The old Tea Horse Road Station has now been replaced with a new look

Yunnan has thousands of miles of mountains. The clatter of horse hooves along the winding roads in the mountains connects the market towns. The horse caravans used their feet to open up the Ancient Tea Horse Road that connects the world, and it also became the Ancient Tea Horse Road. Each post station and market town brought prosperity and prosperity.

As time goes by, the Ancient Tea-Horse Road has gradually become lonely. However, those ancient market towns on the Tea-Horse Road did not "prosper due to the rise of tea and decline due to the decline of tea" as people thought.

Nakori: Out-of-print woodcuts inject vitality into the Tea Horse Road town

Nakori is located in Pu'er City, a major tea town. Since 2008, the Ning'er County Party Committee and County Government have planned to build the Nakori Tea Horse Road Town, with a planned investment of 1.35 billion yuan and a planned area of ??2.37 square kilometers, striving to turn the former post station on the Tea Horse Road into a unique tourism destination. small town.

The town started construction in March 2017. The first phase of construction was basically completed and passed the provincial assessment, becoming a famous tourist town in Pu'er City.

Out-of-print woodcuts originated in Pu'er City in the 1980s. Their full name is out-of-print mimeographed woodcut prints. On December 25, 2015, the "Pu'er College·Nakeli Out-of-Print Woodcut Teaching Student Entrepreneurship and Innovation Teaching Practice Base" was established, making out-of-print woodcuts a bright business card of Nakeli.

The establishment of this base not only provides students with practical training opportunities, but also sets up out-of-print woodcut training classes for farmers to train young and middle-aged farmers from the local Hani, Lahu, Yi, Dai, Wa and other ethnic groups. Students are trained.

Local farmers used their carving knives to record the festive festivals and peaceful life in Na Keli, expressing their love for life with exquisite and unique out-of-print woodcuts.

The exquisite out-of-print woodcuts have won the favor of tourists and become a way for farmers in Nakori to increase their income, injecting life and vitality into Nakori. The quiet town on the Tea Horse Road has become lively again.

Information map of Nakori Tea Horse Town

Shaxi: Renovate the old and create a boutique tourist town

As an ancient southern part of the “Belt and Road” An important node of the Silk Road, Shaxi Ancient Town, "the only surviving ancient market on the Tea Horse Road", has gradually become more prosperous due to the successful implementation of the Sino-Swiss international cooperation "Shaxi Renaissance Project" and the continuous deepening of new urbanization construction. Its former prosperity has been restored.

With Dengsi Street as the core, Shaxi has maintained the original appearance of the ancient market town to the greatest extent in line with the principle of "renovating the old as before". Here, you can see the propaganda slogans from 60 years ago, and you can also Seeing ancient murals dating back 600 years, walking up the stone steps, you will be surrounded by the vicissitudes of history.

Shaxi not only has an ancient market town that has traveled through thousands of years, but also has the "Pioneer Shaxi Bai Bookstore" with strong cultural charm.

In August this year, Pioneer Bookstore met with readers in Shaxi Ancient Town. The former flue-cured tobacco tower was transformed into a poetry tower and became a new landmark building. The old grain processing station in the village also became a "granary turned into a book warehouse." , which has become a popular check-in spot for Internet celebrities among young people.

In addition to Pioneer Bookstore, with the "Shaxi Revitalization Project" as the cornerstone, Shaxi Lanlinge Special Hotel, Huanghuaping "Hollow Village" revitalization, Shaxi Town Ecological Pastoral Complex... .The development of high-quality projects one after another has continuously improved the quality of Shaxi Ancient Town. On the tea horse road where horses once passed by, a new star of boutique tourism is rising.

Photographed by Yang Zishuang of the boutique shops along the streets of Shaxi Ancient Town

Lu Shi: The first town on the ancient Tea Horse Road in the old days is about to usher in new development

Lu Shi, Formerly known as Alusi, the Ancient Tea-Horse Post Road in Lu Shi spans the north and south, going south to Simao and Xishuangbanna, and directly to Southeast Asian countries; north to Lijiang, Tibet, and directly to India and other countries. It is known as the "First Town of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road". The north-south culture and inland civilization brought by the horse caravans traveling from south to north nourished the Lu historical culture, and the Tea Horse Ancient Town flourished because of this.

In 2002, Lushi Ancient Town was rated as a provincial key protection unit. In 2006, Lushi Ancient Town was listed as a provincial historical and cultural town; in 2012, it was listed as one of the 210 characteristic towns in the country. ; In 2013, the Lushi section of the Tea Horse Ancient Road became the seventh batch of national cultural relics protection units.

Since 2017, Lushi Town has embarked on the construction of an ancient tea-horse cultural town, adhering to the concept of "repairing the old as before" to restore the historical Lushi Ancient Town to the greatest extent. In the future, horseshoe prints of different shades will be scattered on the bluestones of Lushi Ancient Town, which not only commemorates the past glory of Lushi, but will also usher in its future development.

Horse hoofs clattering through the ancient town of Lushi. Data map

"The horse gang has brought us a lot of wealth and culture." Relying on the profound historical heritage of the Tea Horse Road, the former market towns and inns on the Tea Horse Road have embarked on a unique development path, continuing the hustle and bustle of the Tea Horse Road.