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Medog is located in the southeast corner of Tibet, the low-lying south north high, with an area over 30,000 square km, is a downstream rivers Brahmaputra valley, with an average elevation of over 1000 meters.
Mainland China more than 2100 counties in the executive establishment, there are still not accessible by road nor a postal areas. Human back is why it is the only mode of transport here; dongqian the door of Palestinians live virtually isolated primitive life; Ishinabe and chopsticks out of the mountain was actually the only goods, but rich in natural resources where they can feed Tibet More than half of the population, which is located in Tibet Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is known as the hinterland of the plateau "isolated island" of Medog County
This is the most mysterious places in Tibet, is a virgin land was never developed. Several decades, the central government tens of millions have voted heavily in mountains and roads, but were repeatedly collapse, landslide, debris flow inundation, so far here, all the materials needed to shoulder people still rely on back, all out of here, have You need to use the body measuring the earth, by foot, crossing ridge crosses. In this interest-bearing in human years, from a few people out here, but be able to enter the hinterland of the valley were less. A chance, I had the honor as a forest expedition on foot across the Grand Canyon, walked into this highland "islands."
This is the lowest elevation of the Tibetan plateau, the environment the best, the best wet weather, the most abundant rainfall, ecological and best-preserved places. It is rich in forestry, water and agricultural resources, enough to feed half the population of Tibet. Is such a resource-rich areas, due to historical, and natural conditions, for various reasons, a long time, almost isolated, not only the natural conditions have not been changed, but economic development also basically equal to zero, closed to make this area on the Tibetan plateau also holds the original state of an "islands."
The only county inaccessible by road
Here there have been roads, have had two days together, four motor vehicles through the history.
September 25, 1993 and 26 days, a rudimentary road finally two carts and two car crossed the mountains and canyons along the rugged mountain slowly entering a closed "island", Medog unprecedented a major event so that the county people's surprise, people came to watch it like a holiday, the strange are automatically run a "monster." Finally saw the old people had heard of the car, the children were terrified, and some people even kneel down to pray in the car before the blessing. However, this sensational news just a few days time will never become history, car into the Medog has become an instant legend. Later, in Medog County, I have finally found a "tie-Mexican highway" after the opening left in the city is unable to open out the "Dongfeng" brand truck wreckage - covered with rust and the car driver's floor baffle shell.
As early as 30 years ago, the central government and the Tibet Autonomous Region began Medog highway construction, however, launched several dismount on several occasions. As the geological structure is very complex coupled with climate variability, landslides, floods, landslides, avalanches and so on continuously throughout the year, road repair a collapsed section of Ins and Outs to repair the 140 kilometers of easy road, 30 years, spent tens of millions and finally all in vain. Can say that this is based on the history of the opening two days the price of life in return. Are still erected in the town of Bomi County, wooden tie "tie - Mexican highways, the monument", became a national highway in the history of the history of the shortest mark. Now all they have to resume as ever, Medog county is still inaccessible by road.
The most northern village in Medog
Lu ancient village located on the western coast of the Brahmaputra, is the most marginalized Medog County, a small village, from the Middle Kingdom to the Lu Medog county needs to go 4 to 5 days way. The village is not only a dozen families. After 10 days to climb the cliff, over landslides, wearing jungle days, we settled in the village an empty wood covered with large "classroom" where. The arrival of a stranger, so that is almost isolated stir up the quiet mountain village, the villagers out of curiosity, all gush from their homes watch the fun. Even the dog barks more than reason, have not seen the children were frightened strangers crying mother's arms straight drill, a time of boiling up a small village.
Lu ancient village with farming, the villagers depend on kinds of corn, wheat, chicken feet for a living and raise a number of valley pigs, cattle. As being located in forest areas, the villagers houses entirely of Muban Fang, up and down two floors. The upper occupied and warehouses, low-level raise livestock. As the smoky and no electricity, the room light is dark, decoration is also very simple, I passed the 78 villagers are relatively poor at home. Two children is a pre-Tsuishine Muban Fang, wood Chung is about one meter long, in the middle of about two small sized coarse, Sheng m is the hollowed out wooden blocks, kids wood Chung hands clenched the middle raised high, and then smashed down to, repeated dozens of times before the hull out.
