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Dishes made with salt produced in Yantian will be very tasty without adding other seasonings.

It's not just monks who like salt at this ancient temple.

In the picture, all kinds of sparrows, groundhogs, and even foxes are lying on the ground and eating the salt.

Salt and highland barley let the animals in the mountains come to enjoy regular breakfast at regular intervals.

Many animals call this place their home.

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Watching the groundhog eat the barley from the hands of the monks without fear of strangers.

Xiao Zhu suddenly felt that such a picture was sometimes very harmonious.

Perhaps only Saizang Plateau can see such a scene.

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LS River, before converging into the Yarlung Zangbo River.

Passed through a small village.

Villager Baima came to the river and took out a piece of cowhide from the river.

Here's how to cook leather in the village.

Baima called seven or eight helpers and began to sew a few pieces of cowhide out of the water into a certain shape.

There is no need to draw lines in advance, and the knife is done based on experience.

Cut the cowhide thinly into long strips for threading needles.

The cowhide is framed with some willow wood.

No nails are needed, all rely on the elasticity of the leather itself and the bayonet reserved between the sticks.

A boat is formed.

The hull of the boat is coated with rapeseed oil produced in the field, and the oil is fully integrated into the leather boat.

This kind of boat is called a cowhide raft.

It used to be an important means of transportation with a history of thousands of years.

In this village called Junba, cowhide rafts are used for fishing.

Every time a boat is completed, there is a celebration.

Because of beliefs, Tibetans are taboo about fishing and eating fish.

However, due to some kind of tradition, the only fishing village in Tibet was born.

A boat is like a drum, vibrating the power of the river.

"(Tibetan) The Junba people started fishing very early, because there is little arable land here, so they can only fish."

Baima introduced shyly to the camera.

A new boat is launched and once the fishing begins.

The familiar smell makes fishermen feel happy.

On the river, fishermen cast their nets and hummed Tibetan tunes.

It formed a certain resonance with the turbulent river.

The fish caught today are sold to the fish market in Lasa.

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Looking at the fishing boat made of cowhide was an eye-opener for Xiao Zhu.

There is no need for a thick bottom plate, and only relying on the elasticity of the cowhide itself can support two people to move freely on the river.

This ancient technology seems quite magical to Xiao Zhu.

After all, without studying physics, it is still a very miraculous thing to be able to run across the river with cowhide alone.

This gave Xiao Zhu the idea of ​​going to Tibet to have a look.

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From the perspective of people on the plateau, gods live in every river.

There are also fish in every river.

But there was not a single fish in a river called Qujiang.

The Qujiang River is winding and not as wide as the Lancang River.

It is more like a ray of color in the mountains, with ups and downs.

There are waterwheels all over the Qujiang River.

These ancient waterwheels are propelled by the river water.

Legend has it that because of the construction of waterwheels, the officials ordered all fish to be prohibited from entering, so as not to hurt their lives.

So no fish so far.

What is the purpose of the waterwheel that is so inspiring and mobilizing people to keep it?

"Yeah, what is it for?"

Xiao Zhu outside the field asked the same question.

Ren Duo and his wife have to saw a section of cypress at home every once in a while.

Place the cypress logs under the waterwheel.

The waterwheel drives the cypress to wipe off the mud on the slate.

Put the cypress mud into the special square template to fix the shape.

After the cypress bricks were dried, Renduo began to mix various medicinal materials.

The main materials are najib, saffron, musk and so on.

These three are relatively expensive medicinal materials.

No matter how expensive the price is, all three must be available.

The medicinal powder is stirred and mixed with cypress bricks, and they are squeezed into lines with tools made of ox horn.

It takes many years to practice the kung fu of one extrusion.

This kind of thing with the taste of sunshine and running water on the plateau is Tibetan incense.

Some of the smells are bitter and some are sweet.

Just like wine, a good wine is neither sweet nor bitter.

A good smell has a purifying effect on the human mind.

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See the tedious and complicated production process.

At this moment, Xiao Zhu has developed a strong interest in this magical Tibetan incense.

Slender and long Tibetan incense points and then, the smoke is lingering.

The scent being described adds a touch of mystery.

He couldn't wait to take out his mobile phone to see if there was such a so-called Tibetan incense to buy online.

A search really has.

Origin: Jiangnan.

emmmmm...Xiao Zhu stopped paying.

Or wait until you have time to go to Tibet to buy it.

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Tibetan incense is mainly used to worship Buddha.

Dangqu, who is over forty years old, is the abbot of Minzhulin Temple.

He is also the inheritor of Tibetan incense in the temple.

The Tibetan incense here has a mysterious formula and a more special purpose.

Minzhulin Temple has a Buddhist academy, which attracts many young monks to study here.

Young monks test out wisdom through vigorous debate.

The courses in the temple are full.

But there is one class that will ease them up.

Making Tibetan incense is like an extracurricular activity.

Every place has different wisdom in making Tibetan incense. Only when the finished incense is approved by the old monks can it enter the final stage.

Chanting!

Blessing!

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wow!

Xiao Zhu's eyes widened.

Still need to support!

Is this a buff?

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As soon as the scene changed, the young monk Tenzin Lama left the temple with a bucket.

In the wind and sand, he crossed a desert.

Go find a special kind of sand.

A soft stone was unearthed from a mountain beside the Yarlung Zangbo River.

The retrieved white sand is dyed in various allegorical colors in the temple.

Burn incense and chant scriptures.

The young monk is about to study the most important lesson of the year with his teacher.

On the floor of the main hall, the monks used the lines of dyed lacquer to outline the patterns with strict and complex proportions.

Colored gravel spilled from fingertips.

The image in my mind began to enter the painting.

More than 40 monks concentrating on building a mysterious building in four different locations.

The building built gradually with fine sand is called a mandala in Buddhism.

It is the residence of the Buddha, the city of the Buddha, and the universe of the Buddha.

It is said that the Buddha also painted with his disciples in the same way.

This colorful world is made of gravel.

The finished mandala is waiting for the start of the Sagdawa festival.

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Before Xiao Zhu recovered from the wonder of Tibetan incense, he saw something even more miraculous in a blink of an eye.

From a close look, it looks like gravel, but from a distance, it looks like a colorful painting.

Without the help of an aerial camera, Xiao Zhu is very curious about how these monks completed such a neat and rigorous painting.

Could it be said that there is really a miraculous Buddhadharma on the plateau?

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Sagdawa takes place in the entire April of the Tibetan calendar.