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Option 1 : more than a thousand years old
Concept:
About the Changpa tribe:
- Changpa is a nomadic tribe found in Ladakh.
- The Changpa tribe has only about 5000 people.
- They make the famous pashmina shawl through these goats.
- The Changpa speak Changskhat, a dialect of Tibetan, and practice Tibetan Buddhism.
- They stay high up on these mountains in very difficult conditions.
- The Changpas carry everything that they own on their horses and yaks.
- Their goats and sheep are most important to them.
- Through these goats and sheep, they obtain meat to eat, wool to wear, and skin for tents.
- The Changpa graze their goats in higher and colder places so that the goats have more and softer hair (fur).
- They live in a big cone-shaped tent called Rebo.
- Near the Rebo, they have a place to keep sheep and goats called Lekha.
- The walls of a lekha are made of stones.
- In the language of the Changpa ‘changthang’ means - a place where very few people live.
Explanation:
- The part of our country where the big cone-shaped tents are used for a living is known as ‘Rebo’ and the place in which animals are kept is called ‘Lekha’ in Leh and Ladakh.
- Hence the design of these tents is more than a thousand years
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