Kangding covers an area of 1.14 million square kilometers, jurisdiction over three towns, nineteen townships, with a total population of 10.3 million, is mainly Tibetan, Han, Hui, Yi, Qiang and other multi-ethnic settlement county.
Kangding, the hometown of love songs, tea and horse trading town, the birthplace of potshandle culture, is the Gongga Mountain National Scenic Area, a pearl, both important tourist destinations, but also the state's travel transit. The main scenic spots are Muguetso, Happy Horse Mountain, Tagong Grassland, Lotus Lake and so on.
Slippery Happy Horse Mountain
A song of slippery "Kang Ding Love Song" famous in China and abroad, so slippery Kang Ding City, Happy Horse Mountain makes people infinite fascination. Now "Kang Ding Love Song" sung throughout the world, in the first western China Kang Ding Love Song Festival, "Kang Ding Love Song" deservedly selected as "China's first love song", at the same time, "Kang Ding Love Song" was selected as the UNESCO recommended to the world of China's only one folk song, become one of the world's top ten classic love songs; and has been beyond the world and race to become the world's human beings. World and race, become the voice of the human heart on earth, was sent to the human spacecraft, as the human search for the universe of life greetings sound. Kangding Love Song" is a beautiful tune, fast-paced, plain and simple, sincere, elegant and vulgar **** appreciation, is an ode to love, a picture of style. Countless people in ancient and modern China and abroad, because of the "Kang Ding Love Song" and Kang Ding has formed an unbreakable love affair. World-famous tenor singer Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti, China's vocal artists Central Conservatory of Music, the former vice president, Professor Yu Xuanxuan, etc. to become "Kangding: Honorary Citizen". So, who is the author of "Kangding Love Song"? Ganzi Newspaper had a reward of ten thousand dollars to seek the author of "Kangding Love Song", causing concern and curiosity of people inside and outside of the state, with a variety of opinions, and eventually became a mystery. But one thing is certain: it originated from the outskirts of the city of Kangding, Yala Township folk songs in the "yo-yo tune", also known as "running horse yo-yo mountain", is a folk song, in the war period, by professional musicians to collect, processing, singing after the spread of the country. Zhang big brother, Li big sister is indeed a person? There have also been said to be different, arguing. But there are also people in Happy Valley to find out a lot of Zhang, Li, big sister to talk about love traces of love. There are people ask, so "Kang Ding love song) is a Chinese song or Tibetan song? It should be said that it is Kangding Tibetan and Chinese cultural convergence and collision results, such as the song Zhang, Li sister may be Tibetans, may be Chinese, or "unity". This is the unique regional culture of Kang Ding has bred a strange flower. From the Manchurian Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, every year on the thirteenth day of the fifth lunar month will be held in this race, so called Running Horse Hill; and the eighth day of the fourth lunar month (Buddha's Birthday), for the Khamdan Lama Temple's ban on fasting (commonly known as eating dumb fasting), the Khamdan people have to turn the big four-square, out of the East Pass, climbed the Running Horse Hill, over the Princess Bridge, through the King Kong, the South without the two temples, the upper Zi ear slope, over the ridge down to the north door back to the city, so it is also known as the turn of the mountain will be. Later, the government merged the two festivals for the Kangding Happy Horse Mountain will be, the statutory three-day vacation.
There are three trails to Happy Valley, each with its own interest. From the East Pass on the mountain that way, you will see some strange shaped stone, hanging on the steep rock of the square boulder is the "baby stone gate". Across the stone gate, there is a high standing stone column like a thumb, called "steelyards Kachok" in Tibetan, steelyards, stone, Kachok, is the meaning of thank you. As if in the welcome. Turned to the cool stone turtle backed Dongguan Pavilion. In the hexagonal pavilion in the distance, the Yala Snow Mountain like white cap and white robe of the immortal Weng crystal bright attractive, near the Guo Da mountain high in the clouds, the birth of the "Kang Ding Love Song" Yala River water show mountain green. Upward to go, you can see "fishing", "rhinoceros moon" and other stone scenery to let you have fun, will eliminate the fatigue of the journey. From the middle of this road, the stone staircase will let you step by step, the mountain path in the pine and fir dense forests around the corner, the sound of the waves and birdsong, so that a person refreshed. Climbing upward with the path, fiercely see the flying clouds gallery across the mountains, on the steps, a pair of stone lions perched in front of the smile to welcome visitors. Into the promenade, sit down for a nap next to the railing, elegant so that you lose the tiredness, overlooking the furnace city new posture, skyscrapers and "four bridges lying wave", under the eyes of the prosperity, so that people feel the city's changes, and from this upward, the stone ladder trail is still winding from the secluded up to the top. West of the road from the Princess Bridge up, halfway up the mountainside there is a Wing Snow Building for you to rest and enjoy, leaning on the fence to lift the eyes, the ancient furnace city to go out of the Guanwai Tea and Horse Road curved in the mountains, today's Sichuan-Tibet National Highway meandering in its left. At the time of winter and spring, the southwest mountains and rivers carved with ice, if you enjoy the snow poetry, there will be a spirit, so that you make a good chapter, or in this chanting generations of snow poetry, will be in a good state of mind from this not far up to the head of the Happy Horse Mountain. Now, has built the Happy Mountain cable car, you can take the cable car up the mountain, from the cable car can overlook the whole picture of Kang Ding City.
