Tea-Horse Road

The ancient Tea-horse Road is a nongovernmental trade channel that existed in the southwest of China taking horse back traders as the main transportation tools as well as a economic and cultural corridor in the southwest China. Tea-horse Road is a very special regional appellation because it has the most spectacular natural scenery in the world and contains the countless cultural heritages.

The ancient Tea-horse Road originates from the tea horse trade in southwest and northwest borderland. It grew up from Tang and Song Dynasties and thrived in Ming and Qing Dynasties. And the most prosperous time was after the World War II. It can be cut into several routes, one is the Sichuan-Tibet route, another is Yunnan-Tibet route.The ancient Tea-horse Road had connected the three provinces and extended to Bhutan, Nepal, India which is so called Yunnan-Vietnam Tea-horse Road that to the coast of Red Sea and West Africa.

The ancient Tea-Horse Road is one of the world's highest trade channel that bears witness profound relationship between the Chinese and other Asian peoples through the tea and horse trade in history. It's a ethnic communication and ethnic fusion road and has already been the main hub for national migration, cultural integration and trading. At the same time, the Tea-Horse Road main way of world culture that had spread the Buddhism to the east. multicultural fusion had produced here. The trade took together with different culture and it is also a religion road. The religious believers were often accompanied by merchants which had brought different beliefs for these regions.

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