Where is Yadong County, Xigaze City, Tibet?

Located in Yadong County, Xigaze City, Tibet

Yadong County is located in the south of Tibet, at the southern foot of the middle Himalayas, and is one of the border counties in Xizang Autonomous Region. It covers an area of 4,276 square kilometers. Cultivated land area 1.2 million mu, forest area of 240,000 mu. It is 390 kilometers away from Shigatse City and 580 kilometers away from Lhasa, the capital of the autonomous region. On the whole, Yadong County has beautiful scenery, mild climate, rich water resources and rich products, and is known as "Little Jiangnan in Tibet".

Xiasima Town is located in a ravine, surrounded by mountains and waters. Social service facilities are complete. Parry Town is 4360 meters above sea level and is known as "the tallest town in the world". Residential buildings and Xiasima Town have different styles, both of which are stone bungalows.

Yadong is a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral county. Crops mainly include winter wheat, spring wheat, highland barley, peas and potatoes. Animal husbandry mainly includes yak, bull, ox, sheep, goat, horse, donkey, mule and pig. The main economic forests are apples and plums. The forest coverage rate is about 3.8%. The timber accumulation is 3.8 million cubic meters.

Yadong county is not only rich in natural tourism resources, but also has humanistic tourism resources with great historical value. There are mainly "one spring and two temples, one lake and one mountain, one grass and one forest", namely Kangbu Hot Spring, Dongga Temple, Gaju Temple, Duoqing Lake, Lari Snow Mountain in Zhuo Lin, Parry Grassland and Lower Yadong Primitive Forest.

administrative division

Yadong County is located in the south of Xizang Autonomous Region, at the southern foot of the middle Himalayan Mountains. The total area is 4306 square kilometers. administrative division

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County People's Government in Xiama Town Xiama Neighborhood Committee

Yadong County governs 2 towns and 5 townships: Xiasima Town and Parry Town; Upper Yadong Township, Lower Yadong Township, Kangbu Township, Duna Township and Jiru Township. * * * There are 25 village committees (neighborhood committees).

Pagri town

The total population is 2272.

Xiasima town

The total population is 2783.

Duina town

The total population is 2399.

Jiru town

The total population is 768.

Kangbu town

The total population is 992.

Shangyadong town

The total population is 1454.

physical geography

Yadong county belongs to Himalayan landform. The average altitude is 3500 meters, which is wide and high in the north and narrow and low in the south. The overall landform of Yadong is a ravine. There is a piedmont impact plain between Duna Township and Parry Town, with an area of about 1000 square kilometers.

Zhuomulari Snow Mountain

Zhuomulari Snow Mountain is located in Parry Town, 50 kilometers away from the county seat. The mountain is about 7400 meters high, which is a fault-block mountain system composed of early Paleozoic strata and Himalayan granite, forming a huge natural mountain pass. Because Zhuomulari Snow Mountain Range runs through the middle of the county, Yadong County is high in the north and low in the south, the county is naturally divided into two distinct geomorphic units. Zhuomulari Snow Mountain is famous at home and abroad, and it is a good place for adventure tourism and scientific investigation tourism.

There are 34 lakes in Yadong County, the largest of which is Duoqing Lake, which is located in Duna Township, Yadong County, 60 kilometers away from Yadong County. Its total water area is more than10.5 million mu, and the natural pollution-free fish reserves are more than/0.5 million tons. There are Tsona Lake, Qicuo Lake, Dongkan Lake, Guore Lake, Linxi Lake and Kongming Lake, which decorate Yadong more beautifully.

Because of the disparity in altitude, two completely different climates are formed with Pa as the boundary. The altitude in the north is more than 4300 meters, the growing period is about 150 days, and the frost period is 280 days. The precipitation is 4 10 mm, and the elevation in the south drops sharply, with an average elevation of 2800 meters. The climate is humid and the forest is dense. The growth period is 2 10 day, the frost period is 160 day, and the annual precipitation is 873mm.

