How about the Ancient Southwest Silk Road in Baoshan City? Is there any fun place?

There are three Silk Roads in China - the land Silk Road in the northwest, the maritime Silk Road in the south and the land Silk Road in the southwest. The Silk Road in the southwest was developed earliest, in the fourth century BC. Open. This Silk Road was called "Shu Shendu Road" in the Han Dynasty. Shu is Sichuan, and Shendu is the ancient name of India. It refers to the trade route starting from Sichuan, passing through Yunnan, Myanmar, and ending in India. The relics of the "Ancient Southwest Silk Road" in western Yunnan are mainly located in Shuizhai and Guanpo of Baoshan City and Bonan Mountain on the level of Dali Prefecture.

According to historical records, in 122 BC, Zhang Qian was sent as an envoy to the Western Regions and saw Sichuan Shu cloth and Qiong bamboo canes imported from India. Zhang Qian returned to the court and reported what he saw and heard to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu was determined to open up the official road from the southwest to India at all costs, so he made Zhang Qian the Marquis of Bowang and ordered him to make Shu County (the seat of Chengdu) and Yu County (the administrative center). Located southwest of Yibin) as a stronghold, he sent four secret envoys to separately explore the road to India, but they were blocked by the southwest ethnic minorities and failed. Emperor Wu also recruited soldiers from the interior and raised troops to attack the Southwest Yi, Yelang, Dian and other countries and many tribes. After more than ten years, only the road from Chengdu to the Erhai area was opened. Official envoys could not go beyond the area from Dali to Baoshan, and they could only trade indirectly with Indian merchants through various tribes as intermediaries. In the twelfth year of Emperor Yongping of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 69), the Ailao people surrendered. The Eastern Han Dynasty "began to connect Bonan Mountain and cross the Lancang River". The Yunnan-Myanmar Passage was finally opened, and there was a relationship with the Shan people in Myanmar. Economic and cultural exchanges entered India through Myanmar. The "national road leading to Shu" that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty assiduously pursued was unobstructed. 00 The Southwest Silk Road starts from Sichuan and takes Wuequao Road in the southeast and Lingguan Road in the southwest. Finally, it converges in Dali, and then goes west from Dali, passing through Yangbi County and entering the Bonan Mountains. Bonan is the name of the county that has been used since the 1st century AD, and its administrative seat is in today's Yongping County. This mountain road was dug by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty around 105 BC (it was called Bonan Mountain Road at the time). The ancient road crosses the Lancang River to the west and enters the Baoshan area. Baoshan was the seat of Yongchang County and Yongchang Prefecture in ancient times, and was also the main area through which this Silk Road passed. Therefore, "Yongchang Road" is the name of this ancient road.

Through the "Ancient Southwest Silk Road", China's silk, Shu cloth, bamboo sticks, handicrafts, ironware, etc. were continuously exported, and foreign colored glaze, gems, jade, pearls, etc. were also exported. enter. In the Tang Dynasty, this silk road became more prosperous and enduring. But later, due to the discovery and opening up of new roads, this ancient road gradually became sparsely populated. As the stars change, the sun and the moon alternate, most of the ancient Southwest Silk Road has been submerged in the wind and rain of time, but some dangerous passes, mules and horses' hoofprints, and poetry couplets still leave deep historical marks. Road sections such as Shuizhai and Guanzhuang in Baoshan were all built using artificial rock drilling and are still well preserved. The Shuizhai section is about 10 kilometers long from the Lancang River to Changwan. It originally had Pingpopu, Shandapu, Shuizhaipu and other postal stations. The remaining small street in Pingpopu is 3 meters wide and 50 meters long. There are street gates and other ruins at both ends. From Luoyang Mountain in the west of Pingpo to Shuizhai, the three to four kilometers long section of the mountainside with a large stone ridge was dug out of the cliff. The path is winding and steep, with more than 500 steps like a ladder to the sky. It was called "Tiyun Road" in history. There are still numerous hoof prints of mules and horses on the stone steps, the deepest ones reaching 13 centimeters.

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