What are the characteristics of Barkhor Street in Lhasa?

The characteristics of Barkhor Street in Lhasa are:

Barkhor Street retains the original features of the ancient city of Lhasa.

Streets are paved with hand-polished stones.

There is an old Tibetan building next to it.

There is a huge incense burner in the middle of the street, filled with fireworks day and night.

There are many shops on both sides of the street, including 120 handicraft shops and more than 200 stalls, 1300 businessmen and more than 8,000 kinds of commodities, including bronze Buddha, prayer wheel, butter lamp, prayer flags, scriptures, beads, tributes, pine and cypress branches and other religious articles. Card mats, aprons, leather, saddles, snuff bottles, fire hooks, Tibetan quilts, Tibetan shoes, Tibetan knives, Tibetan hats, ghee, ghee barrels, wooden bowls, highland barley wine, sweet tea, milk residue, air-dried meat and other daily necessities, handicrafts such as Thangka paintings, handkerchiefs and Tibetan carpets, as well as antiques and Tibetan. In addition, there are commodities from India, Nepal, Myanmar, Kashmir and other places. The main shops of Tibetan Dao are Xiamao Gabu, Maji Ami Tavern, Snowland Thangka Handicraft Shop, Bondachang and so on. There are many historical sites in the street, including Shrimp and Rice Garden, Quiet Garden, Side Temple Site, Cangjie Temple, Small Mosque, 12 Lacan, Songzan Gambu Palace, Songqu Hot Site of Zong Kaba Buddhist Debate Site, founder of Tibetan Buddhism, Tunmi, etc. Sambuza's mansion was once stationed in the yamen of 84 ministers stationed in Tibet, the former Lhasa public security organ and the Langzixia prison. In addition, it has become an important folk cultural landscape for believers to turn around Jokhang Temple clockwise in the morning and evening.