Yancai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about a nomadic people of ancient Central Asia. For a contemporaneous city state of the Tarim Basin, sometimes known also as Yanqi, see Karasahr. Countries described in Zhang Qian's report. Visited countries are highlighted in blue. Yancai (Chinese: 奄蔡; pinyin: Yǎncài; Wade–Giles: Yen-ts’ai; lit.: 'Vas..