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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... [read more]
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... [read more] Blog: Ancient Tea Horse Road
Date: October 6th 2011
Ancient Tea Horse Road. Mile Zero. (Ninger, Yunnan province). After a trip around the globe we are here. The start of the tea horse road. This is the place where the horses were loaded with bamboo packs filled with rounds of Pu'er tea. If there weren't enough horses, and there never were, it was men who shouldered the long bamboo tongs of tea. The journey was long and hard and was su ... read more
Date: October 6th 2011
Ancient Tea Horse Road. Mile Zero. (Ninger, Yunnan province). After a trip around the globe we are here. The start of the tea horse road. This is the place where the horses were loaded with bamboo packs filled with rounds of Pu'er tea. If there weren't enough horses, and there never were, it was men who shouldered the long bamboo tongs of tea. The journey was long and hard and was su ... read more
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