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Shengping Town, Deqin County, is located in a deep snowy valley. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the Lancang River Valley on one side. Far from the deep valley is the famous Meili Snow Mountain. It is a veritable "City of Snow Mountains". It is said that Shengping Town was called "Adunzi" in ancient times. In the third year of Guangxu (1878 AD), when the magistrate Xia Hu left office, he erected a "Deqin Monument" here and named the town "Shengping Town", implying a peaceful and prosperous age. , singing and dancing, this name has been used up to now. Shengping Town, the city of Deqin County, is called "Ju" in Tibetan, with an altitude of 3,400 meters. It is a town with a higher altitude in Yunnan Province. Yunnan-Tibet Highway 214 and De (Qin) Wei (West) Highway run through the county, which is 182 kilometers away from Shangri-La Highway, the state capital, 227 kilometers away from Baohe Town, Weixi County, 889 kilometers away from Kunming Highway, the provincial capital, and 889 kilometers away from the Tibet Autonomous Region It is 220 kilometers away from Mangkang County and 1200 kilometers away from Lhasa City.
Shengping Town has been an important distribution center for the tea-horse trade since the Tang Dynasty. It was the hub of the Yunnan-Tibet Tea-Horse Road in its heyday and an important channel for communication between Han and Tibetan cultures. Caravans all entered and left Tibet from here. Because it is on the main throat between Yunnan and Tibet, and there is the famous Kawagebo sacred mountain nearby, in the Year of the Goat in the Tibetan calendar (the legendary birth year of Prince Kawagebo), people from Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet and Kham Tibetan Buddhist believers will come to pilgrimage in groups, and the pilgrims covering the mountains and valleys give Shengping Town a strong religious atmosphere.
The Meili Snow Mountain, which is adjacent to Shengping Town, is a spectacular group of snow-capped mountains. As one of the eight sacred mountains of Tibetan Buddhism, it not only attracts Tibetan Buddhist believers who make pilgrimage to the mountain, but also attracts more and more tourists. At the viewing point of Feilai Temple with a better view of Meili Snow Mountain, there were only three or two Tibetan households two years ago, but now it is full of hotels and restaurants. cigarette.
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