Bixi Ancient Town of Mojiang Hani Autonomous County was formerly an important stage along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, a town where traveling merchants could not avoid.

Bixi Ancient Town, along with the Ancient Tea Horse Road, is a living fossil of ancient international commercial road, the ethnic migration corridor, and the route along which Buddhism was introduced eastwards. It was a “living fossil” on the Yunnan-Tibet section of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, a significant stage that merchants and caravans traveling to Chuxiong, Dali and Lijiang in the north, Yuxi and Kunming in the east, and Pu'er and Xishuangbanna in the south, must go through.