Introduction to the ancient road

"Traveling the Ancient Road": Shaanxi businessmen have three major historical contributions. One is the "Silk Road", which opened up a commercial avenue to the world with Chinese and foreign businessmen; the other is the trip to the Shaanxi-Kangzang Ancient Tea Horse Road, which is a folk It is called "Walking to the Ancient Road"; the third is to take the west exit. The folk song "Walking to the West Entrance" in northern Shaanxi is well-known to every household. It promotes economic and cultural exchanges between ethnic groups and the integration of ethnic groups, which is of great significance to stabilizing and developing frontiers. In addition, Shaanxi businessmen also go to the provinces south of the Yangtze River, Ningxia, Gansu, Xinjiang, Henan and other east and west regions to do business. Some even go abroad. Shaanxi businessmen doing business in Henan are most famous for their party surnames.

No one mentioned the history of Guan-Shaanxi merchants’ “traveling on the ancient road”. It was almost squeezed into the cracks of history and forgotten by people. Fortunately, after 2000, it attracted the attention of academic circles.

The "Qin-Shu Ancient Road" is an ancient road from Chang'an (today's Xi'an) to Chengdu, with a total length of more than 1,000 kilometers. Starting from Chang'an, we go through Chang'an Ziwu Ancient Road, Zhouzhi Heiyukou, Zhouzhi Xinkou, Tangluo Ancient Road at Luoyukou, starting from Baoxie Road in Mei County, Chencang Road (old road) to Hanzhong, and then from Hanzhong to Chengdu.

The route starting from Baoji Chencang Road can also go directly to Chengdu via Jinniu Road.

The earliest route Shaanxi merchants took was through the "Qin-Shu Ancient Road" to Bashu (mainly Kangding, but also to West Asia, India and Southeast Asia. In Kangding, it was divided into two routes, one heading west to Tibet , one heading southwest towards Yunnan), because it is walking back and forth between ancient roads, "pai" means the number of times, it is called "traveling the ancient road", "pai" also includes walking on mountains and waterways, testing, and accompanying others. In other words, the variant character of "Pa" is "Pa", so it is written as "Pa ancient road" in writing. We have to admire the ingenuity of the ancients in using words.