Road is the link between cities and plays the role of lifeline. Since China's reform and opening up, it has advocated "to get rich and build more roads", which has played a very good role in boosting China's economy.
Roads are so important that in ancient times, the royal family and the government also attached great importance to road construction. In TV series, we often see the road connecting the station, where galloping horses gallop and deliver documents or goods. So why is the ancient road commonly known as the "official road"? Because:
In ancient times, roads were built at the expense of the royal family or the government. Ownership belongs to the state, not to individuals, and no one can be private. That's why it's called official road.
Unlike now, roads are owned by the state. At that time, there were paths between the buildings corresponding to the official road, which belonged to the landlord, county and king, so the meaning of the word official road was more clear.
The word Lu Guan was first seen in the poem "Driving in Nine Days" by Wang Bo, a poet in the Han Dynasty: "Huangshan hunting ground is wide and Qingmen road is long." This means that Huangshan is an open place, where hunting can be done everywhere, and the official road of Qingmen is wide, flat and slender. It can be seen that since the Han Dynasty, the state began to attach importance to road construction. From this point, it is not difficult for us to understand why the national strength became stronger during the Han Dynasty.
In addition, China's famous ancient tea-horse road, Shu Road and Silk Road are all extensions of the meaning of the word official road, which have played an important role in civilized exchange and cargo transportation in history.