Whitewashing cultural week starts in Xiangcheng, China’s Sichuan
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An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 20, 2025 shows the Zhongde Village of Qingde Town, Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province. A whitewashing cultural week started here on Saturday. Xiangcheng’s whitewashed Tibetan houses preserve the core architectural style of the Kamba region. Each year, locals whitewash the exterior walls in a tradition known as the whitewashing ritual. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
People enjoy Guozhuang dance, a traditional Tibetan square dance, during the opening ceremony of a whitewashing cultural week in Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Sept. 20, 2025. A whitewashing cultural week started here on Saturday. Xiangcheng’s whitewashed Tibetan houses preserve the core architectural style of the Kamba region. Each year, locals whitewash the exterior walls in a tradition known as the whitewashing ritual. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 20, 2025 shows the Zhongde Village of Qingde Town, Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province. A whitewashing cultural week started here on Saturday. Xiangcheng’s whitewashed Tibetan houses preserve the core architectural style of the Kamba region. Each year, locals whitewash the exterior walls in a tradition known as the whitewashing ritual. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
A household performs the whitewashing ritual for their residence in Zhongde Village of Qingde Town, Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Sept. 20, 2025. A whitewashing cultural week started here on Saturday. Xiangcheng’s whitewashed Tibetan houses preserve the core architectural style of the Kamba region. Each year, locals whitewash the exterior walls in a tradition known as the whitewashing ritual. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
People enjoy Guozhuang dance, a traditional Tibetan square dance, during the opening ceremony of a whitewashing cultural week in Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Sept. 20, 2025. A whitewashing cultural week started here on Saturday. Xiangcheng’s whitewashed Tibetan houses preserve the core architectural style of the Kamba region. Each year, locals whitewash the exterior walls in a tradition known as the whitewashing ritual. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 20, 2025, shows people enjoying Guozhuang dance, a traditional Tibetan square dance, during the opening ceremony of a whitewashing cultural week in Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province. A whitewashing cultural week started here on Saturday. Xiangcheng’s whitewashed Tibetan houses preserve the core architectural style of the Kamba region. Each year, locals whitewash the exterior walls in a tradition known as the whitewashing ritual. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
A household performs the whitewashing ritual for their residence in Zhongde Village of Qingde Town, Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Sept. 20, 2025. A whitewashing cultural week started here on Saturday. Xiangcheng’s whitewashed Tibetan houses preserve the core architectural style of the Kamba region. Each year, locals whitewash the exterior walls in a tradition known as the whitewashing ritual.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
