"Ancient Tea Horse Road" in Taihang Mountains-Baixing
"Ancient Tea Horse Road" in Taihang Mountains-Baixing
For thousands of years, the lofty Taihang has been obstructing the communication between Shanxi and Hebei and Henan. Therefore, the ancestors opened up many channels to communicate with Shanxi, Hebei and Henan in the Taihang Mountains. Eight of them are the most important, which are called "Taihang." "Baxing" has become a battleground for military strategists in the past. Among them, the third bridge, Baixing, is also the longest and most complete section of the ancient road in the "Taihang Eight Bridges".
Baixing
Baixing, also known as Mengmenxing, is the third path in the Taihang Eight Paths (the other seven paths are Zheguanxing, Taihangxing, Fukouxing, Jingxing, Feihuxing, Puyinxing, and Junduxing.) It is called Baixing because of the passage of the ancient Bailu Mountain. It is adjacent to Lingchuan County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province to the north and Hui County, Xinxiang City, Henan Province to the south. It has existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It has a history of 2550 years.
Military key
In the long history, Baixing has always been an important throat linking Jinyu. Through this bridge, the north can reach Jincheng and Changzhi and occupy the Shangdang highlands; cross the Yellow River to the south to race the Central Plains; to the east to capture the Hebei Plain, it was an important military site that could be attacked, retreated, and defended during the war. "The Twenty-Three Years of Zuo Zhuan·Xiang Gong" has a record of "Qi Hou defeated the Jin Dynasty, took court songs, became the second team, entered Mengmen, and climbed Taihang". Mengmen, is Baixing, this means that Zhuang Gong was attacking the Jin Dynasty, and he walked along the Baixing Ancient Road.
Tea-Horse Road
The Baixing in history was a military route for transporting grain, grass, soldiers and horses in the war years, and became an important business route for economic and cultural exchanges between the North and the South in the peace period. It was an "tea-horse road" in the Taihang Mountains. Baixing preserves the longest and most complete Ancient Tea-Horse Road in the Taihang Baxing Road, and there are still many horseshoe prints on the plank road today. The remaining boundary stele beside the Baixing Ancient Road records "Fanlu (Changzhi) Ze (Jincheng) two counties, and the people from the northwest are bustling and bustling. In the era of underdeveloped transportation, this ancient road became an important business road for Shanxi merchants to exchange north-south, currency and east-west.
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