关键词: 东方外交, 丝绸之路, 社会进步, 历史启示

Abstract: Oriental countries have enjoyed a long history of substantial foreign exchanges conducted in diverse and complicated forms, accumulating abundant beneficial experience in the course.Spanning over several centuries, the Silk Road is not only an important element of oriental history, but that of human civilization.Human wisdom as well as positive and negative experience have been condensed along the Silk Road, which boasts a very early start and expansive geographical reach.It is from the historical experience that social development can draw progressive force.As multi-directional paths and bonds linking the East and West, the Silk Road extends to the future to contribute to the progress of human civilization.That studying on the Silk Road from the dimension of the oriental diplomatic history, is a specific action to deepen the Silk Road study.

Key words: oriental diplomacy, the Silk Road, social development, historical revelation