“SOGDIANS IN CHINA: A PHENOMENON IN HISTORY AND CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL CHINA”

Vaisova Nodirabegim Avazovna

doi:10.17762/pae.v58i1.1716

Abstract

The basis of the existence of any state, nation, people is language, culture and customs, the expression of which is their own national history, writing, culture. Despite the complex history of the written culture of Sogdian civilization, it played a huge interconnecting and culturally transforming role in the existing communities and made a real significant contribution to the history of international relations of the Sogdian people, which over its long history created its own distinctive writing and its culture. An analysis of the disclosure of writing shows that in the early nomadic states a new cultural and historical foundation began to be created for subsequent development. The problem of the laws of historical development, taking into account local options, cannot be considered fully resolved until the history of the peoples inhabiting ancient Uzbekistan and Central Asia is consecrated. The role played by these peoples in the history of mankind has been enormously noted, so far only in connection with the history of neighboring countries: China in the east, Iran in the south, Byzantium in the west and Turkic kaganate in the north.In the early Middle Ages, micro-oases existed in Central Asia, the inhabitants of which formed distinctive cultures, maintaining close ties with the population of neighboring regions and surrounding nomadic tribes. During this period of its brilliant development, a culture created by the inhabitants of the Zarafshan valley - Sogdians - reached. An integral component of Sogdian culture was the innovation introduced directly or indirectly by Turkic tribes.

Highlights

In the Tang period, representatives of different Iranian-speaking peoples arrived in China, both from faraway Iran (Persians) and neighboring East Turkestan (Khotanians and others), but the Sogdians from Central Asia were the largest and most influential group
Commenting on the geography and routes, we will turn to the activities of the inhabitants of Central Asia, known as Sogdians, who played an important role in bringing Western goods and culture to China
This, apparently, is that part of the inhabitants of the colony in Tsonghuasyan, which dispersed in the second half of the VIII century. in the Chinese villages of the county [15]. In all these studies, the sources and problems of the scientific study of the Sogdian diaspora on the Great Silk Road, its discoveries for science, questions of periodization, the importance of its revival at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, are only partially addressed. In these works the human factor was practically not reflected in the study of the Silk Road, despite the fact that since the second half of the 19th century, researchers and experts from different countries took part in the study of the Great Silk Road

Summary

INTRODUCTION

In the Tang period, representatives of different Iranian-speaking peoples arrived in China, both from faraway Iran (Persians) and neighboring East Turkestan (Khotanians and others), but the Sogdians from Central Asia were the largest and most influential group. The penetration of the Sogdians into Central Asia was caused by the invasion of the Greco-Macedonian army of Alexander the Great in Sogdiana in the 4th century. Sogdians, forced to leave their www.psychologyandeducation.net country, settled mainly along the routes of the Great Silk Road, along which international trade was carried out between the countries of the Far East and West. First of all, they moved to the neighboring oasis states of East Turkestan, from where they continued their advance further north and east. They moved to the neighboring oasis states of East Turkestan, from where they continued their advance further north and east. [1]

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