Barkhor Street is the most prosperous commercial street in Lhasa built around the Jokhang Temple. The street is centered on the Jokhang Temple, connected to the Tibetan Hospital Building in the west, Yanhe East Road in the south, Xingfu East Road in the north, and Lhasa Hospital Helinkuo East Road in the east. Everyone who comes to Lhasa knows about Bajiao Street. But when it comes to "Bakuo Street", far fewer people know about it. In fact, Barkhor Street is the correct name of Bajiao Street.

Barkhor Street is also called Bajiao Street. It is said that because Sichuan people account for a large proportion in Lhasa and the pronunciations of "Kuo" and "Jiao" are similar in Sichuan dialect, Barkhor Street is mistakenly pronounced as "Bajiao Street". . Later, people misunderstood the meaning of the name and even thought that Bajiao Street was because the ring street had eight corners.

Barkhor Street is a polygonal street ring composed of Barkhor East Street, Barkhor West Street, Barkhor South Street and Barkhor North Street. It has a circumference of more than 1,000 meters. There are many branch roads in the street and there are 35 streets and alleys.

The Bajiao Street prayer path is the most important prayer path in the hearts of the Tibetan people. It means "middle circle" in Tibetan, which is relative to the "Lin Kuo" and the "Nang Kuo" in the Jokhang Temple. When the specific time for praying in the evening comes, people who don't know each other - there are those who come from the pastoral areas in northern Tibet and wear white robes, there are those who come from the Kham Mountain territory, and there are those who live in the Bajiao neighborhood and wear bright clothes... In short, All kinds of believers seemed to have suddenly received a silent order. After a sudden commotion, they began to walk along the circular road strictly in a clockwise direction.

Barkhor Street retains the original style of the ancient city of Lhasa. The streets are paved with hand-polished stones, and old Tibetan houses are preserved next to them. There is a giant incense burner in the middle of the street, filled with fireworks day and night. There are many shops on both sides of the street. There are more than 120 handicraft shops and more than 200 sales stalls. There are more than 1,300 business people and more than 8,000 kinds of products, including bronze Buddhas, prayer wheels, butter lamps, prayer flags, scriptures, Rosary beads, tribute incense, pine and cypress branches and other religious items, card mats, Pulu, aprons, leather bags, horse gear, snuff bottles, fire sickles, Tibetan quilts, Tibetan shoes, Tibetan knives, Tibetan hats, butter, butter barrels, wooden bowls, highland barley Daily necessities such as wine, sweet tea, milk residue, and dried meat, handicrafts such as thangka paintings, handkerchiefs, and Tibetan blankets, as well as antiques, local specialties from various parts of Tibet, and other products with ethnic characteristics. In addition, there are products from India, Nepal, Myanmar, Kashmir and other places.

The main shops include Xia Mao Gabu, Maggie Ami Tavern, Snowland Thangka Handicraft Shop, Bangda Chang, etc.; there are many places of interest and historical sites remaining in the street, including Xia Mi Yuan, Sutra Printing Yuan, the ruins of Xide Temple, and Canggun Nuns. There are nunneries, small mosques and other temples and 12 Lacans. There are Songtsen Gampo's palace in Qujie Phuzhang, the ruins of Songqure, the Buddhist debate venue of Tsongkhapa, the founder of Yellow Sect, and the residence of Tunmi Sambuza, the founder of Tibetan language. , the Yamen of the Minister of Residence in Tibet, which has served 84 ministers in Tibet, the former Lhasa City Public Security Agency and Prison Langzixia, etc. In addition, believers circumambulate the Jokhang Temple in a clockwise direction in the morning and evening, which has become an important folk cultural landscape.