Nanjing holds Tibet's yak culture exhibition

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An exhibition featuring yak culture opened Wednesday in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, highlighting the lifestyle of the Tibetan people and history of yaks.

Exhibits include more than 320 yak-related items, such as yak fossils dating back 45,000 years, yak specimens, tents, daily necessities of Tibetans, and Tibetan Buddhist scroll paintings related to yaks.

Yak skulls are on display at a yak culture exhibition in the Capital Museum, Beijing, January 24, 2017. /VCG Photo

Weighing 5.6 tonnes, the exhibits have traveled around 4,000 km to Nanjing from the Tibet yak museum in Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.

"Where there are Tibetan people, there are Tibetan yaks," said Wu Yuchu, curator of the Tibet yak museum, which was set up in 2014 and is home to more than 2,500 yak-related exhibits.

A file photo taken on May 11, 2004 shows that a farmer uses yaks to plow the ground. The red ribbons on the yaks' heads are prayers for a good harvest. /VCG Photo

"The yak museum shares the nomadic feature of Tibetan people. We have a down season in winter, so the exhibits can travel to other cities," Wu said.

The exhibition is free to the public and will close on February 25.

Previously, the yak exhibition was held in Beijing and Guangzhou.

(Top Photo: A yak skull on display during a yak culture exhibition in the Capital Museum, Beijing, January 24, 2017. /VCG Photo)

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency