The Ancient Town of Xizhou

• 作者: ZHAO YANQING
• 来源期刊: 今日中国:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: TRADING ANCIENT HORSE
• 年，卷（期）: jrzgywb_2020,（7）
• 页码范围: 74-77
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

THE ancient town of Xizhou,a community consisting mainly of the ethnic Bai people,is noted as one of the cradles of Dali’s culture,and has nourished a lot of Dali merchants.Going back as early as the Tang Dynasty(618-907),the ancestors of the Bai ethnic group had already begun to live there in concentrated numbers.During the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911),Xizhou was an important trading town along the Tea Horse Trail.Businessmen in Xizhou started doing trading in horse caravans and accumulated their initial wealth on a road marked with hardships and struggles.