归纳了砖茶的主要生产地和五条行销路线,第一次把茶马古道和茶叶之路整合到“砖茶之路”的概念之中;研究认为,砖茶在北方少数民族地区的特殊地位,是由砖茶本身的生物特性、经济特性和文化特性等因素综合塑造的;论文重点指出：砖茶具有重要的社会功能：围绕砖茶的生产、长途运输和营销,形成了内地和西北少数民族地区之间长达上千年的民族交往历史,产生了著名的“茶马互市”经济和“以茶治边”政治,造就了享誉海外的“茶马古道”和“茶叶之路”文化,砖茶参与缔造了西北民族关系、城镇形成、政治治理和砖茶文化。

This article summarized the major producing area and five selling pathway of brick tea. It is the first time in trying to intergrate our familiar Tea-Horse Road and Tea Route into the concept of “brick road”. The paper regarded the special status of brick tea in the northern ethnic minority areas is established by these factors such as the biological characteristics of brick tea itself, the economic and cultural characteristics and so on. The paper highlighted that brick tea possesses significant social functions. Around the production, long-distance transport and marketing of the brick tea, national association between the mainland and the northwest minority areas formed for thousands of years, producing the famous “Tea-horse Trade” economy and “Frontier tea” politics, creating the reputation abroad of the “Tea-Horse Route” and “Tea Route” culture. What's more, the brick tea also played a fundamental role in the formation of the northwest ethnic relations, town, political governance and brick tea culture.