【川藏日记四】Today, I Visited a Typical Polyandry Family; 今天我有幸碰到了非常幸福的西藏一妻多夫家庭，非常羡慕他们的美好生活。

Tashi Delek from beautiful Kangding City! Today, I would like to show you my experience in Kangding, the city famous for the love song, Kangding Love Song. https://www.tibettravel.org/

First, I visited Paoma Mountain, which was mentioned in the Kangding Love Song. Paoma Mountain is about 8.8km away from Kangding city. You can take a cable car up the mountain. There is a small monastery with 3 monks living there. It’s a monastery of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

Also, there is a horse racing area not far from the monastery. Kangding is a major habitation for Khampa Tibetans, who are good at horsing racing, singing, and dancing. If you visit here during festivals, you can enjoy an exciting Tibetan horse racing game.

After that, I kept driving to Xinduqiao, the Paradise for photographers on G318 Sichuan Tibet Highway.

Here you can enjoy the splendid views of Tibetan villages scattered around the mountain valleys with the holy Mount Gongga as the background. Mount Gongga, also called Minya Konka in Tibetan, is the highest mountain in Sichuan province at 7,556 meters above sea level and is praised as the King of Mountains in the Sichuan region.

Why I said this was a beautiful day was not only because of the amazing natural landscapes on the way but also because I got closer and closer to Lhasa, my hometown.

Once I crossed Zheduo Mountain (4,962 meters) on the way from Kangding to Yajiang, I got rid of the ’low altitude sickness’.

Interesting, right?

For normal people who live outside the plateau, they will feel headache and get high altitude sickness while entering Tibet. However, for our Tibetans, who live in the Tibet plateau for a long time, when we get to places at a lower altitude, like Chengdu (only 500 meters above sea level), we will feel uncomfortable, too.

So I didn’t get “low altitude sickness” any longer after I had crossed the Zheduo Mountain from east to west. I entered the real Tibetan area, the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. Great!

The wonderful day ended up at the Buzhu Three Sisters Guesthouse in Yajiang County. It is a very popular guesthouse among overland travelers and cyclists who travel along the G318 highway to Lhasa. You can enjoy real cost-effective accommodation and meal services in this traditional Tibetan guesthouse. What more special is that you can learn the unique Tibetan wedding custom here. The owner’s family is a typical polyandry family, which means the sister has one mother and two fathers. In Shigatse, we also have the same custom like this.

扎西德勒！这是来自美丽的康定的问候。

今天，我将给大家分享我在康定的经历。这是一座因为《康定情歌》而远近闻名的城市。

首先，我参观了《康定情歌》中提到的跑马山。跑马山离康定市区约8.8公里。你可以坐缆车上山。山上一个小寺院，住着3个僧人。这是藏传佛教格鲁巴派的寺院。

另外，离寺院不远处有一个赛马坪。康定是康巴藏民的主要居住地，康巴藏民擅长赛马、唱歌、跳舞。如果你在节日期间来这里，可以欣赏到精彩的藏族赛马比赛。

之后，我继续驱车前往G318川藏公路上有一目的地， 新都桥。这里被誉为摄影爱好者的天堂。

在新都桥，你可以欣赏到散落在山谷中的藏族村落与背景中圣洁的贡嘎山相辉映的绝美景色。贡嘎山，藏语也叫岷雅贡嘎，是四川省最高的山峰，其海拔7556米，被誉为四川地区的山中之王。

为什么我说这天是个美丽的日子，不仅是因为一路上令人惊叹的自然景观，还因为我离我的家乡拉萨越来越近了。

从康定到雅江，一旦翻过折多山（海拔4962米），我就摆脱了 "醉氧"反应。

有意思吧？

对于生活在高原之外的普通人来说，进入青藏高原等高海拔地区的时候会觉得头疼，出现高原反应。但是，对于我们长期生活在青藏高原的藏族人来说，到了海拔较低的地方，比如成都（海拔只有500米），也会觉得不舒服，俗称醉氧。

当我从东到西翻越了折多山，进去真正的藏区（青藏高原东部）之后，就再也没有醉氧反应了。太好了!

精彩的一天结束在雅江县的布珠三姐妹民宿。这是一家非常受318川藏线旅行者和骑行者欢迎的民宿。在这个传统的藏式民居里，您可以享受到真正高性价比的住宿和餐饮服务。更特别的是，你可以在这里了解藏族独特的婚礼习俗。三姐妹的家庭是典型的一妻多夫制家庭，她们有一位妈妈和两个爸爸。这和西藏日喀则地区的婚俗相似。

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