<html><head><base href="x-msg://266/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Koknor G Mail <<a href="mailto:koknor@gmail.com">koknor@gmail.com</a>></span></div><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">28 December 2011 5:50:37 AM AEDT</span><br><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Randy LaPolla <<a href="mailto:R.LaPolla@latrobe.edu.au">R.LaPolla@latrobe.edu.au</a>></span><br><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Mi nyag</b></span><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144fae"><br></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">Summer Picnic in Bang smad (Bomei) Mi nyag Tibetan Village</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">A video made by Bkra shis bzang po, a local Mi nyag villager, of village activities during the summer of 2011:</span></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><br></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://tibetanplateau.wikischolars.columbia.edu/2011+Summer+Picnic" style="text-decoration: underline; ">http://tibetanplateau.wikischolars.columbia.edu/2011+Summer+Picnic</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">Bang smad (Bomei) Village is located east of the Yar lung (Yalong) River in Bang smad Township, thirty-five kilometers southwest of Nyag rong (Xinlong) County Town. Nyag rong is one of the eighteen counties of Dkar mdzes (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Si khron (Sichuan) Province, PR China. There are thirty-six households and 223 people in Bang smad Village. All villagers are classified as Tibetan and speak Mi nyag.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; font-size: 15px; ">བང་སྨད་སྡེ་བ་ནི་ཀྲུང་ཧྭ་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་དཀར་ མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་གྱི་རྫོང་ཁག་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་ཡ་གྱལ་ཉག་རོང་རྫོང ་གི་སྤྱི་ལེ་༣༥ཡི་ལྷོ་ནུབ་མཚམས་ཀྱི་བང་སྨད་ཡུལ་ཚོའི་ཡར་ལུང་ཆུ་བོའི་ཤར་ཕྱ ོགས་སུ་ཆགས་ཡོད་ཅིང་གནས་དེ་ན་དུད་ཁྱིམ་༣༦དང་མི་གྲངས་༢༢༣ཡོད་ལ། སྡེ་མི་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བོད་སྐད་དང་མི་ཉག་སྐད་བདེ་སྤྱོད་བཏང་གི་ཡོད་པ་རེད།</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun; ">博美村位于新龙县西南方，雅砻江东岸的博美乡，距县城</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">35</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun; ">公里（新龙县是中国四川省甘孜藏族自治州十八个县的其中之一），博美村有</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">36</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun; ">户共</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">223</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun; ">人，</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun; ">全村都说木雅语。</span></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">Villagers earn cash driving cars or tractors, doing construction work, and collecting and selling caterpillar fungus, medicinal herb. Villagers cultivate barley, wheat, potatoes, turnip and peas for self-consumption. Most families also own six or seven head of livestock (cows, horses, sheep, goats, and yak-cow hybrids) that provide dairy products.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; font-size: 15px; ">སྡེ་མི་ཚོས་རླངས་འཁོར་དང་འདྲུད་འཐེན་འཁོར་ལོ། ཨར་ལས་འཛུགས་བསྐྲུན། དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ་མཚོན་པའི་སྨན་རྩྭ་དག་ཉོ་བསྡུ་སོགས་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་ཡོང་སྒོ་ འཚོལ་གྱིན་ཡོད། ད་དུང་ཁོ་ཚོས་ཁ་ཟས་ལ་གྱོ་ནས་སྲན་གསུམ་དང་ཞོག་ཁོག་ཉུང་མ་སོགས་ཀྱང་འདེབས་བཞ ིན་མཆིས། ཁྱིམ་ཚང་མང་ཤས་ཤིག་ལ་སྒོ་ཕྱུགས་ཀྱི་རེགས་དྲུག (བ་མོ། དང རྟ། ལུག། ར་མ། མཛོ་མོ) གམ་ཡང་ན་བདུན་ཡོད།</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun; ">村民的主要经济收入来源于开车或拖拉机，打工，卖虫草等。村民们种植青稞，小麦，马铃薯，元根，豌豆等粮食作物。平均每户约有六七头牲畜（牛，马，绵</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun; ">羊，山羊，犏母牛），日常生活用品自给自足。</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></span></div><br></body></html>