Dege County is located in the northwest of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and the seat of the county is Gengqing Town. Dege is a small county in western Sichuan, where the Dege Sutra Printing House has been hidden for hundreds of years. Dege is the birthplace of Kham culture, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, where Tibetan culture has a long history and simple folk customs.

Maisu is a place where Tibetan culture and civilization flourished in the history of Dege County. It brings together Maisu clay pottery production skills, Maisu woodcarving production techniques, and Maisu statue production techniques. It is a provincial intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province; Maisu Rattan weaving skills, Dege folk dry sauerkraut making skills, and cow plush weaving skills are state-level intangible cultural heritages, known as the hometown of folk handicrafts in the Kangba area.

With so many manual workshops, the editor who has a strong desire to do it is ready to live here to experience and learn various traditional skills. When you come to Maisu, it is a good choice to live in a local B&B. Today I want to introduce the B&B Snowy Wind Horse B&B at the foot of Dzongsar Monastery.

Walking into the door of the B&B, the Tibetan-style decoration is reflected in many details. The lamps and painted decorations are exquisite and unassuming, and everything is reasonable and just right.

The inside of the corridor is colorful, red and white, and the traditional Tibetan patterns are carved on the door, which looks simple and mysterious.

The red walls in the room and the roof painted with colorful patterns reflect Tibetan style everywhere.

Walking out of the homestay, you can come to Dege’s traditional handmade black pottery workshop in a few steps, where you can experience the charm of traditional handmade immersively, kneading black pottery clay into pottery bit by bit with your own hands The prototype, and then carved into black pottery products bit by bit with tools, feel the exquisite traditional skills of the Tibetan people, experience the magical process of using the most primitive materials to participate in the production of handicrafts, and add better memories to this journey .

From Chengdu to Dege Maisu, there are two ways to arrive:

Transportation 1: By car

The whole journey from Chengdu to Dege is 811.6 kilometers, passing by by car: Ya'an, Luding, Kangding, Daofu, Luhuo, Ganzi;

It takes two days to take a bus. First arrive at Kangding at Chengdu Xinnanmen Bus Station, and then arrive at Dege County from Kangding early the next morning. You can stay in the county for one day, visit the famous Dege Sutra Printing House, and then take the bus to Maisu the next day.

Transportation 2: By plane

Book a flight from Chengdu to Ganzi Gesar Airport, four round-trip flights a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and then take the airport bus directly to Dege County. Then take the shuttle bus to Maisu.