Natural disasters include earthquakes, floods, snowstorms, mudslides, landslides, droughts, hail and so on.

Mineral resources mainly include iron, crystal and peat. Wild animal resources mainly include red panda, leopard, long-tailed langur, Bengal tiger, roe deer, wild donkey, lynx, bear, otter, fox, black-necked crane, yellow and white duck and so on.

Wild plant resources mainly include larch, Qiao Song, birch, hemlock, yew, spruce, fir, cypress, poplar, Populus tibetica, Coptidis Rhizoma, Gastrodia elata, Cordyceps, Saussurea involucrata, Radix Dipsaci, Radix Hedysari, Radix Codonopsis, Fritillaria, auricularia auricula, mushroom, rhododendron, wild rose, wild lily, winter jasmine, pomegranate flower and wild grape.

The development of history

Yadong, in Tibetan, means swirling valley, rapids and deep valleys, also known as Zhuomu.

Yadong, which belongs to Parison in history, is just a small mountain village in Zhuomushan Valley. 1888 Britain invaded Tibet, and Yadong was forcibly turned into a commercial port by the British Empire.

1June, 960, Yadong County People's Government was established, and it was subordinate to the institutions in Gyangze region.

1964 In May, the Gyangze region merged with the Shigatse region, and Yadong was placed under the Shigatse region until now. The county government is stationed in Xia Sima.

Local customs and practices

Yadong, Tibetan table wood, which means steep valley, is located on the southern slope of the Himalayas. Yadong terrain is high in the north and low in the south, and the whole county extends from Paris to the south, showing a strip-shaped zone with a wide north and a narrow south. Due to the unique geographical environment, cremation, a funeral custom different from other places in Tibet, has been formed. According to local people, cremation has been chosen for a long time because there are few baldness around Yadong Mountain. Cremation is an advanced way of burial among Tibetans in Yadong. Because the burial method has a high status in the minds of the masses, its ceremony is also very grand. Based on what I have seen and heard, this paper gives a brief introduction to the funeral process in Yadong.

I. Disposal of dead bodies

As soon as a person dies, his family will immediately send someone to inform his relatives and neighbors. At the same time, he will send an immediate family member to the temple he believes in for divination and divination to determine the date of cremation and the length of time the deceased stays at home. He can't be sure until someone asks for divination. The next step is to prepare for the disposal of the body. Neighbors who are closely related to the host family will use warm water (warm water contains Tibetan medicine such as saffron). Scrubbing for the dead, then filling the gaps between the eyes, ears and nose of the dead with fresh butter, overlapping the hands and feet of the dead, tying them into the shape of a fetus from head to toe, then putting them into a coffin (the coffin is a square made of wood), putting the coffin on the floor of a room, and the room itself is filled with butter lamps. During these three days, the lamas chanted scriptures day and night, and the bodies were disposed of.

Second, the specific process

The remains of cremators are usually parked at home for three days. Two days ago, the main family guarded the dead. The night before cremation, at least one person came to every household in the village. Everyone sat in the dead man's house all night with a serious expression, just drinking and drinking tea silently. At about four o'clock in the morning, everyone began to eat breakfast. At about seven o'clock, the host family presented Hada to the deceased. Then every household in the village came to offer Hada to the dead. After offering Hada, four young and strong men raised their coffins and walked to the crematorium. Relatives escorted the deceased out of the gate.

When you arrive at the crematorium, you can see a tower-shaped building made of stone. The deceased was placed on the pile of "well" firewood from the tower mouth, and his head was turned around. The living Buddha painted eight diagrams on the flat ground in front of the dead, made a fire, and recited scriptures while burning. Cremation began at the same time. After the burning, the funeral also came to an end, that is, they did not go to the grave to sweep the grave, but only read the middle and small schools according to their own situation. Three days later, the immediate family of the deceased sent someone to clean up the charred ashes and open the tower door. According to the footprints left on the ashes, we can infer the reincarnation of the deceased. For example, the dog paw prints left on the ashes indicate that the deceased was reincarnated as a dog, and so on. At this point, the cremation ceremony is all over.

