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Ancient tea route
The Tea Horse Road or ''chamadao'' (), now generally referred to as the Ancient Tea Horse Road or ''chama gudao'' () was a network of caravan paths winding through the mountains of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou in Southwest China.〔Forbes, Andrew, and Henley, David: ''Traders of the Golden Triangle'' (A study of the traditional Yunnanese mule caravan trade). Chiang Mai. Cognoscenti Books, 2011.〕 It is also sometimes referred to as the Southern Silk Road. The route extended to Bengal in the Indian subcontinent.
==History==
From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions: to Bengal via Burma; to Tibet; and to central China via Sichuan Province.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Strange Brew:The Story of Puer Tea 普洱茶 )〕 In addition to tea, the mule caravans carried salt. Both people and horses carried heavy loads, the tea porters sometimes carrying over 60–90 kg, which was often more than their own body weight in tea.
It is believed that it was through this trading network that tea (typically tea bricks) first spread across China and Asia from its origins in Pu'er county, near Simao Prefecture in Yunnan.〔Jeff Fuchs. ''The Ancient Tea Horse Road: Travels with the Last of the Himalayan Muleteers'', Viking Canada, 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-06611-7〕〔Forbes, Andrew, and Henley, David, 'Pu'er Tea Traditions' in: ''China's Ancient Tea Horse Road''. Chiang Mai, Cognoscenti Books, 2011.〕
The route earned the name Tea-Horse Road because of the common trade of Tibetan ponies for Chinese tea, a practice dating back at least to the Song dynasty, when the sturdy horses were important for China to fight warring nomads in the north.
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