You burn, I burn you to ashes.
You go out, and I accompany you to lower the dust.
When you were born, I accompanied you on foot.
You are silent, I will accompany you without saying a word,
You laugh, and I will accompany you to the mountains and the tsunami.
You are old, and I will be devastated with you.
You escape, I accompany you into the night.
You leave, I can only wait.
I am here, in the most brilliant and boundless rising sun in the city, waiting for you!
In September last year, other outdoor companies contacted me, saying that a new tourist route had been made, would you like to take a look? I became curious when I heard it, because to be honest, I have been to Tibet countless times since I started my career, whether it was on my own whim or invited by the local government to explore and step on the line. In the spring of last year, I took a fancy to the Sapp Mountain, so I made the national first Sapp itinerary, and the rest felt that there was no need for development.
Because most of the news in the outdoor circle is interoperable and everyone is familiar with it, he half-jokingly asked me to guess where the line is, and said that if I guess correctly, I will be rewarded with a red envelope of 200 yuan. Later he narrowed it down to Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, and I still ended up losing. At the moment when the answer was revealed, I gave a meaningful ah, because this place is really inconspicuous.
Many people in Daocheng know about it, but when it comes to Xiangcheng to the west of it, few people know about it. In fact, the scenery can be regarded as the best among the features, but there is a well-known Daocheng suppression, which has caused it to remain unknown.
Since we are going to travel in rural areas, it is natural to have an in-depth understanding. At that time, we were catching up with the registration and statistics of the first phase of no-man's land in the second half of 2018. We really couldn't escape, so we could only find more information on the Internet. (webpage, video) to see. It turns out that the information on the Internet is not very comprehensive. It should be that the general public, like me, really underestimate the township.
When I was worried that there was no video to watch, the colleague at the front desk said, "You can go and watch "Passing Through Your World." I said I have seen it, is there anything worth watching again? Unexpectedly, she knew more than me. She said, "I heard that the filming location in the movie is not only in Daocheng, but also in Yading, and there is actually a town that few people notice." As soon as she said that, I immediately went to revisit the movie, this time with my keen observation skills.
When Chen Mo took Yaoji to gather wind in a field of highland barley, he suddenly heard a burst of singing. It was people ramming the roof. That is our topic today, this kind of singing and dancing way of working is called playing aga.
Da Aga is a traditional Tibetan method of building the roof or the ground inside the house. It uses the local unique soil and gravel called "Aga soil" and mixes it with water to spread it on the ground or roof, and then artificially Repeated ramming makes the ground and roof solid, smooth and water-tight.
"Aga" in Tibetan refers to a kind of weathered stone with strong viscosity and beautiful color. It is produced in some half-earth and half-rock mountain packs in Tibet. When Aga was mined, crushed and slightly processed, it became an important building material Aga soil. According to historical records, as early as the 8th century AD, Tubo Zanpu Trisong Detsen used Aga soil when building the Samye Temple. In the process of making Aga, the coordination and cooperation of labor collectives are extremely needed. Singing can make heavy and mechanical physical labor easy and lively. In 2013, Da'aga was included in the fourth batch of autonomous region-level intangible cultural heritage lists by the Tibet Autonomous Region.
When "Bo Duo" (transliteration, a tool for beating Aga, a round stone cake underneath, a hole is dug in the middle of the stone cake, and a long wooden handle is wedged in the hole) falls neatly on the wet roof When singing, the sound of "Boom, Boom, Boom" is like a subwoofer accompanied by singing, thick and deep, with the rhythm and melody like tap dancing. The feet of the girls and the boys kept stepping on the ground, following the rhythm of "Boduo", fast and slow, light and heavy, with graceful figures and light steps, "Boduo" was sometimes held on the left and sometimes on the right , so stretched, so harmonious, evenly curved, ingenious and well-rounded. The working people changed their formation regularly in the sun, turning around for a while, and turning around for a while. Their singing was sometimes soothing and sometimes brisk. Some people chanted chant in the singing. No matter how they sang, their singing voices never messed up...
In fact, in the old town of Barkhor Street in Lhasa or in various monasteries, you may encounter Da'aga. She is so charming that some people say that there is no suitable word to describe her in the "Xinhua Dictionary".
In short, it is ethereal to be far away, and indescribably moving to be close. Others say that in Lhasa, even if you go around every corner, you have to see, hear, and feel even if you die.
