Preservation work aids defend traditional homes

Sonam Tsering, 70, presents a thumbs-up to the washroom and shower in his new house, facilities that he didn”t have just before.

A regular village safety job in Tsogo village in Tsogo town, Nyingchi city of the Tibet autonomous area, is contributing the two to preserving tradition and bettering livelihoods.

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

With an expense of additional than 93 million yuan ($13 million) by the Kongpo’gyada county in Nyingchi in 2018, a new resettlement was developed beside the outdated village, and Sonam Tsering moved to the new space with 106 other homes by the end of 2019.

At an common altitude of 3,500 meters and enriched with plentiful all-natural landscape and one of a kind Tibetan cultural assets, Tsogo was accredited as a historical cultural village in 2013, and as a common Chinese village by the Ministry of Housing and City-Rural Development in 2015.

Thanks to the relocation job, all 63 conventional properties with a history of amongst 200 and 600 a long time are now below appropriate protection.

Tsogo pretty much refers to “head of the lake” in the Tibetan language, as the air in the village is so refreshing and transparent that the snow-capped mountains can be plainly observed from just about every direction of the village.

Tenzin Dondrub, Bash secretary of Tsogo township, reported the local govt will persuade the villagers to get involved in tourism businesses to crank out revenue.

“The average location of the village’s residences was elevated from 146 to 228 sq. meters, equipped with a public plaza and drainage program,” he said.

Tenzin Dondrub said the aged homes had been developed hundreds of yrs in the past, and most of them were being susceptible to sturdy wind and constant rains, posing threats to lives and assets.

Relocating out of this kind of residences has aided villagers keep away from the risk of harmful the architecture, he claimed.

To increase the security of the conventional village, a cultural relics safety group was established up in the village in early 2019. Just about every team member is dependable for the defense of a few aged homes.

Norbu Tsering, a village official, claimed he was happy about the relocation strategy and the steps to guard the traditional cottages.

“The aged residences mirror the regular architectural society of Tibetan inhabitants, so it truly is of fantastic worth in record reports and conventional cultural exhibition,” he mentioned.

By the stop of 2018, Tibet had 35 traditional villages enriched with geographical and conventional components that reflect a particular historical and cultural history as a portion of the region’s intangible cultural assets.

“With the regular village and other traditional factors this sort of as tracks and dances, tourists can take pleasure in equally the beautiful, heavenly landscape and the regional cultures,” Norbu Tsering mentioned.