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By Ryan-China Travel Expert, 八月 23, 2010

In ancient times, on the first day of the seventh month in Tibetan calendar, or August in Gregorian calendar, when the fast days in which the monks are confined in their monasteries for the ascetic practice of Buddhism concluded,people from these monk's families prepared yougurt for them to eat, with all the performance of singing and dancing on the following days to welcome them back.Shoton means' Yogurt Festival'. In the early 17th century,Shoton Festival became a festival with the Tibetan operas as its main content. Tibetan opera artists of diferents schools from all over Tibet gather in Norbu Lingka to have a performance competition. Which lasts for several days. During this period,a large portrait of Buddha displaying ceremony will be held in the Drepung Monastery of Lhasa.

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By Ryan-China Travel Expert, 八月 21, 2010

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By Ryan-China Travel Expert, 八月 20, 2010

Yamdrok Yumtso Lake

Yamdrok Yumtso means ’swan pool’ in Tibetan language. Lies about a hundred kilometers’ distance to the southwest of Lhasa, Yamdrok Yumtso Lake is one of the three famous sacred lakes in Tibet and the largest inland lake north of the Himalayas.

With an area of 638 square kilometers and a coastal line of 250 kilometers,Yamdrok Yumtso takes a shape of paper fan and stretches roughly from northwest to southeast, while the south is wide and the north is narrow. Along the lake, there are many branches of the lake winding their way into the mountains. There is lush pasture around the lake with an area of 10 million square hectares and is one of the most famous pasturelands in Tibet. It is said that a fairy maiden left the Heaven and turned into the lake on earth. There are more than 10 islands in the lake, the large ones can hold 5 to 6 households while the small ones are only 100 square meters or so.

You would like to list the lake as a must go destination while going to Shigatse from Lhasa via the south route

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By Ryan-China Travel Expert, 八月 18, 2010

Tibet Museum

As Tibet's first museum in the modem sense, the Tibet Museum was officially inaugurated in October of 1999, with a permanent collection that celebrates the History of Tibetan Culture. The design of the exhibit uses traditional Tibetan architecture such as Tibetan doors, beam-decoration, patterns and so on, in order to create the atmosphere of authentic Tibetan art.

Coveting 53,959 square meters, the museum is an enormous and magnificent building complex with a total floor area of 23,508 square meters, including exhibition halls with 10,451 square meters. In plan, strictly arranged along the axis of the com pound stand one after the other introductory hall, the main exhibition hall and the storehouse for culture relics. The architecture design, while bearing conspicuous signs of Tibetan ethical tradition, obviously reveals the modernist emphasis on practical function and the post-modernist artistic features. It represents a harmonious application of those three distance elements. The whole treasure of cultural relics houses in the museum include a wide range of prehistoric cultural remains, statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva's made of different materials, ancient Tibetan scriptural texts written in inks of gold, silver and coral, delicate Tanghka paintings, various musical instruments and ritual articles.To these are added handicrafts characteristic of Tibet, pottery of unique styles etc. The inaugural show was exclusively dedicated to the general theme of "the history and culture of and art; and the folk culture". The museum performs the concurrent functions of preservation, academic research and social education. Furnished with air-conditional devices, multi-functional saccousto-optic equipment, sophisticated.

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