When traveling in Tibet, the Potala Palace is almost a must-see attraction. This complex of palaces, castles and temples was built in the Tang Dynasty, which is a world cultural heritage and very spectacular. If you come to Lhasa and want to take a beautiful picture of Potala Palace, you'd better come to Wang Yao on the west side of Potala Palace in the early morning. There is an observation deck halfway up the mountain in Wang Yao, which is the best place to shoot the Potala Palace.

Although the Potala Palace is open to tourists most of the time, there is one place where tourists are absolutely not allowed to visit. This is the highest place in Potala Palace-Jinding. What is the mysterious place in this place that tourists are not allowed to visit?

First of all, the Potala Palace now retains seven golden domes, which are the crowning touch of the Potala Palace. It has experienced thousands of years of baptism and the construction and repair of successive dynasties. There are two main reasons why tourists are forbidden to visit.

The first is that these jinding are very fragile. Is the protective material used in the Jinding of Potala Palace local to Tibet? Agatu? The main component of this soil is calcium carbonate, which has a good protective effect, but the problem is that it is relatively waterproof. In Tibetan ancient buildings, house deformation is a long-standing problem. One of the main reasons is that Aga soil used in the roof is not resistant to rain erosion, and cracks will appear after a long time, leading to water leakage in the house. You have to use a new one every time it leaks? Agatu? Repair completed. This problem also exists in the Jinding of Potala Palace. In order to strengthen protection, it is necessary to prohibit tourists from visiting.

Second, the surface of the golden dome of Potala Palace is really a thick layer of gold! It is said that when the business was not good decades ago, some people really took risks and went to Jinding to scrape gold. Many people fell and died. Therefore, in order to protect Jinding, we have now carried out closed management to avoid the previous adverse events. In fact, the golden dome of Potala Palace is of great historical and artistic value. Can a little gold replace it? I don't know how many people gave their lives to build the Potala Palace.

So when we visited the Potala Palace, we saw gold and precious stones everywhere, which are actually the most worthless things here. The Potala Palace has preserved precious cultural relics accumulated for thousands of years, including nearly 1000 pagodas and countless statues. Coming to the Potala Palace is like walking into an ocean of gold and jewels, everywhere. The Lingta Hall alone consumes more than 3,000 kilograms of gold, 654.38+2,000 yuan of silver, and uses nearly 20,000 kinds of jewelry.