Qinghai or Tibet is more attractive?

The hiding place is very big,

Except for seven cities in Tibet,

There are also 10 Tibetan autonomous prefectures in Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu.

Since arriving in Tibet in early October/February, Xiao Jian has been to Tibetan areas every year.

I have traveled all over Tibet except Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Qinghai spends the least time.

Compared with the fiery "Tibetan plot" of countless young artists,

And the grand occasion of the influx of Tibetan population in western Sichuan into the Sichuan-Tibet line.

The heat and attraction of Tibetan areas in Qinghai are much lower than those in Tibet and western Sichuan.

However, people say that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Qinghai accounts for almost half of Tibet.

In addition,

1. Among the top ten Tibetan autonomous prefectures, Qinghai has 6.

Qinghai has two of the four sacred mountains of Tibetan Buddhism.

Qinghai accounts for two of the four no-man's land areas in China.

China's two mother rivers, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, both originate in Qinghai.

5. China is divided into three natural divisions, and Qinghai is one of the only two provinces and regions that are all included.

These are enough to show the uniqueness and magic of Qinghai.

Then, obviously, with the scenery and human resources that you are proud of,

Why is Qinghai not so attractive?

Zhuonaihu Tibetan Antelope Aggregation Tibetan antelopes gather in Hoh Xil and Bukadaban Peak, the highest peak in Qinghai.

Photo by: Haha

I want to summarize the complicated argument in a short sentence.

As it happens, despite the unique scenery and humanities in Qinghai,

It boils down to one word: transition.

Three major changes in Qinghai:

6. Qinghai is the transition zone from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the northwest arid region and the eastern monsoon region.

7. Qinghai is a transitional zone between Islamic area and Tibetan Buddhism area.

8. Qinghai is a transition between the mainland and the frontier.

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scenery

First, Shenshan

Four sacred mountains of Tibetan Buddhism:

Tibet Gangrenboqi, Yunnan Kawagebo, Qinghai Anima Qing, Qinghai Gaduojuevo.

Qinghai accounts for half.

(ps: reply to the keyword "Animaqing" or "Gaduo Juewo" in the background to view Xiao Jian's travel records and raiders)

Strange to say, the so-called big four, the top two and the last two are very different.

For example, Aaron Kwok and Liming are obviously weaker than Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung.

For example, the results of the four NBA center generals and Ewing are obviously not as good as O 'Neill and Dream.

For example, you may have to think for a long time about who are the other two geniuses besides Tang Bohu and Zhu Zhishan.

Anima Qinghe Gaduojuevo's fame,

It's not as good as Kong Limboqi and Kawagebo.

1. animaqing

The snow-capped mountains in Qinghai.

The most recommended is Anima Qing in Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Anima Green is a mountain range, and its main peak is 6282 meters above sea level, which is extremely handsome.

In mythology, Anima Qing is one of the nine creation gods, and it is these nine mountain gods who built the universe.

King Gelsall, the greatest hero in Tibet, was born in the dream of Qingshan in Anima and the dragon girl Guo Salam.

That is to say:

9. Animaqing is King Gelsall's father.

Nimaqing o

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Last year, I was transferred to Basheng Mountain in Tibetan areas. When I first met Animaqing, I wrote the following passage:

The first time I saw Anima Qing.

Shu she

"A curved white mountain peak hangs high in the clouds for all people to look up to.

The green hills beside me are set off with their heads bowed.

This is the first time I have seen Animaqing. "

This is the south of Mount Animaqing, with a slightly feminine side.

At a specific angle in the East, it has a magnificent appearance.

Because of its majestic height, American pilots even predicted that the Green Peak in Anima was as high as 9,000 meters at the beginning of World War II.

10. So Anima Green in Qinghai was once mistaken for the highest mountain in the world.

Qinghe Halon Glacier in Anima

Shu she

To the west and north, Animaqing looks ordinary.

But it shows Halon Glacier, the largest glacier in the Yellow River Basin.

2. Gaduo Juewo

Godot's nest, another sacred mountain in Qinghai, is the least famous.

But this is a virgin peak, and no one has reached the top yet.

It is located in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

The altitude is not high, only less than 5500 meters.

On the way up the mountain, it crossed the mountain pass at an altitude of 5000 meters three times.