A small village is the most special person regardless of gender is almost a green military uniform, and some middle-aged women also like wearing a green cap. When the husband heard that we are looking back when the young and old flocked to the village, and some even trying to climb on things that would go visit him back. To meet our arrival, Medog County Deputy Magistrate building A with a few people walked in the valley who arrived here five days, and also because could not contact us again in the village had to wait for an entire six days, until we arrived after the The next day they brought us the road.
Too big Liusuo Yajiang
Medog no choice but to glide into the Yajiang big Liusuo single rope, which is the only way. A thick rope around walking stick across the river in the Brahmaputra rolling over, not far from there a few have already fading streamer with the wind drift exhibition. Surface of the river about 120-meter-wide, together with an extension cord to the cross section, Liusuo about 200 meters long, Liusuo from the surface of the river there were nearly 100 meters high. As the normal is none other than crossing the river near the village, there were very few rope is already rusting. Rock River has been raging roar of the river washed its many flaws, Liusuo be fixed on the shore of the cliff stone, from time to time there are Sijiao She climbed up and down.
People began to have done Jiang preparation. Migrant workers are taken out from a basket carried on the bow as a home-made wooden, frame in steel wire rope on tying a rope around the waist, a rope to the two ends of a wooden tie, followed by your feet off the ground to rope one clip back on river water towards the blue sky with both hands clenched wooden ends just to hear "Oh," is heard, an instant cushion the impact of the human body with the downward slide into the river 100 meters wide across, but because Liusuo too long, the middle arc too large, sudden can not be rushed Liusuo the top, the remaining 10 meters need to cross hands and feet to reach the other side climbing rope. From 10 am until 4 pm more than more than all of Sagittarius was safely passed the big Liusuo Yajiang to continue to work towards Medog county.
Medog porter
In Medog the most common mode of transport is also a human porter. This is a very special convoys, but also Medog people's lifeline. Decades, hundreds of thousands of tons of materials is to rely on migrant workers back into the feet and shoulders back out. Supplies, food, medicine, military supplies, including building houses with reinforced concrete, iron, and many daily necessities are all migrant workers by piece, step by step turned snow-capped mountains on the pounds, over landslides, wearing back into the canyon.
To cross the Grand Canyon into Medog, we hired a peak of nearly 60 workers, back more than a month of food and articles. They changed a township, a village of a change, a group of pick a number, ranging from a few days as many as 10 days, the wind, rain, the snow, we followed the walk through the Grand Canyon, camped. Them sweat, rain, and have been following the bloody sucking leech mixing, wet blood ambiguous one. Is almost empty-handed while the lines we sometimes feel difficult, dangerous sectors also need to migrant workers up by the arm, and they both men and women, apart from the things behind our backs, but also back own burning kettle was covered as well as food and so on, each were weight-bearing for at least forty or fifty pounds. Husband in the back of the foot of the ditch, but there is no more, no turning, but the mountains. It can be said, whether in the Grand Canyon or in the Medog, without these hard-working husband back, we will be unable to move.
Dongqian door Palestinians
Medog ancient times known as "white Ma Gang," in Tibetan means "flower." Tripitaka "Kanjur" called the "Buddha of the Pure Land Bama Kong, Most Excellent among the Most Excellent." Thus, there is also a yearning for Tibetan Buddhist sacred lotus. More than 100 years ago, Bomi, Wang set up in this case (counties), and the quiet beauty of this piece of fertile land, but also Monba major settlements.
"The Gate" refers to the door corner, "Pakistan" means the Tibetan people. "Mamba" is a Tibetan living in the door corner anywhere else was intended. In 1999, according to the latest statistics, the current Medog County, 9,000 people in the whole mouth, Monba had more than 6,000 people. According to historical records and folk legends, Medog is originally not the home of the Mamba people, who in the last two hundred years ago, that we traveled east along the corner from the door to. Legend of the East have a Buddha Pure Land, where there is no exploitation and oppression, but it is rich in natural resources, where the weather conditions, not kinds of barley have tsampa, rivers of milk and spring water does not raise yaks with butter. This area suffered from living in the door corner door of the suffering and exploitation of Palestinian people, is too attractive a. They decided to go to the East to find the Buddha's Pure Land. This is the door of the Palestinian dongqian legends. In fact the history of the Mamba people are suffering dongqian escape history.
