The Ancient Tea Horse Road Meaning

(1) Introduction to the Ancient Tea Horse Road

Ancient transportation routes. The tea-horse trade is a trading activity carried out using "tea" from the Central Plains and "horses" from border minority areas. As an important means of economic exchanges between inland Han areas and border minority areas, it plays a huge role in communicating economic and cultural connections between people of all ethnic groups. Director Wei Xiaoan of the National Tourism Administration once made a special discussion on the tourism development of the "Ancient Tea Horse Road" and pointed out: "The Ancient Tea Horse Road" is a post road formed by the tea and horse trade in history from northwest Yunnan to southeastern Tibet. On this ancient road It is a collection of the best natural and cultural landscapes in China. After moderate development, it can become a world-class tourist attraction. The tourism development of the Tea Horse Road has also been included in the national "Tenth Five-Year Plan" tourism development plan as one of the contents of the regional linkage development strategy.

From the distant and open Tang Dynasty until the completion of the Yunnan-Tibet and Sichuan-Tibet highways in the 1850s and 1960s, there has always been a little-known road that runs from the east of the Hengduan Mountains in southwest China. Starting from the tea producing areas of Yunnan and Sichuan on the side, using the most primitive mode of transportation, people and horses, it crosses the Hengduan Mountains and major rivers such as the Jinsha River, Lancang River, Nu River, and Yalong River and extends westward, covering China's largest area like a spider web. The two plateaus eventually lead to the South Asian subcontinent south of the Himalayas. With the rise and spread of tea culture and Tibetan Buddhism, and the development of the tea-horse trade, this road has become a veritable ancient tea-horse road.

For more than 1,000 years, the Ancient Tea Horse Road has transported tea from Yunnan and Sichuan to Tibetan areas, and transported special mountain products from the snowy areas to the inland. During the Anti-Japanese War, it became China's only external transportation road. At the same time as civilian transportation, this remote and extremely difficult road has also become a corridor for the spread and exchange of religious culture and the culture of more than 20 ethnic minorities along the way. It is not only an economic and cultural link connecting Han and Tibetan and other ethnic groups, but also a symbol of the extraordinary courage and extraordinary efforts inspired by human beings for survival.

(2) The historical and cultural value of the Tea Horse Road

★The Qamdo area contains three parallel rivers, high mountains and canyons, sacred mountains and holy waters, geothermal hot springs, pastures full of wild flowers, and smoke-filled villages. Tents, as well as ancient Bon religious rituals, Tibetan Buddhist temples and pagodas, ancient cliff carvings, antique giant murals, and colorful customs and other rich natural and cultural tourism resources.

★The Ancient Tea Horse Road is an important clue for natural and cultural tourism in the Qamdo area. Most of the natural wonders, human cultural heritage, traces of ancient ethnic customs and countless and endless lingering stories are scattered. On the Tea Horse Road. It is the accumulation of history, containing traces of people’s activities and persistent yearnings over thousands of years.

★The Ancient Tea Horse Road passes through the ethnic corridor between Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet. It is a place where many ethnic groups thrive and thrive. It is also a big stage for multi-ethnic groups to perform historical tragedies and comedies. It is an inexhaustible cultural treasure that is worth remembering and appreciating.

★ Tourism on the Tea Horse Road is a journey to nature, a journey of harmony between man and nature, a spiritual journey for urbanites, and a journey of adventure and discovery.

★The tourism development of the Tea Horse Road is all-round. We must first improve infrastructure construction, such as transportation and transportation facilities, construction of hotels and restaurants to meet the needs of food and accommodation, electricity, water and safety guarantees. At the same time, Vigorously develop tourism products to promote the development of various undertakings and revitalize the local economy of Qamdo.

(3) The socio-economic value of the Ancient Tea Horse Road

☆The Ancient Tea Horse Road - the most special regional name in the Qamdo area

☆The Ancient Tea Horse Road - The land transportation artery of the Qamdo region

☆The Ancient Tea Horse Road - the golden key to the opening up of the Qamdo region

☆The Ancient Tea Horse Road - the important cornerstone of the development of the Qamdo region

☆The Ancient Tea Horse Road—the lifeblood of the great economic prosperity of the Qamdo region

☆The Ancient Tea Horse Road—the focus of tourism development in the Qamdo region

(4) The Ancient Tea Horse Road Opportunities for tourism development

☆The general trend of vigorous development of domestic and foreign tourism

☆my country's accession to the WTO brings rare opportunities for the development of Qamdo tourism

☆ The development of the western region has brought new opportunities to the development of tourism in Qamdo

(5) Modern Tea Horse Road

☆The construction of kilometers of trunk lines has replaced the function of the "Tea Horse Road" in the past .

☆The traffic pattern of "two horizontal and one vertical" basically forms the modern "Tea Horse Road" in the shape of "Qian".

In the eyes of experts and scholars, the Ancient Tea Horse Road is an ancient trade channel between Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet. Through the transportation of horse caravans, tea from Sichuan and Yunnan can be traded with horses and medicinal materials from Tibet. It is the fifth channel for foreign exchanges in China's history and has important historical value and status.

However, in the eyes of experts, the Ancient Tea Horse Road, which is as important as the "Silk Road", has been silent for many years in the passage of time. With the increasing development of modern transportation means, the Ancient Tea Horse Road has long been replaced by National Highways 214, 317, and 318.

“When the Silk Road attracted world attention, was studied by scholars and experts, and triggered a tourism boom; when the Silk Road was famous all over the world, the Tea Horse Road was neglected. Silently in the deep mountains and dense forests.

"Mu Jihong, an expert who specializes in the study of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, said that the silence of the Ancient Tea Horse Road is inevitable in historical development, but its remoteness, difficulty and danger are also an important reason for its decline. Although it has been silent for many years, the Ancient Tea Horse Road is not "hot" today. Not without its reasons.

“The Ancient Tea Horse Road is a rich historical and cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, which is very attractive to travel enthusiasts. "Mu Jihong analyzed, "Not to mention the history and cultural charm of the ancient road itself, the geographical, scenery, folk customs and cultural differences of the villages along the way can attract many people. ”

“With tea culture as its main feature, the Ancient Tea Horse Road has become a cultural landscape. Chen Baoya, a scholar at Peking University, told reporters that the Ancient Tea Horse Road is not only a transportation thoroughfare, but also a carrier of history and culture. For example, the caravan culture, Tibetan tea culture, and business culture that were born along with the Ancient Tea Horse Road are integrated with each other because of the Ancient Tea Horse Road. National culture... "Now, the Ancient Tea Horse Road is a culture in itself.

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