Ganzi History

Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province is located on the southeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, in the western part of Sichuan Province, and is commonly known as the Kumba Region or Kang District. It is located at 98°-102°E longitude and 28°-34°N latitude. It borders Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture and Ya'an area in Sichuan Province to the east, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province and Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province to the south, and Changdu area in Tibet Autonomous Region along the Jinsha River in the west, and Yushu and Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures in Qinghai Province to the north.

Ganzi, the ancient Qiang land, Tang belongs to the Tubo, is the main part of the Tibetan region of Kham, in 1950 became the earliest in the new China to implement national autonomy of a state, is the key to the economic and cultural exchanges between China and Tibet.

Autonomous state jurisdiction Kangding, Danba, Luding, Jiulong, Daofu, Fuhuo, Sedar, Ganzi, Baiyu, Xinlong, Dege, Shiqiu, Yajiang, Litang, Inaccessible, Xiangcheng, Derong, Batang **** eighteen counties. With an area of more than 153,000 square kilometers and a total population of about 900,000, it is a multi-ethnic settlement area with Tibetans as the main ethnic group. The state capital, Kangding, is the political, economic and cultural center of the state.

Numerous scenic spots and cultural relics and monuments are important tourism resources in the state. Gongga Mountain, "the top of Shu Mountain", is the eleventh highest peak in the world. Gonggar glacier has been valued by scientists. Gongga Mountain has been open to the public since 1980, there have been the United States, Japan, Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Canada and other countries of the mountaineering team to climb. Luding Hailuogou Glacier Forest Park, Kangding Happy Horse Mountain and Muge Tso, are all famous scenic tourist areas. Heluogou Glacier Forest Park, located on the eastern slope of Gongga Mountain, has low altitude modern glaciers, large ice waterfalls up to 1,100 meters wide and with a drop of 1,080 meters, and a large flow of boiling, hot, warm and cold spring water. The ditch concentrates wild plants from subtropical to frigid zone, and there are more than 400 kinds of wild animals, 28 kinds of precious animals belonging to national protection. Since the opening of Hailuogou Park, Chinese and foreign tourists have been coming in an endless stream. Luding Hualinping, was the ancient road of Sichuan and Tibet on the town, the soldiers must fight for the pass, but also the ancient Yazhou to the arrow furnace must pass through the place, so far the ancient camp enemy disk is still the same as in the old days, the ancient road left behind on the "abduction nest" recounts the poor backpacker's pain. World-famous Luding Wire Bridge, after liberation by the State Council as a key cultural relics protection units, several times to pull money for maintenance, and the establishment of a revolutionary cultural relics exhibition hall, exhibiting the Red Army bridge historical materials. Every year many Chinese and foreign tourists come to visit, the state cadres, the masses, especially young people to visit and receive education.

Danba, Kangding, Yajiang and other counties, many villages, cottages retained a lot of ancient stone masonry high towers, showing the ancient Qiang migration and flow. The ancient city of Tibetan culture, Dege Printing Scripture Institute, has a relatively rich and complete version of the Tibetan book.

Ganzi Prefecture is the main Tibetan, Tibetan, Han, Yi, Qiang, Hui and other 22 ethnic groups inhabited areas, has a long history, splendid ethnic culture and colorful folk customs. Dege in the state and Tibet Lhasa, Gannan Xiahe is known as the Tibetan area of the three major ancient cultural centers, is one of the birthplaces of Tibetan culture. The simple and heavy folk customs, Tibetan opera of various genres, different styles of potsherds, stringed and tap dances, unique Tibetan paintings and sculptures, and the magical and mysterious Tibetan Buddhism, etc., make the unique ethnic traditional culture of Ganzi Prefecture covered with a layer of mysterious color, which is of interest to the world's people.

