Photos of Ganbao Tibetan Village

Ganbao Tibetan Village is a Tibetan village in Ganbao Township, Li County, Sichuan Province. Ganbao Tibetan Village is located in the center of the Lixian-Markang Baili Tibetan-Qiang Cultural Corridor. Ganbao Tibetan Village is located beside National Highway 317, 192 kilometers away from Chengdu and 8 kilometers away from Lixian County. It is a typical Jiarong Tibetan settlement. 's big stockade. It was built against the mountains and beside the river, so it was named Ganbao, which means "village on the slope" in Tibetan. In the entire Tibetan area, Ganbao has been called Ganbao Jiaqiong since ancient times, which means Hundred Households Dazhai. The stockade is a block of tower-like buildings built of stones. The stone house is not built with bricks, cement, river sand or lime, but is made of granite (commonly known locally as pock-marked stone) washed down by the river, cut and processed into stones of different sizes and made of local clay. . The stone house is warm in winter and cool in summer, not easy to be weathered, and shockproof, fireproof and waterproof. The stone houses are generally two or three stories, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top; the first floor is for livestock, and the second floor is the living room, kitchen, bedroom, and guest room; Some Tibetan dwellings even have buildings with inner and outer balconies similar to modern buildings. The stone houses are adjacent to each other, and the heights are scattered. Naturally arranged into villages; there are narrow lanes between houses, the width is about three meters, and the narrow can only pass two people side by side. All roads and roads are made of pockmarked stones or cobblestones. The May 12 earthquake in 2008 destroyed Ganbao Tibetan Village. On March 5, 2009, the Ganbao Tibetan Village in Lixian County held the "Entrusted Reconstruction Ceremony of the Ganbao Tibetan Village in Li County by Hunan Province's Counterpart Support", marking the full start of the restoration and reconstruction of the Ganbao Tibetan Village in Li County. After more than two years of reconstruction, the thousand-year-old Tibetan village has basically been restored to its original appearance. Ganbao Tibetan Village has begun to take shape. The entire village is built on cliffs, connected to each other, and each household is connected, all of which reflect the exquisite skills of Jiarong people. Guozhuang, folk songs, costumes, customs, military culture, religious culture, farming culture, and stone culture are attracting tourists with their unique charm to come to watch, play, and vacation.