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Tea Horse Road Chronicles – The Great Bend of the Yangtze
It was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’ in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the great waterway and would ‘take’ the previously independent region into the greater fold of the Middle Kingdom … Continue reading
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Tea Horse Chronicles – Remnants
Within the tidy remnants of a former ‘Tea and Horse Trade Office’ in Mingshan County, near Ya’an in Sichuan, Jamyan and I wandered for 25 bizarre and wondrous minutes. As we made our way in to the horse dung and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Tea Horse Road, Asia tea history, Cha Ma Gu Dao, Jeff Fuchs, Mingshan, Sichuan Tea, Tea, Tea and Horses, tea custom, tea history, Tea Horse Road, tea horse road chronicles, tea trade, Ya'an
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Tea Horse Road Chronicles – Other Tales and Sight
Not all stories of the Tea Horse Road were ones of grand expanses, snow caps, or buzzing tea sessions. A friend from the Yi minority invited me to visit his grandmother who had tales of her own to tell. She … Continue reading
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Tagged Cha Ma Gu Dao, China, Interview, Jeff Fuchs, Pu'erh, puer, Tea, tea custom, tea history, Tea Horse Road, tea horse road chronicles, The Tea Explorer, yunnan, Yunnan Travel
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