The mysterious Tang-Bo ancient Road


Apr. 29, 2009

Which routes is Tang-Bo ancient Road?

Tang-Bo ancient Road is a very famous traffic road in ancient history of our country. as well as the only way since the Tang Dynasty goes Mainland Qinghai, Tibet, as well as Nepal, India and other countries. It began in Xi'an, Shaanxi (that is, Changan), passing through Gansu, Qinghai, to Lhasa, Tibet (that is, some logic), total length of more than 3 km. Road cross the whole of western China, across the world-famous the "roof of the world", Unicom the neighbor countries in the southwest of China, so there is the another name " south Silk Road".
Tang-Bo ancient Road general direction as follows: starting from Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, Xianyang off along the "Silk Road" the eastern section of the westbound carriageway, the more Longde Hill, by the Tianshui, Gansu, Longxi, Lintao to Linxia in Binglingsi or river Hydropower the Yellow River into the Qinghai Guanting people, by the ancient Shan, Le, Xining, Huangyuan, Tang Mountain,Daotang River related to Qiabuqia (Princess temple), and then by chegitun grassland, large dam, spring, flowers Shek Kip, along the Yellow River,Zhaling Lake and Eling Lake around and look at Bayankala Mountain after Qingshui River in Yushu, West ferry Tongtian River to end Cuba Tong, dating back to the river sub-Qu heteropoly along "into the Tibet Road, "when the song had, the more I Tanggula to Tibet NieRong, Naqu, and finally to Lhasa.

Apr. 29, 2009

Princess Wencheng and Tang-Bo ancient Road

Far more than 1300 years ago, has long been a thoroughfare Avenue, beginning to play a great role in the exchange of Chinese and Tibetan. It is a great age, but also, and a Han woman's fate - a woman is Princess Wencheng, this road is Tang-Bo ancient Road.
In the more than 1300 years ago, married Princess Wen Cheng of Tibet, and later Princess Kim are from here, the westbound bridge over Xianyang, they have come along the north bank of the Wei-Wei-yi Ma, martial arts station, and then across the broad weeks Spring and Autumn when the original fertile soil and the ancient capital of Qin Fengxiang. Then, enter the Mountain at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu, taken earthquake Clearance, sad to leave the raising of the customs of their 800 years of imperial states, 3000 kilometers to the West and there is no looking back ... ...
Now, regardless of Chinese and foreign, anything throws some light on what the history of China's National People's Congress also keen to travel all know, Xian and Central Asia, West Asia, between Southern Europe, in the Han dynasty had opened up a quite well known international exchanges easier - "Silk Road" . But for all this by Tang Chang'an towards "the roof of the world" and "Tang-Bo ancient Road" not familiar with a lot of people. Princess Wencheng, the Central Plains people should be the first spot survey Tang-Bo ancient Road . Since then more or less along the same line, mountain station, post horse, envoys, merchants, monks never contacts, making the Sino-Tibetan Road traffic at that time not only became the "hotline", but also connected with the soil Borneo Road, and then through China and India, Nepal and other South Asian countries of the contact.