General situation of economy

Tourism is called smokeless industry, and the tourism in Yadong County is still a virgin land. The existence of the object of tourism resources lays a foundation and provides favorable conditions for the start and development of tourism. The six elements of tourism are food, shelter, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment. Let farmers and herdsmen actively participate in the tourism service industry, such as sightseeing agriculture, flower planting, fruit picking, family hotels, farmhouse music and other individual business models, integrate resources to develop tourist villages and towns, increase the training of directors and managers of tourism enterprises in Yadong, establish a good image of tourism enterprises, let them truly appreciate the benefits brought by tourism, and actively guide the development of tourism will definitely boost. The development of tourism and economy has invisibly increased people's income, promoted friendly exchanges inside and outside the region, and made people around the world know about Yadong, which has also gone to the world.

Yadong's specialties are rich and unique, especially salmon, fungus and wool. In addition, there are countless medicinal materials, wild vegetables, beef jerky (Parry yak) and ghee in Yadong. The processing, packaging and sales of these links can not only bring convenience to tourists, but also increase people's income.

tourist resources

(1) Places of interest: Parry Town is located in the middle of Yadong County, with an altitude of 4,360 meters. Known as the World Mall, it guards the Yajiang Gorge and overlooks the Bengal Plain. It has been a military center in southern Tibet since ancient times. 1990 in may, the cultural relics investigation team of the autonomous region discovered five ancient tombs and several scattered cultural relics here. Among them, there are 4 tombs of the Tubo Dynasty and 86 tombs. Known as:

① Grave group of Gelie Mountain: (located at the southern foot of the famous "goddess peak" in the northeast of Ba grassland, at the foot of Zhuomulari Snow Mountain, there are 53 tombs and 3 sacrificial pits).

(2) Tombs of the pastoral site in Dare: (located in Parry Grassland, east and west mountains, 8 kilometers south of Parry Town, with 13 tombs).

③ Tomb of Sadu Village: (located at the hillside platform hill 10 km south of Pariya, the platform is condescending, facing Yadong Canyon, and laya Highway passes through the platform).

④ Burials in Parry Town: (* * * There are 6 tombs, which are distributed in the north and south around Parry Town, about 1 respectively. On the grassland of 5 kilometers, there are piles of earth and stone)

The discovery of these graves can be confirmed by historical records. Because the Tibetan tombs in Bali are located in the southernmost border area of Tibet. Therefore, its significance and value are more important than the Tubo tombs found in the hinterland. It provides valuable information for studying the unified territory of the ancient Tubo dynasty.

In April of 20021year, Yadong County ranked 56th in the list of the most beautiful villages in China 100.

In 200211year1October, the Central Civilization Office confirmed the list of cities nominated by national civilized cities in the creation cycle of 20021-2023, and Yadong County was on the list.

In June 2020, 1 1, the list of the most beautiful counties in China in 2020 was released, and Yadong County was on the list.

In June 5438 +2020 10, Yadong County won the title of National Model City (County) with Double Support in 2020.

In August of 20 19, the list of comprehensive demonstration counties of rural e-commerce in 20 19 was released, and Yadong County was on the list.

On February 20 18, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission named Yadong County as the sixth batch of national demonstration zones for national unity and progress.

20 18 12, Yadong County was awarded the title of the second batch of national demonstration cities and counties for ecological civilization construction by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

In September of 20 18, the list of comprehensive demonstration counties of rural e-commerce in 20 18 was released, and Yadong County was on the list.

In February of 20 16, Yadong County was included in the list of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education in China in 20 15.

On June 5438+ 10, 2009, Yadong County was included in the second national civilized villages and towns list.