Red coral and amber hair decorations and a traditional friendly greeting - sticking your tongue out.
The Chinese princess Wencheng (Wénchéng Gōngzhǔ 文成公主, Tib. Mung-chang Kungco) passed through Songpan during the Tang Dynasty (ca year 640 or 641) when she was travelling to Lhasa to wed the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in a peace agreement between the two nations. She was a niece of Emperor Taizong and died in 680. I must admit I am not sure who is the man beside her, surely not Songtsen Gampo as Wencheng was transported to Lhasa by a high official and was rumored to actually be pregnant with his child by the time she arrived in Lhasa almost a year later.
Comment from Ingrid: Paddy tells me that this is indeed Wencheng AND Songtsen Gampo, in a mythic creation by the government to make people believe that SG actually came all the way to Songpan to meet her there. Not true...
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