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Chapter 103 Fighting Aga

Walking along the sound, there is indeed a temple above, which seems to be still under repair.

Walking to the gate, two Tibetans at the gate politely said to several people: "The Guru Temple is under maintenance and tourists are not allowed to visit it. Go back."

Zeng Yungao went up and said, "I'm from the Bureau of Land and Resources, and I'm conducting a survey for land and resources. Can we go in and take a look, mainly outside?"

"outdoor?"

The man confirmed it, and after seeing Zeng Yungao nodded, he called and talked with the people in the temple.

Tibetans, especially the local Tibetans in the temple, respect the mages in the temple very much. It is okay to take pictures of buildings outside, but it is absolutely impossible to let others take pictures inside the Buddhist temple.

The people in the temple will also consider the impact, and may agree, but these local residents will not care which unit you belong to, and it will be over if you drive away.

After a while, the man came back and said, "You can go in."

Only then did the three of them enter the large Tibetan monastery under maintenance.

Since no guests were accepted, the temple seemed relatively empty, but the emptiness only meant that after entering the gate, the square in front of the main hall was relatively empty, few people left, and the roof of the main hall was definitely not empty, and it was even very crowded.

They heard someone singing in a chorus before, and that group of people is now above the main hall.

Before, I only thought of singing, but now it seems that others are singing and dancing at the same time, and they keep hitting the house with an object, so they are not afraid of being crushed.

A few people are walking forward now, Chen Xing asked Zeng Yungao.

"Brother Zeng, what are they doing?"

He also shook his head and said, "I don't know, this is the first time I've seen it, hey, Xu Di, don't look at it, just go and take a picture of the back."

"it is good."

Xu Di went back alone.

His side is relatively simple, but the road is a bit far away. According to the map, he has to go up the slope behind the temple to the place where the monks sleep and rest in the temple. Take a picture of the former religious site Why does it seem to be a field now?

On Zeng Yungao's side, it's simpler, just take photos of an existing palace to collect evidence.

Everyone didn't know what was going on before, but now that they are all in place, they can tell at a glance that the hall that needs to collect evidence must be abandoned, and most of it is still under repair now.

After Xu Di left, they watched dancing and singing on it for a while, and then walked to the place where they needed to collect evidence with great interest.

Chen Xing said: "I don't know what they sang, but it's quite nice."

"The melody of music has no national boundaries. If you only listen to the melody, the songs that can be passed down to the present are very good. I have heard many local folk songs in Xijiang before, and they are somewhat similar to what we hear now, but The tone is not so grand."

"Like religious music."

"Correct."

The two walked to a side hall to take pictures.

The roof of this side hall has collapsed, but the inside looks like it has been unoccupied for a long time, so no one should be injured.

Zeng Yungao took photos with a tablet computer to collect evidence, and said: "I heard that there was a big hailstorm here last month, I don't know if it was caused by the hailstones, otherwise this popular temple building would not have collapsed naturally. "

A total of three photos are taken, two close-ups and one distant view, so as to restore the style of the plot to the greatest extent.

They also use the software that Chen Xing saw in the office to take pictures, but it is not as clear as on the computer. After clicking to take a photo, there will be an arrow mark on the tablet. For example, you can only take pictures of buildings more than ten meters away. , the map will show that there is an arrow pointing to this building more than ten meters away in this direction.

Chen Xing liked this map very much, and enviously said: "Sure enough, the best things are not for civilian use."

"Where do civilians need so many functions? Isn't the current map software pretty good?"

"It's just a little inaccurate."

"Don't go to the deep mountains and old forests and you'll be fine."

As Zeng Yungao said, he had already taken three photos of this building and was marking the building number. At this time, a monk wearing a red monk robe came over and said, "Are you from the Land and Resources Bureau?"

Zeng Yun said kindly, "Hello."

"That's great. We're just going to ask about our land. Let's sit and talk in another place."

Chen Xing felt a little silly at once. He knew that Brother Zeng was just borrowing a name, and he was not a real employee of land resources. Even if they were, they were not local. How could he talk about such profound land issues with others.

But Zeng Yungao reacted quickly, and said: "You have to go to the county to ask yourself, we are in the city, and we are only responsible for checking the use of the land."

The monk was still a little disappointed.

"My name is Ao Ri Qi Lang, the master asked me to entertain you."

Zeng Yungao thought that there are still people taking pictures of him today, but he couldn’t be photographed paddling during working hours, so he shook his head and said, “We’re just shooting two places in the temple, and we’re leaving after we’re done, Ba He We still have a lot of work to do here, thank you."

Chen Xing was very interested, but he had to follow Zeng Yungao.

Ao Ri Qi Lang seemed to have nothing to do, he wanted to see them off as he walked along, and introduced along the way:
"Our Donggu Temple is designed according to the mandala of Tantric Buddhism. In front is the main hall under repair. There are three floors in total. The bottom floor is Tibetan style, the middle floor is Chinese style, and the top floor is Nepalese style. However, the foundation of the overall design is our Tibetan people. national art and culture.”

Chen Xing asked, "What are they doing up there?"

He was very curious why there was a large group of people singing and dancing on the roof and moving back and forth so neatly, wouldn't they be afraid that the house would collapse due to resonance?

"Beating Aga, this is a traditional way for us Tibetans to repair the ground and roof."

Ao Riqilang pointed to the building materials on the open space and said:

"This is a kind of clay unique to our plateau. It is compacted on the paved stones through repeated beatings to form a solid ground. The roof built in this way can be as smooth as marble and durable. It will not break for a thousand years." .”

"How long will it take to hit and trample like this?" Chen Xing asked.

"From the largest stones, to the small stones and then to the clay, it took about a month of beating the layers like this."

Chen Xing nodded.

In addition to being a bit troublesome, this traditional construction method is as safe as reinforced concrete floors.

With several floors of building materials and hundreds of people hammering repeatedly for a month, Chen Xing really couldn't think of any other way to knock down such a house except for natural disasters and a long time.

What's even more rare is that if the house collapses in the future, these building materials will just return to ashes.

They were originally just stones and clay, without any modern materials.

(End of this chapter)