Wujiao Baima Tibetan Township (White Horse Tibetans)
A Baima Tibetan settlement in Wujiao Township, Jiuzhaigou County; the Baima people are an ancient Di-Qiang lineage, and their 'Chigezhou' (Caogai) Nuo mask dance is national intangible cultural heritage — in the first lunar month, performers in carved wooden masks go door to door to dispel evil and pray for blessings, a scene of striking primal power
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A Baima Tibetan settlement in Wujiao Township, Jiuzhaigou County; the Baima people are an ancient Di-Qiang lineage, and their 'Chigezhou' (Caogai) Nuo mask dance is on the national intangible cultural heritage list — in the first lunar month, performers wearing carved wooden masks go door to door to dispel evil and pray for blessings, a scene of striking primal power. The forests on the reserve's edge are giant panda habitat, and the villages keep traditional crafts such as wool felting and brewing zajiu (straw-sipped liquor).
Getting there: Self-drive from Jiuzhaigou County (approx. 60 km)
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More in Jiuzhaigou
- Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic Area
A Y-shaped valley in the southern Minshan Mountains, made up of Shuzheng Valley, Rize Valley and Zechawa Valley; named after the nine Tibetan villages inside, it was inscribed as a World Natural Heritage Site together with Huanglong in 1992
- Shuzheng Valley
The first valley of Jiuzhaigou, running from the valley entrance to Nuorilang Waterfall: the Shuzheng Lakes are twenty to thirty lakes big and small linked in tiers, trees grow thickly on the travertine dikes, and water mills and prayer-wheel houses stand along the stream — a living display of Tibetan water-mill culture within a natural landscape
- Rize Valley
The essence of the whole valley: Five Flower Lake shows peacock-feather-like iridescent colors thanks to the spectral differences of lakebed travertine, algae and sunken wood, and is called "the essence of Jiuzhaigou"
- Zechawa Valley
The longest and highest-altitude valley in Jiuzhaigou: Long Lake at its end is Jiuzhaigou's largest lake, fed by snowmelt with no outlet — "never full, never dry" — and revered by Tibetans as a holy lake
- Zharu Temple
The largest and only Tibetan Bon religion monastery in Jiuzhaigou, sitting beneath Baojing Rock (Treasure Mirror Rock) at the mouth of Zharu Valley; said to date from the Ming Dynasty, it has been the faith center of the valley's nine Tibetan villages through the ages
- Tibetan Villages (Shuzheng Village and others)
Villages of the indigenous Tibetans inside Jiuzhaigou — the park's name, 'Valley of Nine Villages,' comes from the nine villages in the valley