It's quite close to the summit of the main mountain.

However, the mountain is not high.

There are many peaks in Jiaowo Group, which have extremely peculiar peak shapes.

Numerous sharp peaks are straight in groups, like the spires of Gothic churches.

Gaduojue Woqun Peak

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It seems difficult to climb at first sight.

Not inferior to this magical land of Patagonia in South America.

3. Other peaks in Qinghai

For example, Nianbao Yuze, Bukadaban, Gradandong, Saizong Shenshan, Jade Everest and so on. I don't need to say more.

Annual insurance policy

The photo was taken by Grove.

Saizong Temple and Saizong Mountain-Monkey Mountain in Amdo Tibetan Area.

Last year was the Year of the Monkey, and Xiao Jian almost climbed the mountain.

The author of the picture is unknown

Second, one province and three sides

China is divided into three natural regions-eastern monsoon region, northwest arid region and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau alpine region.

This is the most important rule to understand the scenery of China.

East monsoon region, northwest arid region, Qinghai-Tibet alpine region

Three faces in Qinghai, pictures from chinese national geography.

In China, two provinces can be regarded as crossing these three natural regions at the same time.

That is Gansu and Qinghai.

There are desert Gobi and Ya Dan in Qaidam Basin, Qinghai.

Geomorphology close to northwest arid area.

Yadanlin in Aobaoliang, Qaidam Basin

Photos taken by Jambo

Qinghai's unique aquatic Ya Dan

Image source: Yak 747

The desert Gobi in Qinghai is larger and more complete than Tibet where the desert is scattered.

Ya Dan landform in Qinghai can hardly be found in Tibet.

Menyuan Flower Sea-one of the most famous rape flowers in China.

Photography: Wang Jian 424

East of Qinghai Lake is also a farming land, which is the last and weakest place where the eastern monsoon can blow.

This is a scenery closer to the east.

For example: Danxia landform.

Guide Danxia

Photo author: Watching the fire from the other bank

1 1. Only Gansu and Qinghai can have Ya Dan landform and Danxia landform at the same time.

Third, no man's land.

There are four no-man's land in China.

Qiangtang in Tibet, Lop Nur in Xinjiang, Altun on the border between Qinghai and Xinjiang,

There is also the most famous Hoh Xil in Qinghai, which was listed as a World Heritage Site last year.

Bukadaban Peak and Sun Lake

Photo author: Buqiong, Secretary of the Hoh Xil Reserve Administration

Baixiangshan

Photo author: Buqiong, Secretary of the Hoh Xil Reserve Administration

Kekexili Sonanda Street Protection Station

Sonandaje is a local hero. He protects Tibetan antelopes from poachers.

Photo by: Haha

12. Hoh Xil is the densest lake in China.

The lake rate is above 6%, even higher than that in northern Tibet.

Moreover, Hoh Xil and Altun Mountain are both paradise for wildlife.

Mainly Tibetan antelope, Tibetan gazelle, Tibetan wild donkey and wild yak, supplemented by wolves and bears.

In Altun area, there are wild camels that are not found in Qiangtang and Hoh Xil.

13. The most important calving place for Tibetan antelopes is the gathering place of Tibetan antelopes in Zhuonaihu Tibetan Antelope Aggregation, Qinghai.

The yellow spots on the earth are dense Tibetan antelopes (click to enlarge)

Photo by: Haha

Bukadaban Peak, Zhuonaihu Tibetan Antelope Aggregation Tibetan Antelope Group and Tibetan Antelope Group

Photo author: Buqiong, Secretary of the Hoh Xil Reserve Administration

Hoh Xil Tibetan wild donkey

Photo author: Buqiong, Secretary of the Hoh Xil Reserve Administration

Hoh Xil brown bear

Photo author: Buqiong, Secretary of the Hoh Xil Reserve Administration

14. Hoh Xil has the largest number of Tibetan antelopes in China, surpassing Qiangtang in Tibet.

There are 6.5438+0.5 million Tibetan antelopes.

It is higher than 6.5438+0.2 million in Qiangtang, Tibet.

