At the beginning of April, the frozen rivers and lakes of northern Tibet revived, and the fluttering snowflakes turned the grasslands into vast snowy fields, making it difficult to find traces of spring.
But there is one place, where peach blossoms bloom all over the hillside, the farmland renders new green, the spring breeze blows the heart, and the whole canyon is full of spring.
Here, it is Niwu Township, Jiali County, Nagqu City!
Here, there is the earliest spring in northern Tibet!
Look – the texture of spring
From Bagai Township along the Yigong Zangbo traced up, the 50-kilometer journey took nearly 3 hours, the road conditions are indeed not good, but more importantly, the scenery is beautiful: the mountains in the distance are full of clouds and mist, the stream in the ears is murmuring, the green outside the window is coming, the peach blossoms and azaleas in full bloom on the cliffs beside the road are fragrant, and the vitality of the flowers is concretizing the spring.
The spring road rain is icing flowers, and the flowers move a mountain of spring. In this way, walking through the canyon, indulging in the water and mountains, to a slightly open place, borrowing the perspective of the drone, you can see that this is the place where the Xiaqu flowing from the direction of Jinling Township, Bianba County flows into the Yigong Zangbu. The upstream of Yigong Zangpo is marked on the map as: Niwu Zangbo.
In this way, the Niwu is presented to us with the natural texture of the confluence of the river.
The picture shows the Niyaiga Glacier.
The nunnery is divided into upper and lower nunnery. Along the Niwu Zangbo all the way up, dozens of kilometers to the upper Niwu, the two mountains on the shore are lush with vegetation, pines and cypresses, cattle and horses, but the most surprising is the Yiga Waterfall and the Yiga Glacier: the waterfall cascades down and flows into the Niwu Zangbo;
The picture shows the scenery of the upper nun house.
Standing halfway up the mountain and looking at the glacier, I was shocked that the texture of nature was so clearly presented, and behind the mountain is Gongbu Jiangda County, Nyingchi City, where it is said that there was an ancient road to go in the past, but now it is no longer walked. On the satellite map, this glacier is not far from the famous Basong Tso, which makes people sigh that Basong Tso has become a popular tourist attraction in Nyingchi, and the Yiga Glacier is still a secret place hidden in the canyon of northern Tibet.
The location of Niwu Township is generally called Xia Niwu, which is an open valley surrounded by snow-capped mountains, and the layers are full of peach trees.
The picture shows the fields of the Niwu.
Along the winding peach blossom road in the village, we chatted with the villagers while walking towards the spring fields. The drone took off in the field, and the images captured by us made us jump in amazement: the fields on the slopes have different shapes and distinct textures, some like a specimen with complete leaf veins, some like abstract drawings drawn by children, and some like delicately cut fans...... The freshly sown fields are a restrained dark brown, the winter wheat sown last winter is tender and freshly green, and the buds of the peach blossoms on the ridges are brownish-pink.
Niwu, at this moment, presents us with the most beautiful texture of spring: it is the trajectory of people's hard work, it is a field full of hope!
Listen – the sound of spring
People are diligent and spring comes early, and spring returns to the land and is busy with farming.
The sound of the spring breeze blowing in the ears seems to remind us of the busyness of spring: the farmland and the village in the open valley complement each other, and the fields present a lively scene, and all kinds of spring sounds are accompanied by the whining of the wind.
The picture shows a corner of farmland in Niwu Township.
The entrance of the village is the sound of the engine of overhauling agricultural machinery, these days into the busiest time of spring ploughing, several villagers are overhauling their own tractors, seeders and other agricultural machinery, over and over again, checking. During the greetings, they said that now the field farming is becoming more and more worry-free and labor-saving, just because of the help of these agricultural machinery. Because of this, many times a year during the busy farming, we will overhaul and try to eliminate all hidden faults, so that these "good helpers" can show their skills in the field.
The picture shows the Jampa family building a fence on the orchard.
Walking through the village, I heard the sound of noisy chatting and building a wall in the distance, and it turned out that the Qiangba family was building a wall for the orchard. "The apple trees in the yard have sprouted, and in order to prevent the cattle from eating them, we have made the fence higher with stones to prevent everything that would affect the apple harvest. Qiangba smiled heartily, "Last year, our family earned a total of 40,000 yuan from selling apples, and the plan for the year lies in the spring, so we must make sufficient preparations now, and this year's harvest will definitely be better!"
