About this place

Kangding, located in the east of Sichuan Kanzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is the capital city of the prefecture. Kangding is a  distribution center for Tibetan and Han goods trade since long time ago, it is the mainland gateway to Tibet.The "tea horse trade" economic exchange center.

in Tang and Song Dynasty, it started the trade that the people in Tibet ,Qinghai, Mongolia etc, they had very good horses, but no good tea, Sichuan and Yunnan grow very good tea( both green tean and black tea), but these area had no good horses, so they trade with tea and horses.