The Ancient-post-road settlements of Southwest Silk Road must have unique characters as one of whole world settlements types, but researches haven t set much foot in the fields of the Ancient-post-road settlements no matter at home or abroad at present.

Ancient post village is a kind of unique compact community.

However, Zhaotong people, with tremendously strong stamina, cut and dug numerous post roads and horse roads leading to the outside areas among the high mountains and towering ridges or by the sheer precipices and overhanging rocks and they left thousands of traffic place-names of roads, bridges, ferries, passes, positions, etc.

The Post-roads Between Two Capital in Tang Dynasty——A True Tang Poetry Road;