中国古代的红河航道

历史上云南曾有过一条水陆交通线,即通往今天境外越南的红河航道。这条航道自先秦至元代一直存在并不断发展变化,史书对此有不少记载。红河航道的商业运输至唐朝时期(618~907年)繁荣发展到相当高度,可以由今越南河内北上,入今云南东南部、南部,转陆路交通路线,北上至今昆明,再转西折至今云南西部、西南部,入今缅甸境内,更北折西入今印度,形成了通往东南亚、南亚的国际水陆交通路线。同时又可自今昆明陆行北上,入今四川,更达中原。

The Honghe Waterway in Ancient China

In the past there was a water-land transport line in Yunnan,that is,the Honghe Waterway leading to Vietnam.History books have quite a few records of this waterway which had existed and changed from the Pre-Qin Period to the Yuan Dynasty.Its prosperity of commercial transport was in the Tang Dynasty(618-907).The popular route was from Hanoi of Vietnam to the north,entered the southeast and south Yunnan before taking a land route to Kunming in the north,or went westwards to west and southwest Yunnan before entering the present-day Burma,or went northerly west before entering the present-day India,thus forming an international water-land transport line from Yunnan to Southeast Asia and South Asia.It also led to Sichuan and the Central Plains of China by land via Kunming in the north.