山西祁县古茶路及茶叶物流考证

Textual Research on the Tea Road and Circulation in Ancient Qi'xian County of Shanxi Province

明清时期,晋商开辟了一条把中国江南和欧亚大陆连起来的"茶叶之路"。晋商的万里"茶叶之路",由采茶到开发基地种植、加工;由水运到驮运、车运、再驮运到欧亚大陆,是一项庞大的茶叶物流工程。祁县的古茶道路是晋商万里茶路上最重要的中心路段,祁县茶商是开辟"茶叶之路"的主力军。

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties,Shanxi merchants opened ＂the Road of Tea＂,which connected the South of China with the mainland of Eurasia.This Tea Road was a vast project for tea circulation,which covered from tea picking to land exploiting,tea growing and processing;from shipping to packing,trucking,packing again to Eurasia.The ancient Tea Road opened by Qixian merchants was the most important key period in the 10-thousand-li Tea Road made by Shanxi merchants,and the tea merchants in Qixian County was the main force for the ancient Tea Road.