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Tang Princess of Wencheng
In Qinghai Lake area, there’re many stories about Tang Princess of Wencheng.
At 638AD, Songtsen Gampo, the king of Tubo, proposed intermarriage with
Tang Dynasty. At that time, the emperor promised Wencheng Princess to
be his wife. At 640AD, Ludongzan, a head in Tubo, was authorized to meet
the princess in Chang’an. In Jan, 641AD, the princess and followers, with
company of Ludongzan and Li Dao-zong, who was a minister in Tang Dynasty,
started the journey for Lhasa . On the way, many vivid legends were left.
The most famous one is that the princess missed her hometown very much;
as a result her tears fell down and flew into Daotang River. Another is
that in order to enforce determination  of
entering Tibet, the princess threw away the divine Riyue Mirrow. From
then on, that place(Chiling) was renamed Riyue Mount. The intermarriage
of the princess and Songtsen Gampo had a great influence in the history.
Wang Luo-bin
One of Wang Luo-bin’s most famous songs is “In That Distant Place”, which
was created in Qinghai Lake area in 1930s. At that time, Mr Wang got inspiration
by beautiful grassland and enthusiastic Tibetan girls in Jinyintan, Haiyan
County. Even nowadays, this love song is still very popular.
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