Title: The Main Reason for the Prosperity of Hezhou Tea-horse Trade in the Ming Dynasty
Abstract: Our ancient central government traded with western minority areas,especially western Tibet by tea for horse.This way of exchange had a strong impact on the then western frontier's politics,economy and culture.Ming Dynasty was the most prosperous period of tea-horse trade in Chinese while Hezhou was the most flourishing area of the tea-horse trade in Ming Dynasty.Why is the tea-horse trade prosperous in Hezhou? This paper discusses Hezhou's special geographical location,Tibet's demand for tea and the policy that the Ming court resisted the North Yuan and western Qiang.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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