At the corner, a tall "Jueya Dajin" Falun column was built. When Tibetan girls reach the age of 16, they will hold a ceremony to celebrate their adulthood in front of the mast of "Jueya Dajin".
There is a specific time to turn over the scriptures. Every evening, people who don't know each other will gather in Jokhang Temple and walk along the circular road around Jokhang Temple in strict clockwise direction.
The area around Jokhang Temple is the most important route for Tibetan Buddhist believers to change their scriptures, and believers come here every day. They came to the Jokhang Temple to worship Buddha and cast a long and short shadow on the smooth and shiny stone road.
To the north of the Palais de France is a three-story building with a red grass wall on the top, which is the yamen of the minister stationed in Tibet of the Qing Dynasty. Later, starting from Yong Zhengdi, ministers stationed in Tibet were sent to manage the western regions. It was not until the Revolution of 1911 that the Qing court sent 84 ministers to Tibet.
At the end of the turning road, there is a Little Square named Songqure, which occupies an important position in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. In the past, when the Dafa meeting was held in Jokhang Temple, the Tibetan Buddhist community held a grand public debate here to get the exam of Rambagsi.
Xiamao Gabu is a famous old shop in Barkhor Street, founded by Nepalese Basula Na. Xiamao Gabu means "white hat" because Tibetans could not call it "Basula Na" at that time. When they saw him wearing a Nepalese white hat and busy with business in the store, they all affectionately called him "Xiamao Gabu". Over time, Basula changed its name to "Xiamao Gabu".
Xiamao Gabu has just started the wool business. Basula collected wool from various properties in Lhasa, transported it to Nepal to exchange candy, cloth and other daily necessities, and finally established the first wool washing factory in Tibet in Lhasa. In addition to selling wool, Basula Na also does business such as clear oil and ghee, which is very profitable.
Tangka Store in Snowland is a place where Tangka art is concentrated. Its owner is Dan Langjie, a famous Tangka artist in Tibet. Thangka is a scroll painting in Tibetan areas, mostly painted on cloth or paper, and then stitched and mounted with satin. There is a string hanging on the upper horizontal shaft, and the two ends of the lower shaft are decorated with exquisite shaft heads. This picture is covered with thin silk and double ribbons.
After Buddhist Thangka is mounted, lamas are generally asked to recite sutras and bless, and the back is covered with Lama's golden juice or cinnabar handprints. Thangka's drawing is extremely complicated, with exquisite materials, bright and durable pigments and strong snow style.
Thangka is mostly about Tibetan religion, history, culture and art, science and technology. It embodies the belief and wisdom of Tibetans, records the civilization, history and development of Tibet, and entrusts Tibetans with unparalleled feelings for Buddha and infinite love for the hometown of snowy areas.
The periphery of Barkhor Street is relatively spacious, and dignitaries have built their own residences on the periphery of Barkhor Street. Barkhor Street at that time was a microcosm of Lhasa's social life, all-encompassing and ubiquitous.
The streets of Barkhor Street are full of Tibetan-style buildings, some with white walls and red roofs. Some are covered with dust, and the walls are crooked and worn.
In Barkhor Street, there were the original government, local courts, prisons and other institutions, as well as later shops, stalls and handicraft workshops. There are nobles, monks, scholars, carpenters, painters, tailors and other craftsmen and civilians.
Under the small stalls and tents, there are small shops that stretch in, and there are all kinds of colorful transactions in the small shops.
In the manual workshops in Barkhor Street, people also produce carpets, Tibetan quilts and other daily necessities. It can be said that Barkhor Street has become a distribution center for Tibetan materials and an "encyclopedia" of Tibetan culture.
Barkhor Street retains the original features of the ancient city of Lhasa. The street is paved with hand-polished stones, and there are old Tibetan houses next to it. There is a huge incense burner in the middle of the street, filled with fireworks day and night.
There are many shops on both sides of the street, including 100 handicraft shops and more than 200 stalls, and there are religious articles such as bronze Buddha, prayer wheel, butter lamp, prayer flags, prayer beads, tributes, pine and cypress branches.
There are cushions, aprons, hides, saddles, snuff bottles, fire sickles, Tibetan quilts, Tibetan shoes, Tibetan knives, Tibetan hats, ghee, ghee barrels, wooden bowls, highland barley wine, sweet tea, milk residue, air-dried meat and other daily necessities.
There are also Thangka paintings, handkerchiefs, carpets and other handicrafts, as well as antiques, local products from all over Tibet and other commodities with national characteristics. In addition, there are commodities from India, Nepal, Myanmar, Kashmir and other places.
There are many places of interest in the street, including Shrimp House, Quiet House, Xide Temple Site, Cangjie Temple, Small Mosque and 12 Lacan.
Here, believers turn around Jokhang Temple clockwise in the morning and evening, which has also become an important folk cultural landscape here. Here, the main body of catering is Tibetan flavor. Before drinking, we should respect heaven, earth and God.
Besides the Tibetan flavor, the restaurants here are also rich in other kinds of food, such as Cantonese food, northern food, Hunan food and so on. Sichuan food is the most.
The Millennium Barkhor Street, which integrates religion, culture, tourism and commerce, is one of the most distinctive and charming historical and cultural blocks in China and even the world, and it is the historical epitome of Tibet's development from ancient times to the present.
Prayer prayer prayer wheel on Barkhor Street
A stall on Barkhor Street.
Shops on Barkhor Street