正The Southern Silk Road, a passageway that has nearly been forgotten, experienced its ups and downs throughout history. There was a time when it was one of the most prosperous business passageways in South China, winding its way through the Southeast, among the large range of cragged mountains and torrential rivers. This passageway, linking land and water, starts out from Hunan Province, passes all of Guizhou and finally reaches Burma via either Yunnan Province or Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Han people took goods like salt, silk, needles and threads and brought home the rice and medicinal materials they had bought from local ethnic groups. The passageways originating from Yunnan and Guangxi join into one at Guizhou, going across all of Guizhou from the Southeast to the Northwest. Chinaweek will be telling stories about the Southern Silk Road from Zhenyuan, Guiyang, Anshun and Xingyi in three issues, beginning with Zhenyuan.
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