Fourth, the source of the Three Rivers

15. The largest protected area in China is Sanjiang in Qinghai.

1. The Yangtze River originates from the Gradandong Peak in Tanggula Mountain.

As the mother river of China, not many people know the peaks at the source of the Yangtze River.

This is a strange thing.

Gladden PK.

Image source: South Carolina

Can be more specific:

16. The Yangtze River originates from a glacier.

Even fewer people know.

Jiang Gendi at the foot of Gladin Cave is like a glacier. After 30 years, it retreated 2000 meters.

The picture is from Yong Yang.

2. The Yellow River originates from Bayan Kara Mountains.

It is difficult to tell the specific source.

But there is a basic knowledge that the upper reaches of the Yellow River are Xinghai.

That is, the constellation school of A Zi in Jin Yong's "Tian Long Ba Bu" is located.

Looking at the Bayan Kara Mountains from a distance.

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The once radiant Xinghai has dried up day by day.

The picture comes from the internet.

This is a swamp. The puddles were scattered all over the floor.

It is they that converge into the water of the Yellow River.

Nowadays, wetland degradation is extremely serious.

The stars and the sea are no longer the names of stars.

3. As for the origin of Lancang River, it started from a swamp wetland, and the specific source is not clear.

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culture

First, the transition between Islam and Tibetan Buddhism

A special fact that many people don't know is:

17. The vast majority of Lanzhou Lamian Noodles were made by Qinghai people.

There is a saying: Hualong County, Qinghai Province.

At that time, the county's main industry was the manufacture of private guns.

So much so that a gun is called "made in Hualong".

Later, the industry of manufacturing private guns was banned.

People can't rebuild guns, and collectively switch to beef noodles.

Therefore, the Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou, the mainland, is basically run by Hualong people in Qinghai, and has little to do with Lanzhou.

This story reflects that there are many Hui people in Qinghai.

Xinjiang and Tibet are the main areas of Islam and Tibetan Buddhism respectively.

Xinjiang borders Tibet, except for the natural barrier Kunlun Mountain.

These two religions, with very different doctrines, both rely on Qinghai to complete the transition.

Muslims in Dongguan Mosque in Xining

Photography: Zhang Qianqian

Islamic costumes in white hats are almost everywhere in Xining city.

It can drive 20 kilometers, but it is one of the six temples of Gelug Sect, the largest Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

As the main temple of Zong Kaba, the founder of Gelug Sect, the religious level of Tibetan Buddhists here is almost higher than that of other Tibetan areas.

I have to say, two very different religions are mixed together,

This is a miracle that only Qinghai can see.

Second, a rich and mixed nation.

In addition to a large number of Hui people, there are also a large number of Mongolians, Tus and Salars in Qinghai.

The wealth of this nation is obviously higher than that of Tibet and western Sichuan.

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Why is it not so charming?

So why is it so much less attractive and attractive than Tibet, Xinjiang and western Sichuan?

First of all, the primary reason is transition.

Qinghai is a transition between the mainland and the frontier.

For real frontiers like Tibet and Xinjiang, it is just like the mainland.

For the vast majority of Chinese mainland people, remote Qinghai is like a frontier.

This is an embarrassment: unclear positioning.

It's hard to be distinctive.

Then someone has to ask, why won't the same similar western Sichuan encounter such embarrassment?

However, western Sichuan is not a transition between the mainland and the frontier.

Transition is a slow change.

Western Sichuan is a mutation.

From the inland of Han culture to the exotic Tibetan land, half a day's drive is enough to rise thousands of meters above sea level and complete this huge difference.

Mutation makes western Sichuan unique.

Transition can't.

2. Qinghai's biggest highlight in humanities is also its biggest weakness.

Because of this change,

The religions and nationalities in Qinghai are mixed and varied.

However, it has also become unclear and not pure enough.

To understand the purest Islamic culture, travelers go directly to Xinjiang instead of Qinghai.

To understand the purest Tibetan Buddhist culture, travelers go directly to Tibet instead of Qinghai.

If you want to see Mongolians and Hui people, why not stay in Inner Mongolia and Ningxia?

If you want to know Tibetan friends, Tibet in western Sichuan has become the first choice.

Qinghai said: Hey, I'm a little embarrassed.

