Culture of Ancient Tea-horse Road

The Ancient Tea-Horse Road is the bridge of cultural intercourse that connects with the Tibetan and Han nation and other minorities, meanwhile, it is also an important route of natural and cultural tourism in Chamdo area. In many towns of the Tea-Horse road, the culture of Zang, Han, Moslemism, Naxi and other different cultures run parallel and emerge the condition of absorption, composite, blending. Natural wonders, civilization heritage, marks of ancient ethnic customs and countless romantic stories are spread along the Road. It’s the deposition of history that contains traces of people’s activities over thousands of years and their persistence to life.

The Ancient Tea-Horse Road stretches through the ethnic corridor area across Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet. This area is the place where many ethnic groups have been living and multiplying, also a great platform on which they have presented comedies and tragedies in the history. Meanwhile, the national unity blooms on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road. It is a cultural storehouse for unceasing exploration and deserves our thinking.

Traveling along the Ancient Tea-Horse Road is a trip to return to the nature, a trip of the harmony between men and the nature, a trip of spiritual neutralization for urban people, and a trip of adventure and discovery.

Along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, magnificent and mysterious natural scenery and traditional cultures develop in various sites, including Dali old city, Lijiang old city, Shangri-la, Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon, Potala Palace. Ancient Tea Horse Road features temples, rock paintings, post houses, ancient bridges and plank roads, so are there ancient religious ceremonies, Lamaist temples and towers, old religious engravings on mountains, ancient giant wall-paintings, which is also home to many minorities and their dances and colorful folk customs. All these are rich natural and cultural tourist resources.

Traveling along the Ancient Tea-Horse Road is a trip to return to nature, a trip to experience ancient culture, a trip of the harmony between men and the nature, a trip of spiritual ablution for urban people, and also a trip of adventure and discovery.

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