In the "daughter of country" to drink buttered tea
Meili Snow Mountain Mingyong down from the back-ming, Nagamura, due to a bad cold so my body appeared collapse, we had to temporarily to the village head rest at home, the village head for our specially butter tea. Butter tea has a very high heat, and with high nutrition and vitamins, oxygen in the cold regions, drinking yak butter tea, quickly added that the physical, and can effectively prevent colds and mountain sickness.
Tea, the village head to tell us about the Tibetan polyandry Khampas strange marriage customs.
As the cross-sectional Hill akin to finding dangerous, traffic isolation, sparse population, low productivity, life is extremely difficult. Thus, in cloud Nande Qin, Tibet Salt Markam, Qamdo and other places there have been more polyandrous families. Polyandry marriage was basically brothers wife, that several brothers marrying one wife, their children will be treated as has been pointed out that the family care for the young and live in harmony. According to a survey conducted 50 years, the old Tibet, polyandry families accounted for 24%, Kang District Qamdo Dengqen about 50%. Until the present age, there is still a higher proportion of polyandry, such as the Qamdo area in 1994, a survey shows that in 9824 in Markam County, polyandry are 2033, accounted for 21%.
The world has a variety of marriage patterns, while polyandry is less ethnographic records in the world, only four people there is polyandry, where there are Tibetans.
Polyandrous marriage customs, in addition to environmental and economic reasons, the author visits and access to historical materials through the post believe that there are historical and cultural reasons. As early as 1,300 years ago, Connecticut area this piece of land was a country ruled by a woman known to history as the East and the West country women female country, this part of history now well known. In fact, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the Chinese historical records, there on the "daughter of country" real record. Western woman named Su adjoin the country, people's social status Zeyi Gender dash: Female statue humble men, women enjoyed many privileges, if not taxes, not do heavy work, master of political powers. Men will neither political rights, nor social status, can only be sent out expeditions, and to do some hunting, farming such "menial jobs" even the Queen's husband, can only be to do some housework. Accordingly, in Kham residual polyandrous marriages, and history, there is longer than the long-standing feminist do not open off the Department of State.
Kham earth is an ever there are many mysterious and magical place --- both closed and open, both ancient and young, high altitude and barren land to make here, sparsely populated, but bred out of extraordinary national spirit and unique culture landscape.
Cultural Corridor along the white-Mang Snow Mountain
Farewell Ming Yong village, we go down to Zhongdian, Yunnan-Tibet Cha Ma Ancient Road embarked. Walking in the trail on the plateau blazing sun Saxiang earth, steep gorges a dazzling light, scattered forest in the valleys between the buildings housing the Tibetan Tibetan stone house as if it were the owner --- Khampa like stalwart, rugged, and SHEN Xiong.
For thousands of years countless caravans with their own pace, and even lives to walk in the mountains in the transverse mountains opened up across Tibet, leading to the Western Regions the country's "Tea-Horse Road." This ancient road, not only strange and beautiful scenery, and its more than 10 nationalities live on both sides, forming a colorful culture corridor, this is a rare cultural heritage of mankind.
Deqin not far out of town, we will enter the White Mang Snow Mountain Nature Reserve. Protected areas, covering an altitude of 5640 meters the highest point of the Zara birds, nev and the lowest at 2,200 meters xiaruo Township, height difference over more than 3400 meters, forming from the sub-tropical, temperate to frigid zone of the three-dimensional climate characteristics and vegetation types, walking where seasons in one day can feel the changes in temperature and landscape. At a time when autumn walk through the protected areas, as sitting in the colorful fairy-tale world.
"Shangri-La" illusory, such as real
September 14, 1997, a highly impact the news spread to domestic and foreign: thousands of people around the world admire over half a century of Shangri-la "Shangri-La" was confirmed in Yunnan, China Diqing Plateau.
"Shangri-La," the word comes from British author published in 1933, Hilton novel "Lost Horizon", which explains the meaning as follows: isolated paradise.
Yunnan Diqing presides over Deqin County, Zhongdian County, as well as Weixi County, where has "Lost Horizon" in the description of all the human natural landscape: majestic sacred pyramid-like shine of the snow-capped mountains and spectacular glaciers, steep magnificent canyons, crystal clear highland lakes, the vast alpine meadow, glittering lama temple, the quiet simplicity of rural, multi-ethnic people live in harmony, a variety of religious, cultural, peaceful co-existence ... ... All this invariably reveals Hilton's lines, " Shangri-La "ideal prototype of the Kingdom.
In fact, the "Shangri-La," then why must be a specific location. Its real meaning is that for people to show an ideal kingdom, it makes people's spirit of pursuing and beliefs.
When you walk into Diqing, into the transverse mountain ranges, into the Kham earth, the human touch in that deep inside, where people and nature to achieve a high degree of harmony where, in that extensive and profound culture, the ancient is not in that change the picture, there we are looking for pure, sweet sounds of ... ...
Author: datoulang
