Asian Corridor in Heaven

Tea Makes the Road Open (1x3)

Data di messa in onda: Ott 20, 2007

In the seventh century AD, Emperor Wencheng princess betrothed to the Tibetan King Songtsen, Princess Wencheng when Buddhism and tea culture spread into Tibet, who did not think the tea changed forever the fate of Tibet. Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is not suitable for the cultivation of crops and vegetables, and therefore will be the main ingredients of yak, Tibetan drink milk everyday life lacks meat and vegetables, causing them serious lack of vitamins, tea can help supplement the lack of vitamins, so they call it black gold tea Tea is their flesh and life. Ya'an, Sichuan and Yunnan Pu'er side tea, supply frontier region was devoted tea manufacturing center. Today called the Sichuan-Tibet Highway ancient Tea-Horse Road, is easy to trade tea horse road center. Hundreds of thousands of years are from people back pack horse over the mountains, and then handed over to the Tibetan tea caravan, caravan trek through the final months to Lhasa, the source of life to deliver them with blood and sweat transport - the tea.