Three main line of the Tea-Horse Road

Lissa

Horse Road there are three main lines: the Qinghai-Tibet line (Tangfangudao,), the Yunnan-Tibet line, and the Sichuan-Tibet line, these three Tea-Horse Road, the rise of the Qinghai-Tibet line in the Tang Dynasty, developed earlier; Sichuan-Tibet line later the impact of the largest, most well-known. These three roads have a close relationship with Qamdo, the Yunnan-Tibet line, and Sichuan-Tibet line must be Qamdo, their development is closely related to the tea-horse trade.

The history of the Yunnan-Tibet line Tea-Horse Road three dozen roads: one from within the the Jianghe Li Town, flood to Tacheng, after the collapse sub-column, A, Emirates, Tianzhu Village, the gross method of public and other places to Tibet; a Jianchuan Association flood to Weixi starting after A too Emirates coincide with on a road to Tibet; a departure from Zhongdian, after Benny color drop, the Kashikojima collapse subfield slave sweep, Ebulaka origin to Tibet . Close to the main thoroughfare of this Yunnan Final Act of line.
     
Yunnan-Tibet line Tea-Horse Road in the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo Kingdom outward expansion of and Nanzhao trade activities are closely related to AD 678, the Tibetan forces into the west of Erhai Lake, Yunnan Province in the northern region. 680 years to establish kamikawa Governor Du Fu, Tibetan officials at Nanzhao, quite to the White Heiman collecting taxes, assessed the servants. Two-way trade is also considerable development, the tea-horse trade is an important one. The Nanzhao with Tibetan's transport routes is roughly similar to this Tibet Highway, this Yunnan large buried north to jianchuan, then north to Lijiang City over the iron bridge to continue along the river to go northward, and resentment led by Ben Wing Steel another ballast target mechanical cellar Wei hinder mediums speak to catch the vulgar understanding Angeles (now Tibet Mangkang) Zogang, two to go to Tibet: a via BAXOI Banda, Caya to Qamdo; a straight Basu to Bomi, too Nyingchi and Lhasa.
     
Tea-Horse Road to the starting point is the the Nanzhao regime of the Tang Dynasty capital in the territory of Yunnan to Dali. , Dali, Lijiang, Zhongdian, the A baidunzi (Dechen), etc. is a very important hub of the tea-horse trade and markets. Yunnan-Tibet line tea-horse trade, mainly tea, Pu'er tea, tea from Sichuan and other places. Yunnan-Tibet line tea-horse trade has its own characteristics, transported to the mainland by the Yunnan Han providers tea and other items to resell the land to the local shopkeeper or Tibet trafficking businessman, and from the local shopkeeper to buy horses or other livestock , native products, medicinal herbs, transported to Lijiang, Dali and Kunming sales. Tibet, Sichuan-Tibet Tibet providers, mostly in exchange for the commodity of tea-based return to Tibet. Means of transport is mainly mule and yak.