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A Tea-horse Road exhibition titled "Hoof Prints" kicked off in Pu'er Museum in the city of Pu'er, Yunnan province, on May 22, where more than 500 antiques made their debut.
Pu'er is the birthplace of Pu'er tea and the Tea-horse Road and has China's largest number of tea relics and antiques. The 500 antiques on display at the exhibition are part of a collection unearthed by the Tea-horse Road Research Institute of Yunnan University over a 20-year period.
The vice-mayor of Pu'er, Tong Shuwei, who addressed the exhibition's opening ceremony, had this to say, "As an essential part of the Tea Convention & Expo 2013, the Tea Tea-horse Road relic exhibition is intended to help preserve Pu'er's intriguing tea culture by showing how drinking Pu'er tea cultivates health and to build closer connection with the rest of the world."
The exhibit is indeed a dazzling display. It includes a saddle, a three-stringed Chinese guitar, a teapot, and hooves, which according to one visitor, are "complete strangers to my eyes, and helped me visualize the history of the Tea Horse Road".
The exhibition, which will run for two years, is the joint creation of the provincial cultural heritage bureau, the municipal government, and Yunnan University. In addition to the vice-mayor, the mayor of Pu'er and other officials also took part in the opening ceremony.
