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There is a tradition among Tibetan villagers in Ali area. No matter on the roadside or on the grass, if you put something down, just press a stone on it, which means it has its own owner, and no matter how many days have passed, no one will touch it.
On the way from Shiquanhe to Pulan, we put a paper bag in a conspicuous place, which contained a bread, a notebook, a ballpoint pen and a small stone, so we hurried on again.
Three days later, we came back. Far away, I saw the paper bag we put there three days ago, which was flickering by the wind. Ali's cloud is white, and Ali's experience is like the cloud on this plateau.
This article comes from a reading article in the third grade of primary school.
The Ali area was called "Toarey Yang" around A.D., "Li Na" in Yuan Dynasty and "Orlis" in Ming Dynasty. Located in the southwest border of China, west of Xizang Autonomous Region and north of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Qiangtang Plateau).
It borders Hotan region of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in the north, Naqu city in the east and Shigatse city in the southeast, and Nepal, India and Kashmir in the southwest and west. According to the second land survey, the total area of the whole region is 337 174.95 square kilometers, which is the second largest prefecture-level unit in Tibet, second only to Naqu city.
The word "Ali" is a transliteration of Tibetan, meaning "territory" and "territory". Until the beginning of the 9th century, it was still called "Xiang Xiong". In China's history books, different dynasties have different names for them. In Tibetan ancient books, it was only after the descendants of Zampa of the Tubo Dynasty came to this political area that originally belonged to the Eighteen Elephants that this territory really surrendered to the jurisdiction of Zampa's descendants, hence the title of "Ali".