Historical legends of Liu Tang

Princess Wencheng is homesick ―― Looking back at the East and gazing at Chang 'an, over time, the trunk slowly turns left. Therefore, people also call it "left-handed willow". According to legend, there are no willows in Tibet. When Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty arrived in Lhasa, she planted willow branches around Jokhang Temple as a gift from the Queen when Eight Clerks left. Since then, the Liugenzha Plateau in the Tang Dynasty has continued to multiply, continuing the family relationship between China and Tibet 1300 years.

1360 years ago, Princess Wencheng bid farewell to Chang 'an, the prosperous capital of the Tang Dynasty, and married Songzan Gambu, the king of Tubo. This story about the marriage between Han and Tibet not only opened a new chapter in the ethnic relations between Han and Tibet, but also brought more developed technologies such as medicine, textile, calendar, paper making and pottery making to the snowy plateau through the virtuous Princess Wencheng, which promoted the development of Tibet, and Princess Wencheng was therefore loved by the Han and Tibetan people. Up to now, portraits and statues of Princess Wencheng can be seen everywhere in Tibet Museum, Jokhang Temple and Potala Palace. The traditional Tibetan opera Princess Wencheng has been staged again and again, and people often tell her story in novels, poems and oral literature.