[Tibetan Story] The song left in my heart: "Plateau Red" in northern Tibet has quietly become less

In recent years, as a volunteer of the Beijing Tibetan aid worker association, I was surprised to see the "plateau red" staying on the cheeks on the cheeks of northern Tibetan girls in the Picassians of the Polygon of Tibetan herdsmen. , It looks more beautiful.

In the past, when people mentioned Tibet, when they mentioned the northern Tibet Plateau, they would think of the red face of the locals. Slowly, the plateau red began to carry more and more meanings, becoming the pure, flawless, beautiful and beautiful symbol of Tibetan girls.

This is the "Plateau Red" mark on a shepherd in Nima County, northern Tibet (Photo by Tang Zhaoming in 2001)

This "plateau red" is also called red blood silk. This is a "rouge" staying on the cheeks of young girls due to the hypoxic environment and strong ultraviolet radiation. Especially living in the northern Tibet Plateau for a long time, whether it is a Tibetan or Han nationality, this "rouge" that is difficult to remove on the cheeks will be left on their cheeks.

It is understood that in the northern Tibet Plateau with an average altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level, because the oxygen content is only half of the sea level, the skin's skin has insufficient oxygen; and due to the hypoxia of the cells, the number of red blood cells has increased relatively. Specifically, people's cheeks are lacking enough oxygen for a long time to make intracellular hypoxia. In this way, a red blood cells will carry a oxygen molecule, and the human body will automatically increase red blood cells to meet the needs of its oxygen, and red pigment is added to the face. Coupled with the large temperature difference between morning and evening, the solar ultraviolet radiation is strong, the reasons for cold and heat, and the sunlight shot on the face, it also forms a "plateau red" that people often call.

In modern medicine, plateau red is included in the category of "capillaries", and traditional Chinese medicine has included it in the category of spots (generally called erythema). At present, more people call it "red blood".

In the midsummer in 2009, I saw the "Beautiful Rilation" shops in the newly opened Tibet Tibet Shuanghu Special District (now Shuanghu County). It is very surprising to see the development and changes in Shuanghu's development over the years and several times!

This is the newly opened Tibetan Shuanghu Special District (now Shuanghu County) "Beautiful Nature" shop. The shelves are filled with various makeup daily necessities, including skin care products, and under the shelves are the clothing sold by the way. After graduating from a young Hunan female young high school, she came here to help parents open a store to operate makeup daily supplies (Photo by Tang Zhaoming in 2009)

The shop from Hunan Yumi Township advocated that the lady told me that she and her husband opened the first "Family Music Supermarket" here in January 2008. Seeing that cosmetics including skin care products here were very popular, so she opened the first one. The two "beautiful dailyization" stores and let the daughter who just graduated from high school operate.

Ms. Zhang, who did not want to disclose her name, said: "Now the living conditions are good. The Tibetan Han girls here are willing to buy 'beauty' cosmetics, and they are not inferior to women in big cities."

In the past year, Ms. Zhang and her husband "go to the winter" like migratory birds. In just one summer, the money made by cosmetics and other products operated in supermarkets in the supermarket alone is far more than opening a store in Hunan's hometown in Hunan.

Yu Zhen, a cadre of Naqu City, northern Tibet, who had studied at Beijing Foreign Languages ​​University for many years, said that many people in Tibet now go out of the plateau to study and work in the Mainland. The heart of beauty also changed a lot. They use beauty skin care products to protect cheek skin is an indispensable content.

This is now no "plateau red", the young female young woman in Tibetan, Tibetan (May 21, 2015)

Northern Tibetan girls have become less "plateau red", and the condensation of condensation and peach blossoms have become more. This has a great relationship with people's living habits and living conditions.

In the past, people liked the warmth of the sun in the sun. At that time, people did not understand that the ultraviolet rays of the plateau sunlight were very strong. As people know more and more about science and culture, they know more about how to protect themselves. Now few people have been exposed to the sun for a long time.

This is the youth shepherd in Sancun, Shenza Town, Shenza County, Tibet, wearing a sunscreen mask and a scarf squeezing milk (Photo Photo in the summer of 2009)

I saw in the Grassland of northern Tibet. The shepherds now like to wear hats or headscarves and masks, covering myself tightly, only two big eyes, and no longer accept the strong sunlight on the face. radiation.

Heart of beauty in everyone. From the 1960s, how did women care for women in northern Tibetan?

This is a Tibetan woman who used yak milk to protect the skin in the past of Wenba County, Nima County, Tibet (Photo by Tang Zhaoming in 2001)

According to reports, at that time, the skin care cream circulated in Tibet was called "Doujia". Although it can also protect the skin on the face of Tibetan women, it is very cumbersome to make, and it is inconvenient to use.

