People perform at the opening ceremony of a Gesar-themed Culture and Tourism Festival in Maqin county, the Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China's Qinghai Province on August 4, 2026. "King Gesar" is an epic that is circulated among the Tibetan, Tu and Mongolian ethnic groups living in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and surrounding regions. Photo: VCG