The Gruelling Life Of A Tibetan Farmer

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@panda-p3f Ай бұрын

Southern Tibet is actually the most suitable place for human survival in the whole of Tibet. It is located on the south side of the Himalayas. In summer, the southern Tibet region is warm and rainy due to the southwest monsoon blowing from the Indian Ocean with a lot of moisture and heat. Many subtropical crops can be grown here. It is so fertile that it is known as the "Jiangnan" of Tibet. Southern Tibet is the place with the most complete mountain vertical natural zones in the world, with a forest coverage rate of 90%. It is warm and humid all year round, with excellent water and heat conditions. It is one of the regions with the largest precipitation in the world. However, the current southern Tibet region is still the poorest region under the jurisdiction of India. You should know that India's per capita GDP in 2022 is 2388.6 US dollars, while our per capita GDP in the same period is 12,700 US dollars, which is nearly 5.3 times that of India. In 2023, the population of southern Tibet (including the Changlang District in the northeastern state) is 1.38 million, and this is the background that India has immigrated about 1 million people to southern Tibet. Due to India's relatively backward infrastructure, there are no railways in southern Tibet, and the roads are only longitudinal roads along the river valley, and there are no transverse roads. Basically, except for the military system, India has seriously insufficient investment in civil infrastructure in southern Tibet, which means that it has basically retained many of the previous traditional operating models. The current southern Tibet is still roughly the not-too-distant past of the entire Tibet (old Tibet), even though southern Tibet has more natural endowments than the entire Tibet, superior conditions, and unlimited development potential. In summary, after the short-lived Tubo Empire, the entire plateau was shattered. The fundamental reason is that local resources cannot support a unified operating mechanism. It can only be fragmented and maintain basic survival through constant annexation between different fragments, resource competition, and competition rules (maintaining balance) that are close to the law of the jungle and survival of the fittest in nature. This includes maintaining the specific number of people who can survive. You should know that there is a data that the population of Tibet was only 1.15 million in 1951, while other data said that the population of Tibet was about 940,000 in 1736. That is to say, in 200 years, from ancient times to modern times, it has entered modern society, and the population of the plateau has basically not increased much. To be honest, from the perspective of the plateau ethnic groups, after the rise of Tubo, it went south in one fell swoop to control the Ganges Plain and the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River (Northeastern States), and then Tibetanized the local ethnic groups in the Ganges, Yarlung Zangbo River, and the Bay of Bengal Plain, and its national history will be rewritten. Now, every Chinese nation has a chance, including the ethnic groups on the plateau. The ethnic groups on the plateau can now rely on modern technology and all-round injections from the inland to change their harsh living conditions for thousands of years. The Indians (indigenous peoples) in the reservations in the United States have no chance to rise in the next few hundred years, and it is even hard to say whether they will still exist in a few hundred years. Not every ethnic group, like our main ethnic group, regards "never abandon, never give up" as the basic concept of national survival.

@StPauli57Ghetto Ай бұрын

Wow, thank you i didnt know about thaz

@RamSailaGremba 25 күн бұрын

What is name of background music?....

@panda-p3f Ай бұрын

From 2012 to 2021, Tibet's GDP grew by an average of 9.5% per year, 2.9 percentage points higher than the national average, and its economic growth rate has been at the forefront of the country for many consecutive years. Since 2021, Tibet's GDP has grown from 190 billion yuan to 240 billion yuan last year, and its per capita GDP has increased from 52,300 yuan to 60,000 yuan. The growth rate of per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents has remained at the forefront of the country for many years. In 2023, Tibet received 55.17 million domestic and foreign tourists, an increase of 83.7% over 2022. It is still expected to achieve double-digit growth in 2024.

@nyimatsering2757 Ай бұрын

What's the point having growth in GDP if Tibetans doesn't have freedom of speech and practice their own religious beliefs and traditions..😂😂😂, So, please, change your prospective .." In one sentence, we Tibetans are well capable of looking after ourselves economy .."So, please ! Leave our motherland soon as possible " China is not invited ... PERIOD !

@panda-p3f Ай бұрын

@@nyimatsering2757 In 2023, the per capita GDP of the Tibet Autonomous Region has reached 65,600 yuan (9,237 US dollars). The countries bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region are: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Pakistan. According to IMF data, Wikipedia query, in 2023, India 2,601 US dollars, Nepal 1,377 US dollars, Bhutan 3,497 US dollars, Myanmar 1,180 US dollars, Pakistan 1,658 US dollars, The state has invested huge human, material and financial resources to promote and develop Tibet's excellent traditional culture. Tibetan language and writing are widely used. Precious books such as "The Biography of King Gesar" have been rescued and sorted. Nearly 800 projects such as thangka, Tibetan opera, and Tibetan medicine have been included in the intangible cultural heritage. The religious beliefs of people of all ethnic groups are fully respected. More than 1,700 temples in the region have achieved full coverage of water, electricity, network, fire protection and other facilities. 46,000 monks and nuns have enjoyed government social security. Temples and monuments such as the Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple have been repaired and protected. All normal religious activities conducted by Tibetans and other ethnic citizens in religious venues and in their own homes in accordance with religious customs are managed by religious groups and citizens themselves and are protected by law. For example, monks and nuns can independently study scriptures, chant scriptures, debate scriptures, receive precepts, receive initiations, practice, impart teachings, touch the head and pray for blessings in Tibetan Buddhist temples. Religious citizens can freely set up scripture halls and Buddhist shrines at home, invite monks and nuns from temples to perform rituals, or go to temples, sacred mountains and sacred lakes to worship. In Tibet, you can see religious believers prostrating themselves, various shapes of incense burners, hanging prayer flags and piled up Mani stones everywhere. Tibetan people enjoy full freedom to carry out normal religious activities. China has more than 3,800 Tibetan Buddhist temples and more than 160,000 monks and nuns, including more than 1,700 living Buddhas.

