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RECORD DATE NOT STATED China: Muleteers crossing the Luding Bridge over the Dadu River in Luding County, Garze Tibetan A
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RECORD DATE NOT STATED China: Muleteers crossing the Luding Bridge over the Dadu River in Luding County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, c.1900 The Tea Horse Road Cha Ma Dao was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet in Southwest China. It is also sometimes referred to as the Southern Silk Road and Ancient Tea Horse Road. From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions, to India via Burma, to Tibet, and to central China via Sichuan Province.br/br/ In addition to tea, the mule caravans carried salt. It is believed that it was through this trading network that tea typically tea bricks first spread across China and A Copyright: xAugustexFrancoisxPicturesxFromxHistoryx
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IMAGO/CPA Media
Date
01 janv. 1900
Crédit
Photo12/Imago
Notre référence
MGO25A08_423
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
49,4Mo (1,2Mo) / 40,6cm x 30,5cm / 4800 x 3600 (300dpi)