Photo taken on Sept. 15, 2014 shows actors perform at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Tsangyang Gyatso Ballad Cultural Tourism Festival, in Legpo of Tsona County, Lhoka Prefecture of Tibet.[Photo/Xinhua] 

The 1st Tsangyang Gyatso Ballad Cultural Tourism Festival was held in 2012.

The most recent one was the 2014 Tsangyang Gyatso Ballad Cultural Tourism Festival, which was held in Legpo of Tsona County, Lhoka Prefecture of Tibet, Sept. 15, 2014.

The festival, themed as "Tracing the origin of Tibet in Lhoka and love for Legpo", featured grand local gathering, art performances, tourism promotion, business negotiation and trade fair. During the festival, performances of popular songs and intangible cultural heritage items such as Monpa Akyi Lhamo, a folk dance, Dringking song of Sarma, as well as love poem recitation contest were presented.

Tsona County, known for "magical valley and poetic countryside, beautiful township of Monpa flavor and a holy land of love", has been widely hailed for offering tourists the simplest folk customs and purest ecological environment.

An investment of 120 mln yuan was put on uplifting the tourism infrastructure of Tsona County, to carry forward the Monpa ethnic culture and promote the Tsangyang Gyatso tourism brand.