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What are the interesting places in Potala Palace? The origin of the White House Wall in Potala Palac

If you visit Tibet, you will surely come to Lhasa. How can you miss the Potala Palace standing on the top of mabri mountain (red mountain)? So, do you know any interesting places in Potala Palace?

About the history and culture of the Potala Palace, we must have heard more or less. It was built by Songzan Ganbu of Tubo Dynasty to marry Princess Chizun (Nepal) and Princess Wencheng (Datang). It is a perfect ancient Tibetan Architecture and a grand building integrating palaces, castles and temples.

If you take a closer look at its walls, you'll find that it's really amazing.

When we go to Lhasa, Tibet, standing at Yaowang mountain or Potala Palace Square, we can clearly see that the Potala Palace is composed of two parts: the White House and the Red Palace. The White House is like a pedestal, holding up the Red Palace on the upper floor. And when you really approach the White House and the Red Palace and look at the walls of the palace closely, you will find that the White House is not only white, and the Red Palace is not simply red.

To be precise, the walls of the Potala Palace are not the walls that we have made for them.

This wall is not that wall. If you look closely at the white house wall, you will find that the wall is obviously uneven, and there are obvious traces of water erosion. It's just like when we pour sticky paint directly on the wall, and the paint drips along the wall without painting permission. As a matter of fact, even ordinary people's houses can be used as a world cultural heritage, and even the white house walls of the Potala Palace, which used to be an administrative Palace during the period of the integration of land, politics and economy, why are the walls of the White House of the Potala Palace so lax?

The answer is that it is too particular!

Although the walls of Potala Palace seem rough, we should know that the white paint on the walls of Potala Palace is beyond the ordinary people's affordability. Because, this is serious yak milk!

You heard me right! Such a large-scale white house wall, all are washed and colored with yak milk, and it is renovated every year, washed once a year!

In Tibetan areas, the influence of Tibetan Buddhism is very huge, almost all the people believe in religion. Therefore, in the eyes of all Tibetans, the Potala Palace is undoubtedly an extremely sacred existence. Therefore, every year, a large number of Tibetans bring yak milk, lime, honey, sugar and other items to the Potala Palace, and then mix these items into coatings in proportion. Such coating is not only white, but also has a high viscosity, and corrosion resistance, not easy to fall off.

After mixing the paint, the Tibetans will stand on the wall edge of the Potala Palace and pour down bit by bit. It is because of such dumping and painting the exterior walls of the White House year after year that the exterior walls of the White House show the traces of water erosion. Moreover, year after year, the Potala Palace is still as brand-new as it has been for thousands of years. Even when it's sunny, the walls of the White House can reflect so much that you have to wear sunglasses. Thus, potala palace is so sacred!

In addition to the White House, the red walls are not unusual. Although the exterior walls of the palace seem to be covered with red light along the exterior walls of the palace, they are all covered with red branches.

Strange willow is a kind of plant in Tibetan area, commonly known as Guanyin willow. It has the properties of high temperature resistance, cold resistance, dry resistance, humidity resistance, corrosion resistance and so on. In Tibetan areas, many Tibetans will use the strange willow branches to rebuild, so as to reduce the weight of local walls and beautify the vision of the walls.

The wall built with strange willow branches is called "white horse grass wall", which can also be called "catch arrow wall". Because the wall built in this way is not afraid even if it is attacked by flying arrow, the flying arrow will surely be caught by the white horse grass wall. Therefore, the use of white horse grass wall in Potala Palace also has the function of defense.