8. Tsedang, Tibet—Origin of Tibet
Posted in 10 most worth-visiting towns in China on 01/05/2010 02:26 am by admin
Tsedang is known as the most beautiful town in Tibet. It is also the origin of Tibetan people. Legends say there once was a sacred mountain named Gongbu in ancient Tibet. On the mountain, there were three caves, where respectively inhabited a Bodhisatva, a beautiful siren and a celestial being who was turned into a monkey for violations. Later, the monkey married the siren in light of will of the Bodhisatva. Offspring of the monkey later involved into today’s Tibetan nationality. And the Gongbu Moutain in Tsedang, 200 miles southeast of Lhasa (capital of Tibet), has been regarded to be the place where the history of Tibet began.
Today, in Tsedang, there do exist a monkey cave covered with scriptures. Together, there is also the first farmland and the first house. Story has it that the farmland was given to the monkey by god and was blessed, so every planting season, people would fetch a handful of earth in this land to their own fields, praying for a good harvest. And the first house, it is said to be the first palace of the first king of Tibet. Although this palace is now a ruin, people can still behold its awe-stricken topography and amazing, 100 percent natural landscape.
