Preservation hard work helps safeguard regular houses

Sonam Tsering, 70, provides a thumbs-up to the washroom and shower in his new household, amenities that he didn”t have right before.

A standard village defense challenge in Tsogo village in Tsogo town, Nyingchi metropolis of the Tibet autonomous region, is contributing both of those to preserving society and strengthening livelihoods.

Surrounded by snow-capped mountains and forests, Tsogo is found 10 kilometers away from the Baksum Co Lake, now one particular of the region’s most popular tourist web-sites.

With an financial investment of much more than 93 million yuan ($13 million) by the Kongpo’gyada county in Nyingchi in 2018, a new resettlement was built beside the old village, and Sonam Tsering moved to the new region with 106 other households by the end of 2019.

At an normal altitude of 3,500 meters and enriched with plentiful natural landscape and special Tibetan cultural resources, Tsogo was accredited as a historic cultural village in 2013, and as a conventional Chinese village by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Growth in 2015.

Many thanks to the relocation task, all 63 classic residences with a historical past of amongst 200 and 600 decades are now under correct security.

Tsogo pretty much refers to “head of the lake” in the Tibetan language, as the air in the village is so fresh new and transparent that the snow-capped mountains can be clearly found from each route of the village.

Tenzin Dondrub, Party secretary of Tsogo township, reported the area government will motivate the villagers to get associated in tourism firms to deliver revenue.

“The regular area of the village’s homes was increased from 146 to 228 sq. meters, equipped with a general public plaza and drainage technique,” he said.

Tenzin Dondrub reported the old properties were designed hundreds of a long time back, and most of them were being susceptible to strong wind and continual rains, posing threats to life and residence.

Transferring out of this sort of properties has aided villagers stay clear of the hazard of detrimental the architecture, he claimed.

To enhance the security of the common village, a cultural relics security staff was set up in the village in early 2019. Each and every workforce member is dependable for the defense of a few aged residences.

Norbu Tsering, a village formal, stated he was delighted about the relocation prepare and the steps to safeguard the common cottages.

“The outdated residences reflect the standard architectural lifestyle of Tibetan citizens, so it truly is of good benefit in heritage scientific tests and classic cultural exhibition,” he reported.

By the end of 2018, Tibet had 35 common villages enriched with geographical and standard things that reflect a individual historical and cultural background as a portion of the region’s intangible cultural methods.

“With the classic village and other conventional elements these kinds of as songs and dances, tourists can delight in both equally the attractive, heavenly landscape and the local cultures,” Norbu Tsering claimed.