What items did the West bring in through the Silk Road?

The first category is luxury goods, especially marine treasures. After all, China was an inland regime in ancient times, and the western civilization along the Mediterranean Sea was undoubtedly a blue ocean civilization, which brought a great impact on our feudal dynasty culture. There is a famous poem Lin Yulang in Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty, including: Hu Ji's fifteen years, drinking alone in spring, and acacia with wide sleeves. The Daqin Pearl behind the ear was the representative of Rome selling luxury goods to China at that time. These treasures, pearls and corals, were priceless in ancient China, but corals took on new meanings after the introduction of Buddhism, so they were loved by dynasty rulers.

Similarly, another commodity exported by China has a history of 100 years in Europe, and some people still call it fluorite cup, that is, ceramic wine glass! Rome knew nothing about porcelain at that time, thinking that it was made of fluorite, that is, noctilucent stone, so it got this good name and a second imported product-glass.

The East and the West come down to ceramic civilization and glass civilization. Our ceramics are heat-resistant, strong and simple, which shows that our precocious civilization was established very early, but it is too perfect to be improved. But glass is fragile, easy to conduct heat, gorgeous and slender, and its advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious. Otherwise it will be eliminated. This is a portrayal of western civilization. Our local glass was produced a long time ago, but it has not been widely used. On the contrary, transparent glass and colored glass in the west have become.

The above is what I know, and I hope it will help you. There is also a trade deficit in the west. Including this, it also includes a large amount of gold in the provinces of the Roman Empire and the gold currency of its successors. With the passage of time, African commodities began to increase, such as ivory, but it was late, Ming and Qing dynasties!