Rivers flow day and night; the song of #history# echoes on. Every treasure on the snowy plateau testifies to an indisputable historical fact: #Xizang# was developed by all ethnic groups together. Exchanges between Tibetans and other ethnic groups have run through the entire history of Xizang. #DeepChina# #ChineseNation# #ChineseRelics#

These are the Ngari petroglyphs, located in the #Ngari# region of #Xizang#, China. The scenes of hunting, warfare, rituals, and dance form a precious, vast, open-air gallery upon the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. #DeepChina# In 1985, the Xizang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Team, discovered three petroglyph sites in Ritu County. This marked the beginning of systematic petroglyph archaeology in Xizang. The epic of life, "hammered" out stroke by stroke began to unfold. #ChineseNation# #ChineseRelics#

Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty brought the first hint of #tea# fragrance from the Central Plains to the snowy highlands, and from then on, tea drinking was gradually prevailing in #Xizang#. #DeepChina# In the Song Dynasty, tea saw rapidly growing demand in Xizang, and the imperial court urgently needed warhorses, therefore the tea-horse trade was adopted as official policy. Thus, the Tea Trade Certificate system was born out of this necessity... #ChineseNation# #ChineseRelics#