The ancient tea-horse road is an ancient traffic route formed by the tea-horse trade between the agricultural areas in the mainland and the nomadic areas in the frontier in China history, which is divided into two roads: Sichuan-Tibet and Yunnan-Tibet.
The ancient tea-horse road, which exists in the southwest of China, is a folk international trade passage with caravan as the main means of transportation, a corridor for ethnic economic and cultural exchanges in the southwest of China, and the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
The ancient tea-horse road originated from the tea-horse exchange in the southwest frontier of ancient times, and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, Ming and Qing Dynasties and the middle and late World War II. The ancient tea-horse road is divided into three roads: Shaanxi-Gansu, Shaanxi-Kangzang and Yunnan-Tibet, connecting Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet, extending to Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and India, and finally to the Red Sea coast of West Asia and West Africa.
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The starting point of the ancient tea-horse road in Yunnan is Dali, the capital of Nanzhao regime in Tang Dynasty. Among them, Dali, Lijiang, Zhongdian and Adunzi are very important tea-horse trade hubs and markets.
The tea in the Yunnan-Tibet line tea-horse trade mainly comes from Pu 'er, Yunnan, and also from Sichuan and other places. The tea-horse trade on the Yunnan-Tibet line has its own characteristics.
Han businessmen in Yunnan mainland transfer tea and other goods to local businessmen or traffickers in Tibet, and buy horses or other livestock, local products and medicinal materials from local businessmen and transport them to Lijiang, Dali and Kunming for sale. Tibetan businessmen in Tibet, Sichuan and Tibet mostly return to Tibet to exchange daily necessities mainly tea. The main means of transportation are mules, horses and yaks.
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