"Jiaju Tibetan Village" Fairy Tale World on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

The blue sky is high and wide, the meadows are fat and fat, the snow-capped mountains are rolling, the virgin forest is lightly caged by mist, and the beautiful Jiaju Tibetan Village on the bank of Dajinchuan in Danba County is a fairy tale world that is kept in the mountains and unknown to people, which is not vulgar and touching. For thousands of years, it has been quietly hidden in the Hengduan mountains, far away from the hubbub, letting time flow, but always guarding its own primitive and mysterious.

Jiaju Tibetan Village

Jiaju Tibetan Village is located in Danba County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province. It is a little-known paradise hidden in the Hengduan Mountains. Its magnificent and charming scenery, original and mysterious beauty, quiet rural houses and unique ancient stone towers show its magic and beauty.

There are people in the clouds

"Jiaju" means a hundred families in Tibetan. The Tibetan village covers an area of about 5 square kilometers and is home to more than 14 families, also known as Jiarong Tibetans. Jiaju Tibetan Village is the most distinctive place in Jiarong Tibetan Village. Hundreds of residential buildings blend in with the natural environment in a random way. In the misty valley, accompanied by occasional gurgling streams, a wonderful picture of a dynamic cottage is displayed in front of your eyes.

One house after another is randomly scattered among valleys and jungles. The beauty of Jiaju Tibetan Village is simple, casual and mysterious, just like another fairyland on earth.

Xianju Jiaju Tibetan Village in the Cloud

Jiaju Tibetan Village House is mainly composed of red and white colors, which are bright and strong. The house is built according to the mountain situation, and there is a small white tower in each corner of the house, representing mountains, trees, water and land respectively. There will be prayer flags inserted on the small white tower, because these unique folk customs make Jiaju Tibetan Village more beautiful and unique.

looking down from the viewing platform, the whole mountain village is surrounded by mountains, and the collectors' buildings with beautiful shapes and quaint features are looming in the jungle.

Diaolou Zhaizhai House has a unique style

Jiaju Tibetan Zhaizhai House basically preserves the characteristics of Jiarong Tibetan folk houses, with the wooden frame and eaves all red, and the walls above the second floor are painted white or the primary colors of the walls alternate with white. Although the times have changed and some Tibetan buildings have changed, it does not affect its traditional style and Tibetan charm.

Zhai Lou usually sits facing south, mainly made of stone and wood, with one building for each household, some in groups of three or five, and some alone. From a distance, each Tibetan building looks like a devout Buddhist sitting cross-legged and chanting scriptures. According to Brother, a collector, on the eve of the Spring Festival every year, the owner of the Tibetan building will fry the local "white mud" as the main raw material through a formula to make a white dye, and carefully paint the wall of the Tibetan building, making the whole Tibetan village look like a white dress.

Although the construction of the Tibetan building seems disorderly, it has formed a natural, harmonious, beautiful and poetic picture. Tibetan buildings are all made of stone and wood, with 3-5 storeys of towers, white and light camel exterior walls, red eaves and wooden walls, and beautiful Tibetan patterns painted on window frames.

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