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The Tea Horse Road China’s Other Silk Road
While the Silk Road carried silk west, another network of mountain trails carried something even more essential: tea. This episode explores the ancient Tea Horse Road, the labyrinth of paths that connected China's Yunnan province with Tibet and beyond. We trace its origins to the Tang dynasty's need for warhorses and Tibet's craving for tea leaves, follow the traders who braved the Hengduan Mountains with bricks of Pu'er tea, and see how this route shaped economies and cultures for over a millennium. We'll meet the Song dynasty government that officially opened the…
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