论“茶马古道”的形成、发展及其历史地位

The history of “the Old Tea-Horse Road”

“茶马古道”是唐宋以来汉藏等民族之间进行商贸往来的重要通道 ,它主要穿行于今藏、川、滇横断山脉地区和金沙江、澜沧江、怒江三江流域 ,是以茶马互市为主要内容 ,以马帮为主要运输方式的一条古代商道。它是中国藏区连接祖国内地 ,并外延至南亚东南亚的重要纽带 ,是中国西南民族自古以来相交往、融合的走廊 ,是一条中国在对外经济文化交流和文明传播中起过重要作用的古老驿道。

Wriggling in the Hengduan Mountains and the area of the three rivers (Jinshajiang, Lancangjiang and Nujiang), “the Old Tea-Horse Road”, along which tea and horses were traded between the Han people and the Tibetanssince the Tang-Song Dynasties, was once an important road to Tibet, South Asia and Southeast Asia. It was also an important corridor in Southwest China as well as an old post road to foreign countries.