Machines, not yaks, plow in Tibet, but tradition remains

Yaks and horses no longer pull the plows as they did decades ago in most villages; however, the cultivators dress up as yaks in some villages to show gratitude to the animals or commemorate their traditional role.

Some residents are still in the celebratory mood of the two-week-long New Year Festival, but they have to go back to the fields as temperatures warm.

On farms totaling 433 hectares, villagers in Bude village in Lhasa's Chushul county mainly grow wheat, barley, potato, and corn.