Sìdà fāmíng tōngguò Sīchóuzhīlù chuándào le xīfāng, gǎibiàn le shìjiè.
The Four Great Inventions reached the West along the Silk Road and changed the world.
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The four are 造纸术 'papermaking', 印刷术 'printing', 火药 'gunpowder' and 指南针 'the compass'. Western scholars first grouped them as four in the 19th century, and the list is now standard in Chinese textbooks.