The "pile and plus" raw materials are mainly made of tea, honey, brown sugar, butter, etc., and soaked with milk or milk residue water. Tea has chlorophyll and vitamins. Milk, butter, and honey have the effect of moisturizing the skin. The skin care cream used by them mainly has special functions of sun protection.

Take a little skin cream in this black skin cream and add a few drops of water to stir. In addition to the circles and lips, makeup is black and black, and it will not be uninstalled for several days. Essence The "mask" of black cream is formed day by day. Women who do not remove makeup for a long time will wash off the ointment on their faces every holiday, so the skin after "removing makeup" is white and tender, red and white. I went to the hometown in Shenza County, north of Tibet. I saw the shepherd girl using a similar skin care cream called "Muzi". It is crushed by herbaceous plants, stirred with brown sugar and milk into a paste to protect the skin on the face. At first glance, it looks like a "black face" of the opera.

Northern Tibetan women living in the "roof of the world" also have a heart love. But the bone of the plateau, the permeable wind sand, the strong ultraviolet radiation and other nature jointly urged their delicate faces like flowers. Even so, in this harsh living environment, they can strive for limited conditions as much as possible and use homemade skin care products to retain their youth.

This is at the grassland horse racing event held in Naqu Town, northern Tibet. Now there is no "Pigram Red" Tibetan woman who has no "Pigrak" in a large "pot village dance" (Photo by Tang Zhaoming on August 10, 2013)

Now the situation is completely different. With the gradual improvement of living standards and a large number of convenient transportation and logistics and various skin care products, it provides people with great convenience for skin care, and the "plateau red" northern Tibet has quietly become less.

Speaking of the past "plateau red", I have such a touching story.

It was 2019. I sorted out a previous photo and sent it on the WeChat circle of friends. This is a photo of a grassland lady. They have a deep mark on the "plateau red" on their cheeks. Once released, it has won countless people. Some people suggest that I should find the younger sisters of the year and understand their current situation.

Therefore, I asked friends such as the Beast Shi Da Da Ren Shida and other friends at Nima County, Tibet. I didn't expect to have a reply after half a month. Ji Renshida called and said, "You let the younger sisters find the helper!"

It's really a coincidence. It turned out that the big girl in the photo Suzhu was the same classmate of Rinshida in Nima County Primary School. As a result, the story of this 30 years ago.

This is the little sister in the grassland of Zhuowa Township, the Ministry of Culture in Northern Tibet (now Nima County). The deep mark on their cheeks has the "Plateau Red" (Photo Photo by Tang Zhaoming 1989)

It was the last few days at the end of the age of 1989. I followed the construction work site of the grass -roots regime construction work of the Naitou area (now Naqu City) in Tibet to visit the Ministry of Culture (now Nima County) to visit. When I came to Zhuowa Township, I suddenly brightened in front of my eyes: the grassland girl who played on the snow, three or five years old, wearing a colorful lamb fur, weeping horny braids, and a dark purple "plateau red" printed on the cheeks. Essence That's the most beautiful landscape on the grassland. I can't help but press the camera shutter in my hand ...

Thirty years later, when I sorted out the previous photos, I finally found this moment when I was deeply imprinted in my mind.

The younger sister of that year, the big name is Suo Zhu, graduated from the secondary vocational and technical school in Naqu area in northern Tibet, and currently works at the Baying County Beast Defense Station in Bashui County, Naqu City. He is currently working in Nima County, Naqu City, northern Tibet. Both were members of the Communist Party and both established a happy and happy family.

This is the White Marram family who interviewed Daughter -in -law in Lhasa. Baimaham is the sister in the photo of the "Plateau Red" grassland younger sister taken 30 years ago by Tang Zhaoming (provided by Tang Zhaoming, taken on September 22, 2019)

In the midsummer in 2019, I was a volunteer of the Beijing Jianzang Aid Worker Association to send a plateau to pick up the car to the herdsmen north. I happened to see the Bailimalam couple who brought a 4 -year -old daughter to see a doctor in Lhasa.

White Marram, who had already retreated on the cheeks, said excitedly, "I did not expect that my sister and I still had photos when they were young, which was too precious! Because it not only witnessed our growth, but also witnessed the 30 years of Tibetan for 30 years. The huge change happened. "

This is a shepherd girl traveling in Shenza County, Tibet. It uses red pigments to coat the round "plateau red" on the cheeks to be used as a mark of Midea (Photo by Tang Zhaoming 1991)

In the past, the "plateau red", which was regarded as a gift from the Northern Tibetan, has been deeply imprinted in people's memory. In Shenza County and other places in northern Tibet, I saw the shepherd girl who traveling several times. I deliberately applied the round "plateau red" with red pigments on my face. culture.

Today, the "plateau red" northern Tibet has quietly become less. This is the new change of the times, and it is a huge change in the life of the people of northern Tibet!

Source: China Tibet

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