★ It is a book about fashion, culture and tourism, full of collection and historical values!
★ With a unique ingenious structural framework, the book agrees exactly with human geographical characteristics of Qinghai. It sketches a panoramic view of the magnificent landscape and cultural customs of Qinghai on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with the five cultural landscape belts as the lines of longitude, the four sections of Memories, Culture, Attractions and Folk as the latitude, and the profound Tibetan cultural history and colorful multi-ethnic customs of the plateau as the longitudinal depth.

Generally viewed in human geography, Qinghai looks just like a huge set of prayer flags. The five cultural landscape belts with unique features radiate from its center Xining, namely “Hehuang Valley” full of folk customs, which has been known as the gateway from Central China to Tibet since ancient times, the “Qinghai Lake Area” with rippling blue waves and vast green grass, the road for welcoming Buddha, which makes one dream back to “Tang-Tubo Passage” in the Tang Dynasty, the “Yellow River Basin” which captures farming and pastoral customs and plateau culture, and “Qinghai-Tibet Line” which allows one to have polar experience and perception of life.
The five cultural landscape belts look like five colorful prayer flags flying in the air, with the attractions like five-colored rlung rta fluttering in the wind…

Tang Yun is a senior female Tibetan book writer. She serves as a member of China Writers Association with Master’s degrees in medicine and literature. Ms. Tang has published lots of books, such as a collection of stories Cotton Boll, collections of essays Our Snail House and Birds and Domino of Time, long cultural proses Left Bank of Yellow River, Tibet of One and Another Time in North China, human geography books The Ethereal Qinghai and The Ethereal Origin of Yellow River, novels Anchovy and Padma Paramita, and a translation Languages in the World of Thinking. Her master work Tibet of One is publicly praised by and popular among Tibetan culture loves and Tibetan tourists. She wrote special features on Tibet for brand publications such as Chinese National Geography, which won multiple prizes. She lives in Beijing and serves PLA Academy of Arts there now.