(70 years of Tibet’s peaceful liberation) Lhasa’s memories and longings of “Generation Z” in Tibet
China News Agency Lhasa, August 5
China News Agency reporter Zhao Yan
Unlike the old people's memories of the sufferings before Tibet's peaceful liberation, as the "Generation Z", the memories of Lhasa since Dan Zhenwanga grew up are colorful.
In his words, "Lhasa is an open and tolerant city."
"The compound where I lived when I was young, in the afternoon, as the smoke rises, the neighbor's dinner can't be hidden. The taste can be carried away by the wind... It is a kind of Hui family. The fragrant mutton, the wok of Sichuanese thick oil red sauce and the frankincense of the Tibetan family. No one has the upper hand, no one is left behind. It is intertwined in the air, and is connected to each other like the food culture behind it. "Dan Zhenwanga said, such a scene is like "Lhasa is a colorful home" written by the writer Yang Zhen, where residents of different religions and cultural backgrounds live in harmony with each other.
Dan Zhenwanga was born in 1999 in his father's hometown-a small mountain village in Shaanxi.
At that time, his father and his mother from Shigatse worked hard together in Lhasa, and then formed a family.
"At that time, in a community called Xue Chongsa at the foot of the Potala Palace, we had our first home in Lhasa." It was a rented house. As long as Wang Zhenwang’s memory of Xue Chongsa’s life is fulfilling and good.
The residents upstairs are Nepalese. They run a hairdressing shop in the area. The shop is filled with Bollywood star posters.
"The women of Xue Chongsa like to go to the shop on weekends to dye their hair with Henna, and then sit on the flower beds on the street corners with their heads wrapped in plastic bags." Recalling his childhood life, Dan Zhenwang raised his mouth. "I also like to run from Lalu Bridge to Zongjiao Lukang Park with my Hui classmates next door, watching the people dancing inside, occasionally twisting with the dance steps, and then running home sweating profusely."
Although the memories of childhood are far away, the colorful city of Lhasa still longs for Dan Zhenwang.
In 2021, after graduating from Zhejiang University with a major in Chinese Language and Literature, he chose to return to Lhasa to become an internship teaching assistant in Chinese.
Returning to his hometown, Dan Zhenwang would still return to the small courtyard where he lived when he was a child in his free time, and feel the changes and changes with his heart.
The tenants have changed batch after batch, but the appearance of the house remains the same, but the interior furnishings have been brand new, including heaters, water heaters, LCD TVs...everything.
Of course, the Buddhist altar is still there.
When the Buddha lamp lights up, the warm and buttery smell from the house is still familiar.
As an intern teacher of an educational institution, Dan Zhenwanga introduced to reporters that Tibetan education has incorporated traditional culture. In order to meet the diverse needs of students and parents, educational institutions have also developed diversified.
He took the current educational institution as an example. The institution has folklore classes where you can learn traditional cultural courses such as Tibetan calligraphy and Tibetan opera. Many elementary school-age children can not only learn modern cultural knowledge, but also receive traditional cultural education.
At the same time, during different holidays every year, the school will organize children to go to Shanghai, Hainan and other places to study and broaden their horizons.
Although he is already the "Generation Z", Dan Zhenwanga still sighs, "Compared with the traditional education when we were young, this is a brand new educational development model."
The young Dan Zhenwanga has a wide range of information and has a broad vision and insight.
He said that the status quo of Lhasa's development is still being ignored by some foreign media.
"It's not that they can't see it, but that we are not standing high enough."
Dan Zhenwanga said that he is still young and what he can do is to learn from the many excellent teachers and friends around him, and continue to enrich himself.
"I hope that one day, I have the ability to do something for some people, to contribute to the development and changes here, and I want to do something for the world to see the beauty of Lhasa." (End)