China/Tibet: Chinese propaganda image of happy Tibetans offering butter tea to a Han Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) tractor driver at the time of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The Tea Horse Road (Cha Ma Dao) was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet in Southwest China. It is also sometimes referred to as the Southern Silk Road and Ancient Tea and Horse Road. From around a thousand years ago, the Ancient Tea Route was a trade link from Yunnan, one of the first tea-producing regions, to India via Burma.

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