The best time to play on the ancient tea-horse road

The best time for the ancient tea-horse road: the place near Bangda airport in Qamdo area can be visited all year round. Because other places are located in alpine valleys, 165438+ 10 to March of the following year are mostly closed by heavy snow, and there are many mudslides and landslides in the rainy season in July and August, so May, June and 365438+ 10 are the golden seasons for traveling to Changdu.

The ancient tea-horse road is actually a group of roads, which can be called one in terms of its direction. In fact, there are many local routes, just like the main veins and tributaries of rivers. The main vein is formed by two ancient roads, namely Sichuan-Tibet Road and Yunnan-Tibet Road. The Sichuan-Tibet ancient road starts from Ya 'an, Sichuan, passes through Kangding and Batang to Changdu, and the other passes through Kangding, Ganzi and Dege to Changdu. The ancient Yunnan-Tibet road starts from Simao, the origin of Yunnan Pu 'er tea, enters northwest Tibet through Dali and Lijiang, and then reaches Changdu through Zuogong. From the west of Changdu, the Sichuan-Tibet ancient road and the Yunnan-Tibet ancient road are integrated, starting from Changdu and passing through Luolong, Kerry and Gongbujiang to Lhasa.

However, Lhasa is neither the end nor the end. In a broader sense, the ancient tea-horse road will continue to extend westward. Depart from Lhasa, pass through Gyangze and Shigatse, and head southwest to Central Asia, West Asia and South Asia. But the goods coming and going on the road are different, tea is no longer the main material, and the same caravan is no longer responsible for transportation. In fact, since ancient times, few people have been able to walk this long-distance ancient road in Wan Li.

The ancient tea-horse road originated from the ancient tea-horse trade, and it can be said that there was trade before the ancient road. Tea-horse trade is a traditional trade exchange between Han and Tibetan nationalities in the history of western China. In the Song Dynasty, Tea and Horse Department, a government agency specializing in tea-horse trade, was established in Sichuan famous mountains and other places. Tea-horse trade prospered the economy and culture of the ancient western regions, and also created the ancient tea-horse road. The ancient tea-horse road is magnificent, but it is a dangerous journey for the caravan that walked on the ancient road that year. The mountains and rivers in the southwest are high, and the water traffic is unimaginable. The mountain road is steep and winding, so it is impossible to drive cars at all. Under such conditions, the caravan became the only suitable mode of transportation, forming a unique scenery on the ancient tea-horse road.

It can be said that the ancient tea-horse road is a road trampled by manpower and horseshoes. From one valley to another, from one village to another, the caravan has made a way to connect all parts of the country and become a link to the southwest. These caravans used to be stops for commodity distribution, which later became towns. Today, Old Town of Lijiang is the best preserved ancient city on the ancient tea-horse road, and is known as the living ancient tea-horse town. In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in order to prevent the Japanese invasion to the east of the Nujiang River, our bridge-guarding engineers decisively blew up the Huitong Bridge, cutting off the only international traffic road at that time-the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway. So in the middle and late period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the transportation on the ancient tea-horse road flourished and became the main international trade road in the southwest rear area.