@panda-p3f Ай бұрын

@@nyimatsering2757 Dalai Lama: We are not seeking Tibetan independence.

@panda-p3f Ай бұрын

@@nyimatsering2757 Southern Tibet belongs to Tibet, why don't you ask India to leave Southern Tibet?

@panda-p3f Ай бұрын

In the old Tibet period in the 1940s, more than 90% of the Tibetan people were struggling in dire straits, while the old Tibetan nobles who occupied the high ground of wealth lived a life of extravagance. With a history of more than 400 years, the only relatively well-preserved manor of the three major lords in old Tibet is called Pala Manor, located in Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, and its full name is "Banjo Lhunpo Manor". Pala Manor belongs to the famous Pala family. Five members of the Pala family have served as Kalons in charge of Tibetan affairs in the Tibetan government. The wealth of the Pala family is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. At the end of the 19th century, the Pala family owned as many as 37 manors, more than 3,000 serfs, 15,000 acres of land, and more than 14,000 livestock. Many people have a stereotype about Tibet: Tibetan nobles can only live a traditional life and do not know how to keep up with the international community. In fact, many children of the old Tibetan nobles would go to study in Western countries such as Britain and France under the arrangement of their elders. After they returned from studying abroad, traces of Westernization can be seen everywhere in their lives. The two British-imported phonographs in the bedroom and the full set of British and French imported cosmetics and perfumes on the hostess's dressing table silently bear witness to this. LV bags and French handmade capes are casually hung on the hostess's hanger, and hand-ground coffee beans are placed in the cabinet next to her. It is not difficult to see from these details of life that the nobles at that time kept a high degree of synchronization with the trend in enjoying life. In the 1940s, the old aristocratic population accounted for less than 5% of the total population of Tibet. These 5% of the aristocrats enjoyed more than 80% of the social wealth of the entire Tibet with peace of mind. Although more than 90% of the people in Tibet were still struggling on the survival line at that time. Before the liberation of Tibet, the upper class of old Tibet was composed of officials, monks and nobles, commonly known as the "three major lords". The three major lords controlled most of the wealth in Tibet.

@panda-p3f Ай бұрын

Tibet has a permanent population of less than 3.7 million and a total GDP of 240 billion; and the transfer payment in 2023 is 227.1 billion, which means an average transfer payment of 62,400 per capita. The total mileage of roads open to traffic is 124,000 kilometers, and the total mileage of railways open to traffic is 1,359 kilometers. In old Tibet, there was no industry, no modern transportation systems such as roads, railways, and aviation, no systematic modernized agriculture, animal husbandry system, and no systematic, modernized education and health system. In old Tibet, animal husbandry was the main agriculture, in the nomadic pastures of traditional small-scale animal husbandry, no epidemic prevention and health system, no (silage) grass storage wintering system, and no modern pasture management and maintenance technology, and tribes would often fall into bloody killings and plundering due to the competition for pastures and water sources. Tibetan areas used to not produce vegetables, so for thousands of years, beef and mutton, plus highland barley produced in agricultural areas, have been the staple food of Tibetans. And everyone knows what will happen to people's health if they don't eat vegetables for decades. In fact, in 1959, the average life expectancy of all Tibetans was only 35.5 years. The current average life expectancy of all (western) Tibetans has reached 72.19 years, which is based on the 1,655 health institutions in the region at the end of (2022) (including 182 hospitals, 674 township (town) health centers, 16 community health service centers (stations), 82 disease prevention and control centers, and 34 maternal and child health hospitals (stations)), 19,992 beds in medical and health institutions, 26,127 health technicians, and convenient chain drug stores widely distributed in cities, districts, counties, towns, and townships throughout Tibet. This is achieved under the modern health care system. Just to give one example, the plateau regional disease - rheumatism; even now, compared with old Tibet, the medical system, thermal insulation system (heating system, evolved heating system), transportation system, food, and sanitation system are all vastly different today, but once people in the plateau are in their forties or fifties, many of them will have hunched backs and use crutches - they may even walk with their backs hunched at 90 degrees, which means that high-altitude rheumatic bone disease is still a very common and fatal disease on the plateau. What was it like in the past?