3. Qinghai does have natural weaknesses in geology and geomorphology.

We often say: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

It seems that the natural environment in Qinghai and Tibet is similar.

Indeed, the average altitude in Qinghai is also very high.

However, compared with Tibet, Qinghai does have disadvantages.

As we all know, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a unique landscape and unique in the world.

Mainly because of two points: snow-capped mountains and glaciers.

This is also the weakness of Qinghai:

1. There are too few glaciers in Qinghai.

Tibet has 48% of the country's glaciers.

18. Qinghai, which is only slightly smaller than Tibet, accounts for only 6% of the country's glacier area.

Even compared with western Sichuan, which is only half the area of Qinghai, it accounts for 2% of the national glaciers.

The height of Qinghai is too short.

* * * Although it is called the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the average altitude in Qinghai is not much worse than that in Tibet.

But the height of Qinghai is not as high as that of Sichuan.

19. The highest peak in Qinghai is only 6820 meters above sea level: Bukadaban Peak (also known as Xinqingfeng).

It is 2000 meters shorter than Mount Everest, the highest peak in Tibet.

Aerial photography of Bukadaban Peak, the highest peak in Qinghai.

Photo author: Buqiong, Secretary of the Hoh Xil Reserve Administration

Compared with the spectacular peaks of 7000m and 8000m in Tibet and Xinjiang, Qinghai is too short.

Because Gongga Mountain, the highest peak in Sichuan Province, is 7556 meters above sea level.

Qinghai is also nearly 800 meters shorter than Sichuan.

3. The snow-capped mountains in Qinghai are mediocre in shape and low in recognition.

This is the biggest weakness of Qinghai scenery.

Western Sichuan is a small place, but its charm is extraordinary, which is largely due to the injustice of the creator.

There are so many unique and identifiable snow-capped mountains in such a small area.

Yang Maiyong's gentle curve points pointedly to heaven.

Gongga Mountain stands out from the crowd, and the huge and tough velvet shows the spirit of the king.

The steep cliffs of granite in Mo Meifeng lead to the Three Sisters Peak and many other peaks.

What about Tibet?

Gangrinpoche's pagoda-like body has a natural cross mark.

Nange Bawa is huge, and seven conjoined tind stars hold the main peak like the moon.

Sapu Shenshan interprets the geometric beauty of nature with two standard isosceles triangular peaks, one large and one small.

But Qinghai,

Anima is more beautiful than unique.

Gaduo Juewo is unique and less aesthetic.

As for the mountains like Nianbao Yuze, the unique shape of the peaks can hardly be seen, and it is hard to say that they are beautiful.

Judging from the appraisal, it is difficult for a mountain in Qinghai to bear the qualification to compete with the above-mentioned strange mountains.

This is a fact.

Fourth, life in Qinghai Lake

The last point is the main reason why Qinghai can't really exert its charm.

The name of this province is not pleasant to hear.

Qinghai Lake, the most famous scenic spot in Qinghai,

It is the biggest stumbling block in Qinghai.

It is big and famous, and has become a signboard in Qinghai Province.

The dominance of one family limits other beautiful scenery in Qinghai.

Whether a place is attractive or not,

In fact, it does not depend on the place itself, but on people's public opinion.

Ten years ago, there was a woman writer who wrote martial arts novels in Peking University. Her name is Bu Yan Fei.

She said: "To develop martial arts, you have to change Mr. Jin Yong's life."

Just like facing Qinghai,

We want to change the life of Qinghai Lake.

If one day, Qinghai Lake is no longer the loudest signboard in Qinghai,

Then Qinghai may gradually have the charm of attracting tourists from all over the world like Tibet and western Sichuan.

Unfortunately, it is difficult.

Who told me that Qinghai Province was named after Qinghai Lake?

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The success or failure of things is attributed to the same person.

Summarize the three major changes in Qinghai:

1. Qinghai is the transition zone from Qinghai-Tibet alpine region to northwest arid region and eastern monsoon region.

2. Qinghai is a transitional zone between Islamic area and Tibetan Buddhism area.

Qinghai is a transition between the mainland and the frontier.

These are the advantages of Qinghai.

It is also the disadvantage of Qinghai.

The so-called success is Xiao He and failure is me.

Just like our life.

There are gains and losses, and there is a price.