Slipping Kangding City
Kangding City is three mountains kindly embraced, the east side of this mountain is the fairy mountain, the Tibetan name Ram then, the mountain god is the big sister of Mount Everest, Zazhi Zerrenma nymphs; the Qing Dynasty Jiala Wang Ming Zheng Tusi year-round horse races, and from then on people called Happy Valley Mountain. Angli northeast of this mountain is called GuoDaShan, stretches west of this mountain called ZiEr slope, slope peaks called Ali BuguShan. Three mountains behind the Yala snow mountain, Gongga mountain, folding more mountains closely guarded. Kangding City in the mountains in the arch of survival, the city ran south of the Fold River, the city north of the flow to the Yala River, at the foot of the GuoDa confluence after embracing the east is called the Kangding River or furnace water.
In recent times, Kangding City landscape is summarized in ten scenes: hot springs bathing in the moon; Guo Da stop cloud; Yaga snow: four bridges snow waves; four temple cloud forest; irrigation top of the sudden spring; Le top chanting; Zi ear woodcutting song; Tendu waterfalls: fairy sea clarification wave.
Kangding has mountains and water, is a landscape city, the town was built on both sides of the river, people want to interact with the emergence of the bridge. In ancient times, Kangding City on the river is a "slip tube cable bridge", later is a wooden bridge, built in the Qing Dynasty as a corridor bridge, and then a reinforced concrete bridge, fifty years ago, many writers and writers have chanted this "four bridges Xue Lang". Today's bridge is nearly two decades of new repairs, folded on both sides of the river on both sides of the highway on both sides of the river market, housing decoration, all different styles of Tibetan craft landscaping, coupled with the four bridges of different styles, you will certainly feel the new temperament of the city of Khamjeong. At night, this area is brilliant, colorful, as if walking in the fairy palace jade que. Kangding ancient city, was the king of Jiala Mingzheng Tusi's regiment, stagecoach pots and pans set up a place, all the way Tusi on the Beijing tribute to Hajj centralized. Ming and Qing Dynasty became the South Tea Horse Road on the collection and distribution of tea and horse towns, successive generations of the central government in order to "defend Tibet Ankang", often military brigades, garrison, ministers must pass through the place. At the end of the thirties of the last century, West Kham province, Kangding is the capital of the province, the fifties has been the capital of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Bathing in natural hot springs, a unique flavor. Kangding urban and rural hot springs, Yala river through the northern suburbs of about four kilometers of the two-way bridge hot springs is a strong cure, vacation and leisure places. Qing dynasty qianlong when the arrow furnace co-conspirator fuzhaoxiong see here hot springs pleasant, repair Jane sun bath bath, the city people also often go, in order to bathers rest, repair a pavilion, named Wangjiang building. In the Republic of China, Liu Wenhui and expand the bath, increase the building, tea garden, flower garden, for visitors to drink and feast, the Kuomintang patriarch Yu Youren personally titled "and the point of the building", adding color to the landscape. Nowadays, the two bridges have been remodeled, pavilions, a new look, with baths, restaurants, cafes, elegant rooms, kiosks, and the point of restoration of the building to add food, lodging, bathing, fun interest.
Picturesque Muguetso
Savage Sea, called "Muguetso" in Tibetan, is located in the northeastern foothills of the Hengduan Mountains, belonging to the Daxue Mountains. Scenic area of 35 kilometers long, 10 kilometers wide, a total area of 350 square kilometers, elevation of 3200-3780 meters, by the azalea gorges, Fang Lawn, the seven-color sea, medicine pool boiling springs, pool fairyland, savage sea and the Red Sea grasslands and other major natural scenic areas.
The Wild Man Sea Scenic and Tourist Area is an important part of the national Gongga Mountain Scenic and Historic Spot. Here, the snowy grasslands, hot springs and lakes, waterfalls and blue pools, rhododendron mountains, strange peaks and rocks and a lot of wild vegetation.