Photo shows the beautiful scenery in Mizhi Town in Mile County, southwest China’s Yunnan province. With the scattered villages, it is a hometown of Ancient Tea Horse Road.
I got to know Mizhi Town in Mile County, southwest China’s Yunnan province because of a well-known folk song Flowing River (Xiao He Tang Shui). I went to Mizhi in February when warblers play above the flourishing grasses.
Mizhi, a basin surrounded by mountains, is divided by fields. With the scattered villages, it is a hometown of Ancient Tea Horse Road. For thousands of years, there was an ancient road treaded by human feet and horse hoofs in the mountains of Southwest China, bridging the Chinese hinterland and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Along the unpaved and often rugged road, tea, salt and sugar flowed into Tibet, while horses, cows, furs, musk and other local products came out. The ancient commercial passage, dubbed the "Ancient Tea-Horse Road", first appeared during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and lasted until the 1960s when Tibetan highways were constructed.
In this spring, brilliant yellow, viridity, light blue, scarlet and purple have dyed the basin into a richly colorful world. It seemed like a brisk melody full of joys and hopes. I inhaled with satisfaction, feeling the breeze from the fields. I could smell the rhododendron, broad bean, canola flowers and soil.
I was taken into an ancient courier station with the description of Li Zechang(李泽昌), a seventy-three years old man. Under the setting sun, the melodious tinkles of bells hanging on horses were spinning on Wensheng Street. The boss of a horse store, with a water pipe in his hands, asked the waiter to feed the horse. After the arrangement of horses, a groom strolled on the street, buying rice and cloth. When the night falls, the street was brightly lit by torch and oil lamp.
The origin of Wensheng Street was the Pearl Spring where the aged grooms used to drink water and take a break. Clear it is, the spring flowing up from the bottom rock just like strings of pearls.
Photo shows the beautiful scenery in Mizhi Town in Mile County, southwest China’s Yunnan province. With the scattered villages, it is a hometown of Ancient Tea Horse Road.
Photo shows the beautiful scenery in Mizhi Town in Mile County, southwest China’s Yunnan province. With the scattered villages, it is a hometown of Ancient Tea Horse Road.
Photo shows the beautiful scenery in Mizhi Town in Mile County, southwest China’s Yunnan province. With the scattered villages, it is a hometown of Ancient Tea Horse Road.
