What happened when a thousand-year-old tree in Tibet turned into a "money tree"?

When the fruits on the branches are ripe, Tibetan Bai Yang will be busy for more than a month. Every morning, Bai Yang would carry several baskets of apples, plums, dates, pineapples and other fruits grown at home, along with his own dry food, and go to the "World Cypress King Scenic Area" about 1.7 kilometers away from his home. She would set up a stall at the entrance of the scenic spot and wait until the sun went down.

Bai Yang is a villager in Baji Village, Bayi Town, Bayi District, Nyingchi City, Tibet. He is 53 years old this year. She said that around July every year, she started to sell fruits in this scenic spot. When the passenger flow is large, she can sell for about 600 yuan a day. She also said, "My lover works as a security guard in this scenic spot, and his monthly salary is More than 3,000 yuan. ?

The World Cypress King Scenic Area covers an area of ??200,000 square meters. There are 990 large and small cypress trees in the scenic area. Among them, there are 396 cypress trees that are over a thousand years old. In the center of the ancient Berlin, there is also a giant cypress tree with a height of 57 meters. This tree won the Guinness Book of World Records in Shanghai in 2019. It is 3,238 years old and is known as the "King of Cypress Trees in the World".

In this way, with the "King of Cypress Trees in the World" as the center, the local area built a tourist attraction based on Gubelin, which led to the prosperity of nearby farmers and herdsmen.

The villagers of Baji Village will be divided into two groups when they come to the scenic spot to do business. One group sells home-grown fungus, matsutake, etc. at the foot of the mountain, and the other group rents special ethnic costumes to tourists next to the World Cypress King. Local villagers also said that during the peak tourist season, they could even sell more than 3,000 yuan a day. The villagers said that because they are close to tourist attractions, they are popular and it is much easier to make money.

Mr. Cheng Shuairong, general manager of Bayi District Tourism Development Co., Ltd., said that the scenic spot will provide mobile fruit stalls for local fruit farmers free of charge, which can increase the annual income of each local fruit farmer by about 10,000 yuan. In addition, each household can increase their income by about 50,000 yuan per year by renting stalls with special ethnic costumes in the scenic area. The next step is to better develop the scenic spot and bring more benefits to local villagers.