以长诗的手法，描述数千年来，在这条因茶马互市而形成的古道上演绎的许许多多悲欢离合、发人深省的故事。诗中的茶马人物叙述，以真人真事为主，以各民族间相互依存，相互往来，团结亲善，和睦友好为主题，反映了云南和西藏因茶马古道的纽带相连，而在经济、社会和文化方面的发展历史。|This book is a muscle Pulled from Time's living body It hangs the high plateau sky On a corner-pole of history A hoofprint up there Soaked up all the swirling weather All the vicissitudes of human life An azalea has said all there is to say About a thousand years of grief and joy Sad farewells and joyous reunions Bend down and pick up a song of two halves half sad, half happy One pure teardrop Cannot contain range upon range of tall mountains One silver hair cannot stem river after long river flow. . . .