The book is fascinating and eloquent, leading readers on the 4,000-year-old Tea Horse Road, traveling through the Chengdu Plain, the Hengduan Mountains, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and visiting the Sanxingdui of the ancient Shu Kingdom, the tombs of the nobles of the ancient Dian Kingdom, the splendid Chengdu, the spring city of Kunming, and the Southern Silk Road in Ya'an, Xichang, Yibin, Zhaotong, Dali, and Baoshan. At the important road, talk to Li Bing, Qin Shihuang, Deng Tong, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Xiangru, Sima Qian, Zhuge Liang and other influential figures, explore the mysteries of Shu brocade, bronzes, Han palaces, Eastern Han Dynasty portrait sarcophagi, Zuo bridges, Zao horses, plank roads, etc., And listen to the classic stories of ancient Shu, Yelang, Dian, Ailao and other ancient nations.
