Another distinctive category is the knife class. Decorative knife practical value here is obvious. Knife class can be divided into decorative arts knives, new knives and ancient knives. One of the most valuable is that many of the merchants from the remote Tibetan herders to buy the hands of the ancient knives, they generally have experienced at least two generations, from the scabbard, knife handle to the blade, has a long list of stories to tell, and perhaps soul-stirring, and perhaps Cantabile, such as weep. New knives are a modern technology, large-scale production is made in line with its style of Tibetan herdsmen living needs. Swords and knives in general can be divided into two kinds of functions, Shigatse, and Kham two main origin. As for the craft knife, mainly for its ornamental to get people's collections, practical greatly reduced. ● 105
As for the pendant: mascots, totem, and instruments used in Tibetan Buddhism, it is necessary to use specialized personnel to naming and classification. From the material point of view, animal bones can be divided into categories, metal, ore type, and silk types.
According to the operators here say that more goods from Myanmar, India and Nepal. In fact, the more value to the collection should be the individual items when the real estate, the commercial nature of the production itself, the lower the more meaningful. So, incidentally, a westbound travel shopping criteria: the general price of these souvenirs are not high.
And then looked at under the prairie sun and Castle Peak; ● 107 and then looked out the day, the final color-hwan Qinghai Lake, ● 108 we left the Bird Island should be a place along the north west bank of Lake Qinghai, after Jier Meng, Quan Ji 2 small town, across the Xining to Golmud railway line, re-routing of 315 national highway, straight to take gangca. We check over, around 22:00, there will be a train from Xining, Golmud bound Gangcha docking station a few minutes, we will have the opportunity to spend the night in the desert in western Qinghai, Tibet, to reach into the last stop: Golmud.
Suddenly the night came around, we do not trust their own common sense, saying that long before it tries without sunlight. ● 109 days and the earth in a horizontal line in the same area, day and night are the sudden, the sudden go, their boundaries clearly and fragile. Roadbed edge occasionally to see tension in the shadow of the road construction workers, they should bring these new and newly paved black road-pei was perfect for the next few days, be proud of something that presents all of the effort. We also met a group of crafts slightly higher after drinking a number of workers in the middle of the road bike floating, singing their songs, give vent to the middle of this vast world, no one can talk of the loneliness. The two traveled together and the line of worship team, in an increasingly concentrated where the law of the night to stand, looking. They are to the north Gangcha Odera, or to the lake east of the Tar? Are likely to ... ...
Like holy lakes in northern Tibet Namco. Every Year of the Ram, both inside and outside Tibet, tens of thousands of pilgrims flock to the holy lake, 1920 square kilometers of Nam Co, a week hiking around the lake need 10 days to catch a yak to go more than a month like this knock the life-sized long head of the lake turn, lap had lasted for three months! What not?
Riding on the night's quiet, and I'm companions Let's talk about Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan mystical, as well as followers of perseverance, everyone, they were pleasantly surprised. Because often heard, but now also witnessed further confirms his surprised.
20:30 PM, we went to other parts of Beijing University County: gangca. Turn off 12 km south of the dirt road, through the Qinghai Lake Farm. All the way empty mine, and always make us feel not taken the wrong road by now. Master Huang has never gone through this section of track, when we will be abandoned from a bridge trembled惊惊through, I really think that we are not Quzuo trains, but to the construction of the railway station. 21:00 PM, we finally Qinghai Lake from the south wall and then turn west off period, from the inside to enter a courtyard. We are pleased that jumped out of cars View: This is really a night in the train station, although not a trace of light, but the piece of legislation in the east of the station license, the gangca words and other can be found by the camera's light to see clearly . ● 113 north, a row of houses should be a waiting room, ticket window, what the west, towers like a building, the top-level window revealing a bright white light, some of our gaffes to break into the door to visit. There is the original core of the station: vehicle control room. The railway staff on duty is very warmly greeted us: come sit in the shade bar!
We almost forget that bid farewell to our driver! Because the platform back to the west, the sky clouds Chiang Kai-shek back to the vague shapes of the final, beautiful afterglow are diarrhea dyed a brilliant final, will set the contours of nearby railway clearly portrayed among the Atrium. There will be we will go into the direction. ● 111
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