Ya'an Holidays

Ya'an is the starting point of the Sichuan-Tibet stretch of the Tea-horse Road. The brick tea produced in Ya'an, which was called frontiers tea was carried by caravans traversing the Erlang Mountain to Tibet and further afar to India and Nepal to exchange for horses, drugs. Those trading activities went on for centuries, which boosted economy along the road and brought peace and stable atmosphere to the frontier regions.

Ya'an is one of the birthplaces of tea culture, whose tea growing history can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty over 2,000 years ago. Tea trees planted at the Mengding shang Hill by a man who was engaging in herds were believed to be the ancestors of China’s tea. Even today, tea grown at the Mengding shan is still considered superior.

As the world- famous hometown of giant pandas, Ya’an is place where the first panda was discovered. The number and density of the giant pandas in Ya’an rank the 1st over the world.