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A station in Syria as the ancient Silk Road West, boasts the world's two oldest, continuously inhabited city -- Damascus (Damascus) and Aleppo (Aleppo). The South and north of the two ancient city, like a huge historical museum, the life stories in the gravel road, on the wall, in the dome of the bazaar palm the shade of olive trees, continuous interpretation. This is the number of generations for many thousands of years, in this piece of land, through a war, conflict, aggression, hybrid, after integration, derived from more than one race and culture?

That spirit of ancient country, you'll find out, compared with the prior had carry forward the ancientGreeceCulture, Persian culture, ancientRomeCulture, the impact of Islamic culture stretching far. Islam in this time and general ancient country,, is still a present tense verb.

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Layla and Majnun

In all parts of the ancient Silk Road, Layla and Majnun legend in a different culture, according to local custom changes deduction, breaking the regional boundary of language, is so touching.

A company called Naufara teahouse of the ancient city of Damascus, often seats without virtual base, customer including graying beard old man, fashionably dressed young men and women, so I also like to see foreign visitors. The guests drink tea drinking coffee and chatting, some people eat melon seeds, also somebody snoring to smoke hookah.

Various volume mixed teahouse, but have a stentorian voice over it -- from sitting in a corner of the platform of storytellers, locally called him Hakawati, he was holding a thick hardcover, high passion of reading a. Suddenly, he yell, hand a sword, a moment of silence and the audience to win the eyes, and holding tray shuttle in between guests waiter, he accompanied by storytellers with rhythm, sing of the one or two, four and clapping for howling.

Then we all care around the busy, and storytellers to continue reading the local people familiar with Layla and Majnun legend but -- this is Romeo and Juliet Arabia version of the "". Often comes to an exciting place, local customers would applaud loudly echo. The local people to patronize storytellers teahouse is not to listen to the new stage, but to continue to finish the reported several century story, continues to inspire a new passion in familiar words.

Ancient culture

Layla and Majnun's story is said to be based on a true story. In seventh Century, set in Syria of the Umayyad Empire (Umayyad), a man named Qays poet, he love women because of family opposition against his will marry others, tragic poet from self-imposed exile in the desert wilderness, carved a miss in the rocks of the poem, in the civil widely circulated, after the Persian literati adapted into the plot twists and turns of the family dispute love tragedy, known to all.

I was inIndiaFirst heard of this story, it is moved on the big screen bollywood. Later, I traveled to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and other places, there are Layla and Majnun. When I came to the birthplace of the story, sometimes in the storytellers teahouse heard again, my heart suddenly emerged a kind of inexplicable moved. The same story, in a different culture by the local community changes deduction, breaking the regional boundary of language, is so touching.

The silk road race, all goods, cultural stream around swap blend formed a multi-level civilization, run in the same groove. Syria as a station at the western end of the Silk Road, which has the world's two oldest continuously inhabited city -- Damascus (Damascus) and Aleppo (Aleppo), it is growing up in the intersection of various civilizations conflict.