More than 100 years ago, six people left the door Mamba corner dongqian, they are the pioneers who traveled east memba, it is relying on the courage and wisdom as well as the East longing for a better all the way on the road. They experienced the ups and downs of life and death struggle with nature, to overcome difficulties, and finally came to Bama post. Although they do not find here, the fantasy of the Paradise, but in this fertile land of freedom, built a village and has since settled down. In the ensuing 100 years time, the door of the door corner areas and to the Palestinian people have continuously traveled east, flourish. It is said that hundred years, Monba formed a dongqian trend. In dongqian where they will have a door the wrong direction and the Palestinians settled in today's Nyingchi Pai Lung area, therefore, mainly in Tibet, Monba ghettos and exclusive Long 2 to Medog.
Moinba no text, but it has its own language, their common use of Tibetan Tibetan. Although belief in Tibetan Buddhism, but in the past heavily influenced by the primitive religion, combined with long-standing occlusion of the environment, which in many ways retained a more primitive way of life.
Medog Township is Moinba Ma Tei Tsuen village, the village has 16 households 94 people, and dozens of Mu Banfang scattered in a narrow valley area. Mu Banfang Mamba people are two-story, plenty of roof shingles, and some stone, and some grass, the individual is white tin roof, do not ask which is relatively better-off villagers. Medog in the damp, white tin is neither leaks, and long service life, is the ideal building material, but need to spend money on hiring migrant workers come back.
Because it is the rainy season, around a muddy Medog County, the city barely a bigger flat, the county should be considered the best buildings of reinforced concrete structure of the county hospital auditorium. The city's largest store opened in Sichuan, a self-employed, commodity lot, but the price is too high. A chicken on a hundred dollars a catty potatoes 5 yuan a jin of pork, 25 ~ 28 yuan ... ... shop owner, said high prices because all the things people have to rely on the pounds come back to.
In Medog, from the county to the ordinary people in daily life goods, using the most is the most expensive addition to shoes walking stick. Because they are both far and near the road, we should go out walking. Because of inconvenient transportation, medical care to even more difficult. Medog Garrison came up with an "air consultations" special treatment approach in which a condition of air delivered to the region with the AT & T, please the other doctors to examine her, then telegraph Dole will address the program and medication side back, greatly facilitate the "isolated island" on the The medical treatment is difficult. Medog Garrison one person in charge told me that in 1997 a school in Dongguan, Guangdong Province from the press know that there is still the country Medog County, so the students wrote a letter to the collective condolences to the officers and men stationed in Medog a result, the letter Leng is to take a year before to the officers and men. , 26-year-old Monba compliance with the Secretary of Posts and Telecommunications beads said to me, Medog County unreasonable mail, no newspapers, only the telegraph business, the majority of phones are only into and can not play, county post offices, he added a total of 3. At my invitation, he specifically identified the rarely used postmark, my own envelope and stamp the Medog postmark on the postcard as a memento.
La mountain climb dogxung
Medog to leave, and before leaving the county to send each of us by a local native - Shi Wo and an ebony chopsticks, this is the only way to Medog County, production and processing of commodities. They said Medog too poor, there is really no things that can be sent with a Shi Wo would think back to Medog.
Climb over snow-capped mountains is the male pulled out of Medog a must, but also access to the most difficult period of Medog. Dogxung la Snow Yakou just over 4200 meters above sea level, which the plateau is the most common height. However, its difficulty is only a few hundred meters from the altitude of the subtropical half-day climb to the snow and ice cold "Arctic" This sharp increase in the altitude of ordinary people is intolerable.
Dogxung not pull snow-capped mountains of snow, even in the summer is also a snow-covered pass, only 4 months a year where the snow does not close off the mountains. Here, the highest daily temperature time is noon, some snow and ice melt from the lower part of the most vulnerable to avalanches and ice cave, so both still coming out into the mountains, you must turn the pass rush before noon.
Days without light we would play well pack up to a multi-hung embarked pull snow-capped mountains. Pull the vast multi-hung mist-shrouded mountains, visibility is very low, eyes, leaving only a string of messy footprints. Wind very large, through the Pass, when there are at least 89 wind power, every other words are hardly a few meters away could not hear. Finally at 13:00 o'clock we turned a number of male pull snow-capped mountains in this gate of hell. Out of the "island", Medog left me everything there are always constantly flashed in my mind
Author: dellren123
