2020 SRW through various channels of international social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn… I will also invite many silk companies and silk culture researchers of my country to visit as well as contribute the documents and materials into the exhibitions.


(Edited by Ye Ke)

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(2020 Silk Road Week, photo via China National Silk Museum)


As an international cultural event, the 1st SRW has engaged many foreign students and friends who currently study in Zhejiang to come and jointly celebrate the event. 


This time, we are honored to have invited three international students based in Zhejiang to share their opinions and attitudes towards the Silk Roads and the 1st Silk Road Week.

 

Interviewees

Hangeldiyeva Nazik, Turkmen

Rahman Mahfuz Bin, Bangladeshi

Khai Ly Do, Vietnamese

 

In Zhejiang: Where did you first come across the Silk Roads civilizations?  

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: In my school days, in the history class, we took a lesson about the ancient silk road and I learned a lot about it because our MERV city (nowadays, it is called Mary city) was considered as the heart of silk road, and also it was a major destination along Silk Road trade routes. I got to know about this aspect. How do I remember, the Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: After came in China I had a course in my university about Chinese culture so that was the first time I became familiar about the silk roads civilizations, as well as after attended the SRW exhibition my concept become more manifest about the silk journey and the collection that China has kept for generations.

 

Khai Ly Do: I know about Silk Road since working at Hoi An Silk Group (Vietnam), in charge of international communication, silk museum development project, and silk textile product quality control. Besides, I had the opportunity to attend several academic conferences, business seminars, and international exhibitions of silk textiles in Vietnam, China, and Thailand.


1.jpg

(Poem reading by international students)

 

In Zhejiang: What are your attitudes towards the significance of Silk Roads to the world human civilization in terms of transportation, cultural exchange, economic booming, and international relations?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: The Silk Road had started a political and economic dialogue between the East and the West. The trade of Chinese silk and other productions in return for cotton horses etc... connected various civilizations, persisted over centuries, and was sustained by a system of commercial settlements, trade cities which makes it possibly the longest cultural route in the history of humanity. 


The Silk Roads produced dazzling manifestations of global significance in the spheres of economy, society, culture, and the environment. It acted as a crossroads for many different cultures and ended up influencing each other in some way. The Silk road’s Countries not only had benefited from production but also had exchanged in subjects of culture, economics, religion, manufacturing, and medicine.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: The Silk Roads' greatest impact on human development was without question the way of life, religions, and innovations that went along them. Trade and commerce also arose, and the Silk Routes became an increasingly important part of economic and cultural life. The best effect of the Silk Road was that while it allowed luxury goods like silk, porcelain, and silver to travel from one end of the Silk Road to the other, culture and other information were also exchanged. The Silk Road was important because it helped to generate trade and commerce between a number of different kingdoms and empires. This helped for ideas, culture, inventions, and unique products to spread across much of the settled world.

 

Khai Ly Do: I recognize that the Silk Road is a very important and famous artery for exchange between East and West in culture, industry, economics, languages, and religions. And I hereby perceive that the Silk Road found a place in history because of its rich cultural

legacy in written records and artifacts, and because trade and cultural exchange were intertwined.


2.jpg

(Group photo of international students)

 

In Zhejiang: What do you think about the role of China or specifically, Zhejiang and Hangzhou in the Silk Roads?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: The Silk Road promoted cultural exchange between China and the West and helped spread Chinese inventions. Due to the cultural exchange,  people in China, Persia, India, and Arabia learned a lot of things from The European civilization and integrated the knowledge into their own and vice versa. Particularly if we take Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province, there is the most beautiful and huge The Silk road museum in China.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China. Hangzhou, the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province East China, Known as ‘the House of Silk’. Its location on the East China Sea made Hangzhou a natural center for trade, it played an outstanding role for foreign trade in silk, tea, porcelain, and other commodities as well as take part in great cultural, artistic, and religious exchanges. Hangzhou is one of a number of excellent example cities that acted as ‘hubs’ along the Silk Roads. 

 

Khai Ly Do: The history of silk culture and industry has prolonged for thousands of years in China. Nowadays, China is the leading country in the silk textile industry that take an important role in the world silk road. Especially, Hangzhou is a historical and civilized city with rich natural resources, talented people, prosperity, and admirable development of silk culture and industry. Zhejiang and Hangzhou are the connecting places with thousands of silk textile enterprises, China National Silk Museum, traditional silk town, and the yearly meetings of the International Silk Union also take place in this city.

 

In Zhejiang: To what extent do you think the Silk Roads help you understand the Chinese culture better?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: As I am interested in art, architecture and art were exchanged over the countries via this road. So, I believe, the influence of Chinese culture has in each culture that it’s related via the Silk road.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: The Silk Road helped unravel the mystery of ancient China. The Silk Road did not only promote commodity exchange but also culture. The history of Silk roads is linked with Chinese dynasties, emperors & different routes of china, so it helps to better understand the civilization of Ancient China. Silk roads helped to establish the great influence of Chinese culture and Chinese history in the world, especially the Han Dynasty culture.  

