Salt well—"living fossil" on ancient Tea-Horse road
Historically, the Yanjing Naxi township in Mangkam county of southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region was the main road through which tea were transported into Tibet.The ancient salt wells in Yanjing township have a history of about 1,300 years and help make it a rich place. It is also the only surviving cultural landscape of artificial primitive salt drying on the ancient tea-horse road.
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