According to legend, an enlightened rakshashi demoness and the monkey fell in love and bore six monkey people. Soon after, a sutra landed at Yumbu Lhakang and the snowy plateau was filled with billowing incense smoke, the hum of chants and the whir of prayer wheels. The Tibetans believe they are the descendants of the rakshashi and the monkey, and thus began the pilgrimage in the light of the Buddha the Tibetans would carry out generation after generation.

The six-string lute is the quintessential traditional Tibetan folk instrument. The majority of genres that combine instrumental score, song and dance-from nangma palace orchestra music to folk genres-are accompanied by the six-string lute.

The six-string lute is called the "dranyen" in Tibetan. It is said that in ancient times Tibet was a vast sea with the waves rising and falling in rhythm, the sound of which carried out to the distance where it was heard by the sky god, who was moved by what he heard. One day a heavenly maiden emerged from the ocean plucking a dranyen as she sang and danced. The dranyen has been the favorite musical instrument of the Tibetan people ever since.

Tibetan lutes come in various sizes and there are also eight-string, twelve-string, twenty-string dranyen, with the six string dranyen being the most popular and widely played. The themes explored in dranyen music are similar from one region to the next, while performance style shows a higher degree of variation.

The long-sleeve dance is one of the most well-known folk traditions of Tibet. The most representative forms of the genre are the Batang Fiddle Dance and the Qinghai Locust Tree Dance.

For the Tibetans, it is very righteous to be able to take part in renovating the Potala Palace.Many people will come from all over Tibet to take part in this effort free of charge.They alleviate the fatigue of their labors through songs and the rhythm of strikes in the dirt, comforting themselves and creating this mystical musical form known as the song of mortar.

The yak has ecarned the reputation of "vehicle of the plateau", and is an indispensable partner to Tibetans in life and work. After generations of eating yak meat and yak butter, drinking yak milk, burning yak manure and living in yak wool tents, Tibetans have come to have a special appreciation for the yak. The yak is also a totem for the Tibetan people, a protector spirit.

The yak dance, a traditional folk dance loved by the people, is called "yachang" in Tibetan and is similar to the Chinese lion dance. In the Tibetan areas of Garze, Shiqu, Seda and Kangding, the yak dance is performed at important religious festivals and other events to bring good fortune.

The Tibetans have a saying that even death on the path of pilgrimage is a blessing, because one's soul has already attained conversion, a beautiful cycle of rebirth...

Suddenly the horizon fills with light, and the serene Buddha statue rises. Prayer flags flutter in the wind and the stage is filled with the brilliant light of butter lamps.

At the end, a small girl stands on the horizon downstage, and the lamb follows her. All that remains in the empty stage is her shadow-the reborn old mother... Generation after generation, the wheel of life turns through the depths of the ages.