 

Khai Ly Do: The Silk Road helps me understand about Chinese culture, for example, the absorbance of new languages, the exchange in religion (the introduction of Buddhism and Christianity).

 

In Zhejiang: Please use three words to summarize your general feelings about the Silk Roads civilization.

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: It will be a cultural exchange, relations, and benefits from import/export.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: Mutually combined progress

 

Khai Ly Do: Silk is beauty. Silk is the value. Silk is our future.


2.jpg

(The opening ceremony of 2020 Silk Road Week, photo via China National Silk Museum)

 

In Zhejiang: What impresses you the most during the SRW?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: The idea of getting to know more about relationships between East and West, making these relationships better and stronger.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: I would like to thank my University in arrangements for this wonderful opportunity that I have experienced. It was really an amazing experience that I will carry for the rest of my life. I was amazed to see such old historical collections here in Zhejiang. The documentary, exhibitions & the cultural dance was really marvelous and eye-catching. Being a part of it had given me the honor to spread this information to more people so that we can create a beautiful communication with China to build a great future ahead.

 

Khai Ly Do: I was impressed by the high concern and appreciation of China for silk culture, this is the very big support for the development and conservation of silk culture and industry. Besides, two exhibitions entitled The Silk Roads: Before and After Richthofen and Mutual Learning on the Silk Roads: Stories of the Silk Road Treasures helped me understand more about the history of the world silk road.

 

In Zhejiang: To what extent do you think the 2020 SRW helps people to approach the Silk Roads civilization?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: One strong incentive is that the trade infrastructure could bolster poorer countries to the south of China, as well as boost global trade. Chinese culture will be more popular and it will help to increase the interest in small countries, which are connected to this Silk road.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: 2020 Silk Road week exhibitions were intended to tell the stories of mutual learning through cultural and historical objects. It assists people to be acquainted with the historical events of Silk Roads civilization. As well as it helps generate new ideas for future collaborations around the globe. Now, the ancient Silk Road has a new and more modern use. As well as being part of the One Belt, One Road initiative, which plans to bring a new “Silk Road” into being from China to Europe for modern trade.

 

Khai Ly Do: During the 2020 SRW, the introduction of the “World Map of Silk Projects” has indicated the efforts and goals to integrate all the resources and knowledge about silk heritages and provided a clear and reliable foundation for people to understand deeply the history of silk development and the exchanges along the Silk Road.

 

In Zhejiang: Which exhibits or pieces of stories on the two exhibitions impress you the most?

 

Hangeldiyeva Nazik: The silk robes and dresses. These pieces attracted my interest, and I assume that some of the patterns on those dresses had similarities with my culture, too.

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: The displays were painstakingly chosen from about 20 social and exhibition hall instincts in china. Each arrangement of social relics, just as explicit fields it represents, reflects the exchanges & mutual learning along the route between east and west. Each shows contacted our hearts and present to us the interminable feeling and longing for the silk roads. I was astonished to see such historical materials and archaeological relics from both at home and abroad.

 

Khai Ly Do: I am a Postgraduate student of the major Textile Engineering so, during 2020 SRW, I am very interested in the International Silk Boutique Exhibition, where I could see the silk exhibition of many brands from China, Laos, and Cambodia. The silk culture and high-quality silk products of numerous countries and regions were respectably introduced.



3.jpg 4.jpg

(Two themed exhibitions during the 2020 Silk Road Week, photo via China National Silk Museum)

 

In Zhejiang: If you were the promotion ambassador of 2020 SRW, how will you promote these two exhibitions as well as the 2020 SRW?

 

Rahman Mahfuz Bin: If I were the promotion ambassador of 2020 SRW I attempted to make an interpersonal organization with the energetic individuals over the globe and show some drive to spread the information, benefits, and objectives about the Silk Road. Which makes an effect on the people groups mind and they turned out to be progressively inquisitive and intrigued on it. 


Accordingly the subject of the 2020 Silk Road week "The Silk Road: Mutual Learning for Future Collaborations" turned out to be progressively sensible through the help of individuals around the globe. Also attempted to direct the Silk Road week presentations the same number as areas at an equivalent time. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic circumstance, the greater part of the nations is in lockdown so as an option the presentations could be live communicated in the mainstream TV channel as well as the popular networking sites so the individuals can appreciate the shows and get great information about the antiquated history of the Silk Road.

 

Khai Ly Do: If I was the promotion ambassador of 2020 SRW, I would contact the official television and communication agents of my country to announce and promote the information to people. Besides, I will spread the information of 2020 SRW through various channels of international social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn… I will also invite many silk companies and silk culture researchers of my country to visit as well as contribute the documents and materials into the exhibitions.


(Edited by Ye Ke)

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