Khotan History

Khotan was thou called < >, at that times Yudian is one of the vital point economic cultrure communicayion of middle east, travel point of , Tt is also said that in AD 440, a prince of Khotan ( today’s Hetian)–a kingdom on the rim of Taklamakan desert — courted and won a Chinese princess. The princess smuggled out silkworm eggs by hiding them in her voluminous hairpiece. This was scant solace to the silk-hungry people of the West, for Khotan kept the secret tooIt is also said that in AD 440, a prince of Khotan ( today’s Hetian)–a kingdom on the rim of Taklamakan desert — courted and won a Chinese princess. The princess smuggled out silkworm eggs by hiding them in her voluminous hairpiece. This was scant solace to the silk-hungry people of the West, for Khotan kept the secret toois important silk gather and sending point.With the development of on sea training, at fiftenth centry  the silk road graduallly became weak on ground ,Yudian losed it’s prosperous at thous days also and became peaceful.
Now Khotan is one of the tipic islamic religion eare, but in history hetian is one of first entering buddisim religion eare one centry before a.d yindu buddism began to stream into Yudian .The accounts of the two most famous Chinese pilgrims, Faxian and Xuanzang, who passed through Khotan in the 4th and the 7th centuries CE respectively, confirm that Khotan was a Mahayana Buddhist country during this period. Both travellers were impressed by the commitment of the Khotanese rulers and their people to Buddhism. the buddism stream into inner place from Khotan. There is clear connection on source about religion cultrure in china with Khotan eare. the ansister of religion taoism is kunlun mountain , middle part of kunlun mountain is at Khotan , in china’s cultrure kunlun mountain is an ansister the other mountains.