Tea Horse Road in the source memory

In the arid desert zone dominated by the Tropic of Cancer on the earth, an oasis in the Xishuangbanna spreading ballast open to, 1.9 million square kilometers. The world's best preserved tropical rainforest and 13 native ethnic minorities, to China, the Lao border filled with green flavor of the original ecology.

Immediately behind the Lao border, the pattern of spread Dasan different landscape - vast expanse of tea forest, with the surrounding rainforest and vine branches winding ambiguous harmony growth. Slowly spreading in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture Mengla Dasan's easy to Wuxiang, winding around a ridge from the town 110 km.

Laos border town - Easy Mo town, and the Laos border stretches 100 kilometers. Millennium tea whose parents came from, here known as the Millennium "Cha" source.

The town is famous for tea

In the evening, the reporter Wu Yi arrived in town. Sprinkle in the fading light of dusk Wu Yi Street, this precipitated the millennium Tea Horse Road, the ancient tea houses and caravan of hooves has long gone.

Did not bark, the two black dog, playing on the trail of rubble, no one there. The trail makes up the blue stone, 34 meters wide and 100 to meter-long, on both sides of the housing or wooden structure, but most are uninhabited.

Yi Wu Ching standing, full of expectations from passengers, we might feel lost. This ancient town known for tea, tea shops on either side due to the changing times had changed the little visited, past the ancient charm has been destroyed, the glory of the moment seems to have been easy to force the turmoil of history after the town disappeared.

Only the door frame before hanging a plaque still preserved number of tea, especially in inhabited houses, painted the words on the plaque of fresh paint, set off down the busy here in ancient times.

"Yuan Tai Fung" is the old road is also home to the few number of people in the tea. Wu United States is "Un Tai Fung" Now the owner. At this moment, she was sitting under the eaves and parents, enjoy the tranquil town.

Several years ago, tea in the streets do have a long-established business. Wu explaining how the United States own tea history, memory, extra duty of the gate again. "Yuan Tai Fung" was her grandparents Bing-yuan, Wu Kaiyuan two brothers founded in 1921, has been 80 years of history, back in the Republic of China, tea has been done a number of tea in Vietnam, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. However, people have changed, "Yuan Tai Fung" do not do tea for years had been. Its opposite is "with Xing number" site, has now been a business registration.

Wu Yi Dai language means "beautiful place to live snakes," where the land is inhabited, it is the most Chinese cultural characteristics of the Xishuangbanna region. Looking from the bottom up, easy to appear a bit run-down town Wu, a Chinese-style courtyard adobe tile layers in the hillside, but revealed a strong flavor of the Central Plains culture.

Only found a few potatoes, no more caravan of

Yi Wu is in the old border town, 100 km long border, also is in the old border line linking the mainland only an ancient city corridor. Starting from the Wu Yi, to Laos Phongsaly to go down to Southeast Asia in Hanoi, the ancient Tea Horse Road as an important line.

Tea Horse Road caravan is a unique mode of transport. As we all know, the southwest region of China high mountains and swift rivers of the natural conditions make water into pure nightmare navigation, Hill's steep, rugged they simply can not drive vehicles while the southwest region since ancient times although it sounds like a little mountain endurance horse, so that the Caravan foot transportation came into being.

Yi Wu in the ancient town, the reporter trying to find the source of Tea Horse Road caravan of historical memory. Look for a few households, but only a few have been found in rusty potato.

Ying Chang tea, Tea Horse Road on the 1st. This house a hundred years ago, Junior Pu Huang Dingfu from Guizhou, became the guardian of tea. Huang Dingfu to find a pair of potato, potato voice is still crisp, but it is a heritage.

Alleged that town's museum has a collection of ancient tea saddle and some tools, but the journalists spent the whole day, no see man came to the door.

"Caravan never had, disappeared decades ago." Mean to the vicinity of local people as clearly recalls his seven-year-old when the adults picked the tea leaves, dried, on the use of horses laden with, one on each side bag, to a total of 100 pounds, sent to the commune. Commune far, the general was 7 am start, he followed his grandfather and father, in the mountains to go all day. This is what happened 25 years ago, "As for the tea pack to foreign countries, just listen to old recalled."

Caravan's hooves away, visibility is only a one hoof prints on the black cobblestones.