What is the route of the ancient tea-horse road?

1, Shaanxi-Gansu Tea-Horse Ancient Road, from Shaanxi to Gansu, is the main road for Chinese mainland tea to go westward and exchange horses. It was one of the main routes of the ancient Silk Road.

2. The ancient tea-horse road in Shaanxi, Kangzang (the ancient road) began in the Han Dynasty and was formed by the exchanges between Shaanxi merchants and tea-horses in the ancient southwest frontier.

3. Yunnan-Tibet tea-horse ancient road. It was formed in the late 6th century, starting from Yiwu and Pu 'er in Xishuangbanna, the main tea producing area in Yunnan, passing through Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Lijiang City and Shangri-La, entering Tibet and reaching Lhasa. Some are also re-exported from Tibet to India and Nepal.

4. The Sichuan-Tibet Tea Horse Road is a part of the Shaanxi-Kangcha Horse Road. It starts from Ya 'an in the east, the tea-producing area in Yazhou, passes through Arrow Furnace (now Kangding), reaches Lhasa in Tibet in the west, and finally reaches Bhutan, Nepal and India. With a total length of nearly 4,000 kilometers, it is an indispensable bridge and link between ancient Tibet and the mainland.

Information development of Chama ancient road

The concept of "ancient tea-horse road" was put forward in the early 1990s. At present, Mu, director of the Tea-Horse Ancient Road Cultural Center of Yunnan University, and Chen Baoya, a professor of Chinese Department in Peking University, and other six people, after more than three months of on-the-spot investigation, wrote a book "Exploring the Triangle Culture of Yunnan, Tibet and Sichuan" in 1990.

This book holds that Yunnan is the origin of tea in the world. The spread and trade routes of tea from Yunnan were first recorded in Bashu area, and then went to the east, west, north and south, forming the tea layout in the world today.

It runs through the entire Hengduan Mountains, across many provinces and regions in western China, connecting more than 30 ethnic groups and more than 80 million people, connecting the Silk Road in the north and the Porcelain Road in the south, and spreading to further ethnic groups and regions in the world. The author points out that when China transported tea, porcelain and silk to the world, it formed the ancient tea-horse road in the south, the silk road in the north and the porcelain road on the sea.

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