DTS Different World

                            Different World

In summer 2010, my parents and I traveled to a place which is located in Gansu province, but very close to Sichuan and Tibet. People who have been to that place told us we can find peace in Langmu.That place is so quiet; just a few people come from outside to visit it. Local people lack communication with outside world. Some people are nice, but some people are so different from us. We can not take photos and laugh in front of them, maybe they think we disrespect them. In this place, we should be careful of our behaviors in some situation.

  There is a famous temple that named LangMu. This temple is like our university, people who believe in Tibetan Buddhism would go to this temple for studying. People also learn English in the temple, for some people, they are better as English compared with Mandarin.In this area, we were impressed by the strong power of Tibetan Buddrism on people. The religion affects all the aspects of their life. They follow the rules, dress what rules told, all the life-style due to religion rules. Moreover, people would take long time to go to Tibet by foot.

   In order to experience Tibetan life, we went to another place which is far away from town. It was a long time by riding horse, but the river was so clean, red flowers scattered on the grass; we did not know the name of flowers; they told me all the flower in these places is called “GeiShang”, all things were fresh. We did not see any other people along the road. When we arrived at destiantion, we felt totally free. In this large place, there was only one family. They did not have house, their home just a tenant. They did not have bathroom, kitchen, bedroom. They cook, eat, sleep in one place. If they need a shower, they just jump into the river in summer time. There is no tv, no computer, they did not know what is going on out of their tenant. A woman who is a member of the family; she so surprised when she saw what we wear.Foreign people given her some clips as gift. Their life condition is so terrible. Their children just sleep in the basket, no nurtions meal, no tool, just a basket.

  They did not have any way to entertainment. The one thing to support them is belief. They read the book every day. They believe all the contents of the book. They are poor but they would saving money donate to temple. They live in the original life that they wake up when the sun rise up , they sleep when the sun goes down.

   I heared from person who traveled or lived in Tibet, they told me there are many place like this place in Tibet. They are away from modern technology, new thought and they are extremely poor in material level. But they inherit culture from ancestor and the culture do not affect by ethnic Han’s culture, environment is not polluted. I really think that these people need help, they need know what is going on in the world and children need education. But if this place become open, along with increasing number of people coming to visiting. It would cause bad influence on local enviroment, people will change. I am confused is it better for them to know the new things and improve their economics. We can not guarantee that travel industry will not bring bad influence on evironment and we can not sure that increasing number of visitors will not break the peace in this place. This is fact. Along the road to Langmu, we stopped by swap which red army passed by during long match. Because of polluted, swap becoming smaller now. Which can we choose environment or economic?