Tea Horse Road / 茶马古道

[[TeaHorseRoad|茶马古道]] is the historical trade and transport route that appears in the wiki through the horse-infrastructure branch and becomes concrete in 150.吃菌！和阿错聊云南的鸡枞、松茸、见手青. Episode 171 names it as one example of horses changing trade and mobility; episode 150 uses [[ACuo|阿错]]’s [[Cangcheng|《苍城》]] discussion to make the route local, gendered, and practical.

In episode 150, the Tea Horse Road is tied to [[Lijiang|丽江]], mule and horse transport, household supply movement, and women muleteers. The point is not nostalgia alone: older transport systems survive as family labor patterns, mountain logistics, and fiction material.

Key Claims

• The Tea Horse Road is a concrete case of Horse As Civilizational Infrastructure because animals extended transport, trade, and settlement possibilities across mountain terrain.
• 阿错’s account adds a gendered and domestic layer: women could become muleteers in local short routes when family labor and local security conditions shifted.
• The route’s memory helps [[Cangcheng|《苍城》]] avoid generic “Yunnan color” by grounding characters in mobility, labor, and terrain.

Connections

• Horse As Civilizational Infrastructure - main concept branch.
• [[Yunnan|云南]], [[Lijiang|丽江]], and [[DaliYunnan|大理]] - regional context.
• [[Cangcheng|《苍城》]] and Place-Based Fiction - literary use of route memory.
• [[DaliJiaMa|大理甲马]] - adjacent horse-as-messenger and ritual transport branch.