| Tea Horse Road, which is the history of the Central Plains and minority pass on thetrade route. The main commodities by mutual frontier of tea and horses, it is called TeaHorse Road. Tea-Horse Road is both a farming civilization and nomadic civilizationblend, but also the testimony of friendship between the Chinese and Tibetan. From theTang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty a thousand years, and gradually formed a few fromthe western region of the Central Plains region leads Tea Horse Road, which includes arepresentative of Shaanxi and Gansu Road, Sichuan-Tibet Road, Yunnan Road and soon. These tea-horse trade route opened, greatly contributed to the frontier and theCentral Plains exchanges and contacts. Both sides of each other, to promote economicdevelopment in the border areas, but also on the Central Plains to strengthen bordercontrols and frontier minority areas recognized on the Central Plains have played asignificant role.Ming and Qing Dynasties is the turning point of China’s social development.Since the Central Plains dynasty ruled the policy adjustment and the Central Plainsregion’s population migration, tea-horse trade during this period there has been rapiddevelopment. Tea Horse Road commercial property is also growing, not only becomes adirect link between Chinese and Tibetan, or constitute an important part of the nationaltrade route. In the tea-horse trade and the "mercantilist" ism factor induction, this traderoute and many towns have a traditional farming towns completely different businessmodel-which is also since Ming and national immigrant population expansion results.In traditional Chinese ancient society, has been re-thought and Restraining Commerce’spolicy has always been dominant. Therefore, the development of China’s ancient townhas been the political, military and other elements as its core components, commercialand agricultural derivatives handicraft but only commodity economy supported bycommercial or handicraft town in the Ming and Qing dynasties before and rare.Northwest towns due Tea Horse Road Su Song flourishing trade with the rise of thecommercial town of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, like, reflects the Ming and QingDynasties commodity economy in the country’s development.In this context, this way the various cities and towns providers, whethertraditional agricultural town, military fortress also, or transportation hub, chief legacy inthis period, with the prosperity of the tea-horse trade functions in the city undergonesome changes. Can be said that both the Shaanxi-Gansu-line Tea-Horse Road traderoute for urban development typical case, but also re-deconstruction economic historyof the Ming and Qing Northwest region an important clue. Mature business tradingtowns of the Northwest region is multi-dimensional, which is mainly manifested in theNorthwest Territories to strengthen the linkages between the Mainland and promoteNorthwest towns,"mercantilist" doctrine appears trading town gradually become newimmigrants to meet consumer transit, meet the relevant requirements in the financialmarkets and to promote the maturation of minority business development. In addition,the Northwest flourishing commercial towns inland strengthened economic and trade ties with the Northwest Territories, Northwest commercial market also contributed tothe final shape. |