Magical natural scenery, profound and profound Kham culture and colorful ethnic customs. Ganzi Prefecture is located in the Sichuan Basin and the Tibetan Plateau on the transition zone of the Hengduan Mountains in the middle part of the geographic location of the special, ridge and valley height difference, the lowest elevation of 1,000 meters, the highest peak of Mount Gongga elevation of 7,556 meters, the difference between the height of up to 6,556 meters (Dadaoguan Canyon to the main peak of the Gongga Mountain axis of the horizontal distance of only 29 kilometers), Jinshajiang River, Yalongjiang River, the Dadaoguan River from north to south through the whole territory, the formation of a unique topography and landforms and diversified ecological environment. Due to the large height difference, the vertical belt spectrum (*** seven) from the subtropical river valley to the alpine permafrost belt has been formed here, and unique natural ecological landscapes have also been formed. East of the Gongga Mountain as the center of the Gongga Mountain Scenic Spot, the region covers the Kangding, Luding, Jiulong County, an area of more than 11,000 square kilometers, is China's largest scenic spot, is a set of modern glaciers, snowy peaks, hot springs, primeval forests, grasslands, alpine lakes, open springs Huahua, ancient glacier geomorphology and a strong Kham Tibetan nationalities customs as a whole of the state-level scenic spots. The area within the Heluogou scenic area to the east of Asia, low latitude, low altitude glaciers, high temperature boiling springs, primitive forests as the main features, 1080 meters high, 1100 meters wide ice waterfalls are rare in the world; Happy Valley due to a song of "Kanding Love Song" famous overseas, alpine lakes Mugu Tso Scenic Area, Wushuhai Scenic Area, people in the sea scenic area, the closest to metropolitan areas of the Tapong grassland scenic area, the western slopes of the Gonggar Mountain Gongba Glacier, Bawang Glacier are Gongga Mountain Scenic Spot in a pearl. South there is a place called "three father main god mountain", it is by three independent and "pin" shape arrangement of the three snow mountains (elevation 6032 meters, 5958 meters, 5958 meters) composition, three god mountain between the wide valley flows on the meandering brook, the brook Through the ice waterfalls and snow peaks and glaciers connected to the mountains inlaid with a beautiful sea, primitive forests like guards generally guarding the sacred mountains, every autumn, thousands of miles of mountains a golden, 1929 Austrian-American Joseph Locke (a biologist, geographer, explorer) to come here, he saw the "this is not yet known to the outsiders of the world's most beautiful snow-capped mountains, this is China's most beautiful snow-capped mountains, this is China's most beautiful snow-capped mountains, this is China's most beautiful snow-capped mountains, this is China's most beautiful snow-capped mountains, this is the most beautiful snow-capped mountains. beautiful snow-capped mountains, here is the holy land in the hearts of Chinese Tibetans", and from 1929 to 1932 published articles and pictures in the American Geographic Magazine, introducing this "Shangri-La" holy land to the world, which is Yading; Kannan Shangri-La Tourism Area centered on Yading is the core of the core area of Shangri-La. Shangri-La core area in the core, its main attractions are China's largest ancient ice cap Hazi Mountain, the mysterious Ghenye Mountain, the magical Tsop Lake and Chaluo gap fountains, the Sun Valley, Nidin Gorge, the long youth of the Ker Monastery, etc., here is still the Batang strings, the hometown of the Reba. While Dege's New Luhai/Queer Mountain scenic spot is shaped like a yaoji, the place where the lion Dawangling-King Gesar's consort bathed and groomed. Ganzi Prefecture is a Tibetan as the main ethnic minority autonomous prefecture, is an important part of China's Tibetan area, the region is China's early frequent migration of ethnic groups "ethnic corridor" in the heart of the region, but also the mainland to Tibet, the transportation hub and the center of Sino-Tibetan trade. In the process of long-term historical development, a variety of cultures collide with each other here, absorbing each other, thus forming a distinctive feature of both the same Tibetan culture **** sex of other Tibetan areas, but also has its own historical imprint of cultural diversity. Here there is the Tibetan three cultural center of the first Dege print scripture institute, there are rooted in the land of kangba world's longest heroic epic "ridge - gesar king biography" and its hero gesar's hometown of asu, there is a complete maintenance of the traditional customs of the danba jiajun style, there is the "kangding love song" of the hometown of kangding and the "tea and horse exchange market" formation of the potlatch culture; If the Potala Palace building is a model of the world's architecture, then the homes of the Khamber can be called a work of art in the building, known as the "Khamber business card", Khamber homes diversified styles, some heavy on the outside, and some heavy on the interior, such as into the Daofu homes have entered the palace of the sense of the Danba homes are harmonized with the environment, there is a "harmony between heaven and man". "heaven and man" feeling, Danba ancient watchtower is a miracle in the history of architecture; state more than 500 covering the five major sects of Tibetan Buddhism temple harmony *** place, *** seek development, become a unique Tibetan Buddhist culture in the region of Kham, eight state temple, more Qing temple, sip and drag the temple, dingqing temple, long youth kol temple are in the Tibetan region enjoys a high reputation The temple; it is the Khamba people created the culture of this holy land, it is the tough Khamba man and the beautiful and sentimental Khamba girl wrote the story of this land.