Cultural symbols of Iran in China, Persian alley to Parsian village

The various cities and villages of China, as one of the ancient human civilizations, have many Iranian cultural relics and symbols that reflect the long-standing relations between the two countries and can also create an opportunity to increase cultural and social exchanges.

According to IRNA, the existence of Iranian and Persian cultural symbols and patterns in China, the need to strengthen friendly exchanges between the people of the two countries, expand cultural exchanges and tourism and increase mutual recognition for cooperation between the two countries in various fields such as economy and culture. he does.

The Persian village in Yangzhou, the Persian alley in Ningbo, the Iranian park in Beijing and the mosques of Xi’an as one of the main sites of the Silk Road are among the most important manifestations and cultural symbols of Iran in China. We will pay Parsi and Parsian village.

Persian Alley

If one day you want to go shopping in the second store of Ning Bo City, you may as you enter Jong Shan Dong Lu Street, you will see a historical monument with the words “Persian Alley” written on it; A writing that has faded a little over time, but its beautiful story will never be forgotten.

The 1,300-year-old city of Ningbo is one of the most important cities in East China’s Jiangxi Province and a port from which the Silk Road began for the first time. The port of Zhou Shen is currently the world’s largest port in terms of cargo capacity.

In the history of Ningbo, Parsi Alley has always witnessed the movement of merchants from Iran, the Arab world and West Asia to this city. Archaeological findings show that between 998 and 1003 AD, large numbers of Iranian and Arab merchants came to Ningbo through other seaport ports such as Chuan Zhou and Guan Zhou, thus conducting trade and cultural exchanges with the Chinese people.

Recently, fragments of Iranian peacock blue glaze pottery, mostly from Iran and West Asia, were discovered at the Yong Fei Koo Archaeological Site in Ningbo.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty (907-618) and the Song Dynasty (1279-960), Iranian and Arab merchants traveled extensively to Ning Bo, and many of them decided to settle down and start a family in the city. For this reason, the rulers of that time, Ning Bo, built a building called “Persian Court” in the area where these people lived in the city, and for this reason, this area was named “Persian Alley”.

Until the 1980s, there was not much left in the minds of the Ning Bo people about the Persian Alley, until Professor Chen Yan of Peking University traveled to Ningbo several times to visit the ancient Silk Road artifacts. After much study and comparison of the discovered cultural artifacts, the location of the Persian court and Persian alley in Ningbo was finally determined.

Sara Ahmadi is an Iranian citizen who has lived in Ningbo for 18 years. After getting acquainted with the historical monument “Persian Alley”, he said with great excitement that he did not imagine that there is such a monument in a modern city like Ning Bo, which represents the history of cultural exchanges between Iran and China through the Silk Road.

He said: “Although today there is only one old stone building left from the Persian alley, seeing it along with reading the history of this alley, will make today’s generation better acquainted with the ancient relationship between Iran and China.”

Parsian village is a symbol of Iranian identity in China

One thousand kilometers south of Beijing, on the outskirts of Yangzhou, there is a village that has been Persian in color and smell for more than 600 years, and Iran is well known there, the village of ‘Busi Javan’ or a Persian village.

According to local researches, the reason for naming this village as ‘Parsian Village’ is that a Persian hero living in the area, about 600 years ago, to save the lives and property of the people from the bandits, the villagers in the war against They led and lost their lives in this way. The people named the village ‘Parsian Village’ in memory of this great hero, and the river that carried the body of the hero was also called ‘Bousi River’, meaning the Persian River. Called.

During the Tang Dynasty around 600 AD, the city of Yangzhou was one of Asia’s major international trading ports with an exceptional location, where the Silk Road joined the sea line.

According to research conducted in 600 AD, about five thousand Iranians and Arabs settled for business in this area and the city of ‘Yangzhou’, which was then one of the major trading ports in Asia, and most of the Persians to They traded pearls and other precious stones.

It is generally accepted that Deh Parsi was once a port where Persian ships and Iranian merchants docked via the Silk Road.

Today, the people of this village still have a proverb about someone who shows off and show off his wealth and property to others, which is a sign of the proud past of the Iranian people. In this proverb, they say, ‘Persians play with jewels’.

Iranian merchants lived peacefully with their Chinese neighbors until many natural disasters, including floods, occurred in the region due to heavy rains, leading to poverty, followed by theft and looting of farmers’ property.

Meanwhile, people in the village of Joo Shu Ge in Yangzhou have called on their Iranian neighbors to help them fight the thieves. An Iranian man is said to have guarded the village for a long time until he was killed in a battle with looters. Later, the people of the village took out the body of the killed Iranian man who had been left in the river and buried him with respect and according to the customs of the Persian Muslims.

In 1994, the local government placed a stone inscription in the village to tell the story of the Persians in order to make the two nations friendly. Such symbols reflect the long-standing relations between the two great Asian civilizations, Iran and China. Source: IRNA