中国历史上第一个有名可稽之到达非洲的中国人是唐代的文士杜环,他所撰写的《经行记》记载了其亲历所见八世纪中叶前后中亚、西亚、北非各国的概貌。杜环(又作‘杜还’、‘杜瓖’)为京兆(今陕西西安)人,生卒年不详,是著名学者兼政治家杜佑的族侄。唐玄宗天宝十年(75),杜环以随军书记官的身份随镇西节度使高仙芝西征,在怛逻斯城 The first known Chinese to arrive in Africa in the history of China was Duhuan, a scholar of the Tang Dynasty. His book “Tripitaka” chronicles the profile of Central Asia, West Asia and North Africa before and after the mid-eightteenth century . Du ring (also as’ Du also ’Du’) for the Beijing trillion (now Shaanxi Xi’an) people, birth and death unknown, is a well-known scholar and politician Du You’s nephew. Tang Xuanzong Tianbao ten years (75), Du ring to the identity of the war registrar with the West Junction West Xianxian Gao Xian, in the city of God