Dayan Old Town

Dayan’s market streets and bridges belong to a settlement shaped by regional exchange. Its wider trade role needs to be distinguished from claims about individual lanes or cargoes.

A broad stone-paved square at Sifang Street, with pedestrians, market umbrellas and traditional-style shopfronts. — Lijiang's Sifang Street square in October 2009, identified by the photographer as Lijiang Town Square. The dated view documents the public market space named in this section; it does not depict a historical caravan or prove a particular trade route.

Dayan Old Town

Lijiang at a Crossroads of Mountain Trade

Routes linking Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet made Dayan a distribution centre. Its streets and bridges record exchange without reducing every connection to a single ‘Tea Horse Road’ story.

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Lijiang's Sifang Street square in October 2009, identified by the photographer as Lijiang Town Square. The dated view documents the public market space named in this section; it does not depict a historical caravan or prove a particular trade route.Gisling · 2009-10 · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.