China’s Ambassador to India recently posted on X about historic Tea Horse Road.

About Tea Horse Road

• It connected India to China, through Tibet (although not as well-known as Silk Road, which linked China and Europe).
• It does not refer to a single road but a network of branching paths that began in southwest China and ended in the Indian subcontinent.
• The means for transporting goods on these routes were trains of horses (ponies and mules) and human porters, and the network of trails and roads to Tibet became known as the Tea Horse Road.
• Two main pathways passed through cities like Dali and Lijiang in Yunnan province, and reached Lhasa in Tibet, before entering the Indian subcontinent where they branched into present-day India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
• Origin: Tang dynasty in China (618-907 CE). 
• It was a crucial commercial pathway for centuries.