The picture shows the reporter interviewing people working in the fields of Niwu Township.
"Boom, boom, boom......" The roar of the rotary tiller resounded through the field, and the reporter followed the sound to the field, and the little white dog of the villager Qu Mei Renzeng's family also followed us, barking in the spring field to find the owner.
The picture shows Qu Mei Renzeng and his neighbors installing plowshares for agricultural machinery.
A red rotary tiller stopped next to the field, Qu Meirenzeng changed the plowshare, while sighing at the convenience brought by technology: "In the past, the ploughing was all dependent on livestock, which was laborious and laborious, but now the rotary tiller has finished ploughing the land, listening to the rumbling sound of the machine, I feel very happy, as if to say that the spring in our Niwu is particularly beautiful, and our life will definitely be happier!"
The picture shows the Niya field.
The whining of the wind, the roar of the engine, the "click" of the wall, the rumble of the rotary cultivator, the laughter of the villagers, the barking of dogs, the mooing of cows, the bleating of sheep...... The sound of spring echoes in the beautiful Niwu Canyon, playing a simple and gorgeous symphony of spring!
Tell the story of spring
There are many stories about Niya, the most famous of which are the legends about the wild men.
Led by the township cadre Pudan, we walked to the easternmost end of the Xia Ni House, where on the thorny hillside, there were two walls built of huge rocks not far from each other, the largest of which was about two meters long and nearly 1.5 meters high.
This site is called "Ziba Yesong", and legend has it that it was built by "wild men".
Legend has it that a long time ago, a group of people escaped to the nun house and settled here. As everyone knows, there are indigenous people here, that is, "wild people" - wild people are huge and stronger, and they are especially willing to imitate the work of outsiders, such as seeing this group of people building a wall during the day, and piling up this wall with huge rocks at night......
"There are not only 'wild people' in Niwu, but also 'King Gesar' who likes it here!" Pudan told us, and according to legend, the Iga Glacier and Iga Waterfall are related to King Gesar.
Although the story is undocumented, it also vaguely outlines the past of Nunwu's interactions with the outside world.
Next to the Yiga Glacier, we came across "Lao Du", a "Niwu man" who is very native to both Tibetan and Sichuanese.
In the spring of 1994, he was 31 years old when he went to Niwu from his hometown in Sichuan to work in Niwu, and was injured in the leg when he participated in the construction of the power station. Because of the inconvenient transportation to the outside world and the rugged mountain roads at that time, he borrowed to live in a local farmer's house to recuperate, and fell in love and married a Tibetan girl who took care of him, and gave birth to two children, both of whom are now married separately.
In the past 30 years, the peach blossoms have been red 30 times, Lao Du's children have made a trip, lived happily, opened a farmhouse, business is booming, and it has been completely integrated into the nun house. "In my most difficult time, Niwu accepted me, took care of me, and gave me sincere love and happiness, Niwu is the most beautiful place in my heart!"
On the ridges of the lower Niwu, 35-year-old Tashi Wangmu is doing farm work with a villager she knows well, she married here from Bagai Township, Bomi County, and has been living in Niwu for seven years. "Like the bagai, they are all farming-oriented, the climate is similar, the people are very welcoming, and my neighbors and I often dig cordyceps, pick matsutake mushrooms, and do farm work, and I feel very happy!"
Traffic, beauty and happiness are the main themes of the story of Niwu.
The photo shows a wedding being held in Niwu Township.
When we were about to leave Niwu, we were just in time for a spring wedding: the first prize winner of the "Pugu Qum" tourism ambassador competition in Nagqu City, Ram from Niwu Township, also entered the palace of marriage.
Under the snow-capped mountains, in the peach forest, in the fields, next to the village, the spring of the nun house is so grand and beautiful, all kinds of customs are blended and intertwined, and the spring color and spring sound are all-encompassing, showing the warmth, enthusiasm, romance and tolerance of the world to the fullest.
This is the earliest spring in northern Tibet!
Source: Tibet Daily WeChat public account