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In the modern global information age, the term Silk Road evokes expressions like multiculturalism, crossculturalism, and transnationalism as well as globalization. As the ancient trade route of the Silk Road transported not only merchandise, but more significantly transferred various artistic and cultural products, in today’s global economy, we continue to witness such exchanges. Todays larger variety and quantity of goods and cultural exchanges are made more instantaneously. Tourism, media, and worldwide websites all contribute toward speedy and complex transmission of information. The awareness of the interconnections and interdependence of the world we live in motivates both artists and audiences to seek ways to express and experience the common thread that binds together as well as celebrate individual cultural heritage. The 12,000 kilometer route from eastern China to the Mediterranean coast was given the name Silk Road by a German scholar Baron Ferdinand Von Richthofen only as late
as the 19th century. Languages scripts, ideas, religions, artistic expressions of various kinds travelled with bales of Silk, precious stones and metals & many natural products. This music of 五尔族(weiwuerzu) had an influence on China and Asian regions and is one of the requisite research task to be investigated in the study of the Korean ancient history. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the music of 五尔族(weiwuerzu) in the Chinese Xinjiang region of the Silk Road that had an influence on Korean ancient music as well as Chinese ancient music. There has been the inseparable relationship between song, dance and instrument in
the musical life of the humankind, and the musical instrument is one part forming the musical culture of the nation.