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Qinghai & Gannan Area

Qinghai & Gannan location in China

It refers to Tibetan habitation within Qinghai province, a concentration of Anduo Tibetan. Qinghai Lake, Ta’er Temple and Chaka saline lake are the main tourism recourses. Vast grasslands and numbers of lakes, especially Kekexili no-man area, are the main breeding places for Tibetan antelopes. Population density of Qinghai Area is quite small. Snow Mountains bring up signifying rivers of China, of which titled as a cradle to rivers. (No Tibet-entry permit is needed for foreigners)

Qinghai Lake

Qinghai LakeThe Qinghai Lake was known in the past as West Sea, Immortal Sea, Fresh Water Sea and Xianbei Qiang Sea. In Mongolian it is called Koro Nor, and in Tibetan Coiwenbo. During the Northern Wei period (386-534), the lake got the name Qinghai, but the present name Qinghai Lake was not used until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It is after this lake that the province is named.
Qinghai Lake, situated at 3,194 meters above sea level, is the biggest salt water lake in China; according to the most recent survey, it covers 4,473 square kilometers with a water volume of 85 billion cubic meters. The lake, 360 kilometers in circumference, lies in the northeast of the Sanjiangyuan region, between Mt. Hurhambudai and Mt. Qilian. There were once 108 rivers feeding this landlocked lake, but now only 40 still empty into it, including the Buh, Heima, Ikuran, Jiquan, Daotang, Ganzi and Hairag. The Buh, the longest of the lake tributaries, drains an area of 14,384 square kilometers, representing 48.5 percent of its total 29,661-square-kilometer drainage area. In the surrounding vicinity there are over 20 minor lakes each covering at least 0.3 square kilometers. The lake borders on Gonghe County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Tianjun County, Haixi Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture to the south and Gangcha an Haiyan counties as well as Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The agglomeration of water bodies gives the lae area a wet climate, where herbage thrives. Ten ethnic groups are represented in the area’s 80,000-strong population, among them Tibetan, Han, Mongol, Hui, Tu and Sala.

Taer Monastery

Taer MonasteryLocated at Lushaer Township, in Huangzhong County, 25 kilometers south of Xining city, Qinghai Province, the Ta’er Monastery covers an area of 144 thousand square meters. Its a group of buildings constructed on the mountain slope with lofty temples and halls rising one upon another. The palace buildings, Buddhist halls, scriptures rooms, sleeping quarters, as well as courtyards forming an integral whole, enhance each others beauty. The magnificent temples and halls are, in architecture, a perfect combination of the Hans style of palace buildings with upturned roof-eaves with Tibetan style under-eave walls and decorations. The spectacular Lamasery is scattered with tall ancient trees and Buddhist pagodas.
The Taer Monastery abounds in fascinating Buddhist stories as well as arts and crafts of superb workmanship. Butter sculptures, murals and appliques are its three unique works of art.
Murals: Its unique characteristic is the fine workmanship, reputed as "no stroke but fine, no place but excellent". Mural paintings are done direct on walls and beams, but in most cases on fabrics. A kind of stony mineral dye is used in painting to keep pictures fresh for hundreds of years. The Taer Monastery contains countless murals. There are numerous large-sized colorful and vivid mural paintings in the Great Temple of Golden Tiles, the Great Scripture Hall and the Small Scripture Hall. The pictures of the image of flying Bodhisattva clad in transparent fine gauze are the masterwork among the temple murals.
Butter sculptures: Several months ahead of the Spring Festival, artists get to mix pure white butter with stony mineral fuels of various colors, and sculpt them into mountains, rivers, flowers, plants, figurines, trees, elephants, white cranes, old folk, Buddha immortals, officials and generals, halls, towers, pavilions, terraces, stories of religious life and mythologies. These sculptures, lifelike and in myriad forms and expressions, are excellent manual work.
Appliques: They are made of colorful silk-fabric cuttings. These cuttings in the shape of Buddha, man, flower, plant, bird, wild animal, insect, fish etc. are sewn on a large silk fabric, in-between stuffed with wool, cotton or other woolly materials, to achieve three-dimensional effect. The oblong sheets or streamers of silk fabric with appliques of Buddha, scripture etc. hang from the ceilings or upon pillars all over the places in the Lamasery. They constitute a dazzling silk gallery. Artists of appliques pay particular attention to projecting the lines and contours of an individual figure. This fully demonstrates the artistic style and skill of Tibetan culture.

Chaka Saline Lake

Chaka Saline LakeLocating in the basin, Chaka Saline Lake is a famous crystal saline lake. The salt explored there is pure and big. Since 1763 the exploration of salt in Chaka Saline Lake has started. The exploration has a history of 230 years.

Kekexili Nature Reserve

Kekexili Nature ReserveCovering an area of 4.5 million hectares, the Kekexili Nature Reserve is located on the boundaries of Zhiduo County and Qumalai County of Qinghai Province. It mainly protects the habitat of indigenous wildlife of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Primitive ecosystems have been preserved intact in the Kekexili Nature Reserve. There are 202 species of higher plants; 84 of them are local to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Kekexili Nature Reserve is the habitat for rare animals. There are 16 species of mammal and about 30 species of bird. 18 species of these animals are indigenous to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. State protection is given to snow leopards, golden eagles, gorals and yaks.

Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve

Sanjiangyuan Nature ReserveThe Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve is Chinas largest (covering a total area of 316,000 sq km), highest (averagely at over 4,000 meters above sea level) nature reserve with the most concentrated biodiversity. Established in August 2000, it is located in the central area of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, at the source of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers. A total investment of 220 million yuan in the Sanjiangyuan protection project has been made by the state. Yunnan Province has 157 nature reserves, the most in the country, covering a total area of 2.99 million ha. Twenty-two of Chinas nature reserves have been designated by UNESCO as "World Biosphere Reserves" with the most recent additions in 2003 of Wudalianchi, a site of mineral springs, caves and volcanoes about an hour north of Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, and Yading, an area of high snowy mountains and pastures considered an epicenter of biodiversity within the new Three Parallel Rivers National Park and World Heritage Site in western Sichuan Province.

Langmu Monastery

Langmu MonasteryLangmu Monastery is actually the name of a place instead of a temple. Situated at the juncture of Sichuan and Gansu provinces, Langmu Monastery is divided into two parts by the Bailongjiang River, one half belonging to Sichuan and the other to Gansu.
Langmu Monastery basically comprises two Tibetan monasteries, two schools and two public security offices administrated by two different provinces.
Tibetans living in Langmu Monastery share the same living habits in daily life and often attend religious activities together. Young people there speak Tibetan and Han languages. Though it is hard to tell which part they belong to from their clothes, the dialect they speak are different. Those belonging to Sichuan have Sichuan accent and those from the other part have the Gansu accent.
The monasteries are collectively known as the Langmu Monastery though they have their respective names as Gerdi Monastery and Saichi Monastery. Langmu means "fairy"in Tibetan language. The Langmu Monastery was so named because inside the cave there is a rock bearing the resemblance of a beautiful young lady, which was believed to be the transformation of a fairy.

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