The Silk Road was named by the German geographer, Barn Ferdinand von Richthofen, as the greatest East to West trade route between China, Central Asia and Byzantium. This ancient route between East and West was established during 206 BC to AD 220 in Han Dynasty of China for the political contact with the many Kingdoms of Central Asia. Since then, the Silk Road Gold has also become the trading routes between China and West. In fact the term "Silk Road" has vividly described the complex reality happened along the long way between these two continents politically and economically. 

The Silk Road Gold consists of a network of both land and sea routes. Many caravans and ship had successfully made their ways to Eurasia over the centuries, adapting various function according to different political situation, economic conditions, geographic environments, taste and demand of many different races for particular products, religious belief, their artistic aspects as well as development of technology and skills.

The flourish of Silk route not only had brought the precious price "silk" from China to West also established many other trades between goods. Eastbound caravans brought gold, precious metals and stones, ivory, coral, spices, tea, paper, textiles, and chinaware, while westbound caravans transported furs, ceramics, incense, cinnamon bark and rhubarb as well as bronze weapons. Of course, on the top of the exchanges of merchandises, the different religious belief of Buddhism and Nestorianism had gotten the chance to explore their way to other areas.

Across the multiplicity of trades along the routes, silk was the most prominent products of all because it was used by Chinese as the basic currency to the neighbor countries of the North and West, a means of exchange. The silk also paid off by Chinese government to ensure the SilkRoad Gold pace at the far west borders with nomadic neighbors and to guard against the invaders to destroy their agricultural development. Time by time, the exchanges of supplies had expanded from far East, China through middlemen in Central Asia to the far West, Roman Empire. As the result, the demands of the silk grew rapidly in the West.