库车的风韵

<正>The oasis at Kucha was also known as Qiuci in ancient days when it was a prosperous point on the Silk Route and one of the"Thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions."It derived its name from the reference to"crossroads"or thoroughfare in Turkic.Because animal husbandry,agriculture and metallurgy were in large-scale production by the time of the late Warring States period,and because the east-west trade made Quici a booming settlement,it