The di and the Qiang peoples inhabiting the northwest Gansu-Qinghai Plateau are consanguineous and divided into two nationalities.

This meditation protocol is propagated by Venerable Thanh Tu in Truc Lam Monastery in Dalat, the highland of South Vietnam, and his followers throughout the world.

In this paper, the background values of 18 mineral elements in wheat, high-land barley, broad bean and pea grown in Qinghai plateau have been analysed.