Yunshanping
Spruce-ringed alpine meadow where yak herders graze beneath slopes once climbed for wild snow tea.
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This guide to Yunshanping in Lijiang asks why Naxi families still climb waist-deep into December snow above this meadow for something that looks like broken white twigs on bare rock. You'll hear about wild snow tea, a lichen that grows only near the snow line on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and cannot be farmed, and about the yak herders who work the gentler pastures at Yunshanping itself, moving their animals up from the valley each summer. Look at the spruce ringing the meadow, a staging ground for herds heading up and pickers climbing higher still.
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