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Huangnan 黄南Huángnán
Rebgong, the 'golden valley' of Tibetan thangka painters
- Type
- Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Region
- Qinghai
- Seat
- Tongren
- Listed sites
- 42 rated 4A · 4 national heritage
About Huangnan
Huangnan, 'south of the Yellow River', is centred on Tongren, called Rebgong in Tibetan, where Rongwo Monastery rises over a valley of Tibetan and Tu villages whose painters and sculptors practise the Regong arts, UNESCO-listed in 2009. Close by, the Bao'an Fort Villages hold Ming and Qing garrison settlements, and at Wutun the villagers speak a mixed language of their own. Farther south lie Heri Temple's mani stone wall and the grasslands of Henan, Qinghai's only Mongol autonomous county.
Listed sites in Huangnan
4 sites in Huangnan are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Heri Temple and Mani Stone Wall 和日寺石经墙 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A Nyingma temple in Heri town, Zêkog (Zeku) County, known for its stone-sutra wall of more than 100,000 engraved slabs, which the county government gives as over 200 m long. - Rongwo Monastery and Rebgong Old Town 隆务寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Rongwo (Longwu) Monastery in Tongren, called Rebgong in Tibetan, is a large Gelug monastery of the Amdo region with origins in the 14th century, and the centre of a valley of Tibetan and Tu (Monguor) villages famed for thangka painting. - Bao'an Fort Villages 保安古屯田寨堡 National heritage site · on the map
A national heritage group of four Ming and Qing military-farming (tuntian) forts on the terraces of the middle Longwu river in Tongren: Bao'an old town and the fort villages of Nianduhu, Guomaru and Wutun. - Nangla Qianhu Manor 囊拉千户院 National heritage site · on the map
The manor of the seventh Nangla (Ang'la) qianhu, a hereditary Tibetan local chief of the Jainca area, built in the late 1940s in Jianbaang village.
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