Kyidjam སྐྱིད་བྱམས . www.youtube.com . Song: Dza Chu Kha Drog Lu ( Dzachu Kham Nomadic Song) རྫ་ཆུ་ཁའི་འབྲོག་སླུ། 石渠山歌. Dzachuka : Vast expanses, touching sky, infused with clarity, Dzachuka is an area of northern Sichuan Province in the The glacial-fed Dzachu River, one of the region's major geographic features, becomes the Yalong, and then the Mekong on its journey to the South China Sea. The sky is close and clear, the air thin. The land is above the tree line, with the valley floors at 14000 feet above the sea. Summers are short with the monsoon spilling over from southeast Asia, watering a lush and green landscape. Wildflowers, medicinal and edible herbs abound. Walking on this thick carpet unleashes intoxicating perfumes. Winters bring a severe cold—dry and windy—changing the land to a stark brown. Snow falls occasionally and then usually blows away, evaporating quickly in the intense sun. The 18 tribes of Dzachuka are nomadic herders. Their famous Khampa attributes—fearless, tough, resilient, resourceful, independent, proud, devout, direct—serve them well in this challenging environment. They own large herds of yak, and also sheep, goats, and horses which are grazed in two or three distinct areas throughout the seasons. Life is lived on the edge of survival in this severe environment, but it is self-sustaining, and for the most part, still outside a cash economy. Most of these original-culture nomads do not read, and speak only
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