Shangrilá: Chinese travels round the Tibetan borders.

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Pag 231: "I cross the ground cultivated up to coming to a place full of religious signs. Simple compositions of three or four placed round stones one on other one, like forming minuscule pagodas. From the hill there is seen an enormous extension of field, a smooth and fertile field where hundreds of persons atarean in the proper works of the station. Some of them are driving to the oxen that plow the ground, sow others, or remove weeds, or gather his vegetables, or fan the straw. Since in these Brueguel pictures, in those of only one glance we can know all the possibilities that an activity presents, before my eyes there appears a finished catalog of the agricultural activities in the autumn of the Moso.
From the top of this small hill the life appears with a mysterious exuberance. It is undoubted that the life of our ancestors, tied, how is life on having passed harmonious of the cycles of the nature, was organized in cycles that were reflecting saying to occur. Cycles that went away ritualizando leaving traces that still differ in our customs. The biggest merit that assumes to the Chinese mythical emperors was not to expel the enemy, but the establishment of the calendar. Possibly the practical character of these rituals preceded his sacred character. Since in a critical moment for the survival of the community, like the autumn harvest, the minimal effort cannot devote itself to any other activity. To compensate, once the harvest is gathered and stored, the biggest celebrations come."

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