When is the Tibetan New Year?

Tibetan New Year is the Tibetan calendar 1 month 1 day and the Gregorian calendar is February 2, 20231.

The Tibetan New Year is the most solemn festival of the Tibetan people in a year, starting from the Tibetan calendar 1 month 1 day and lasting 15 days. Entering the Tibetan calendar1February, people began to make a series of traditional and complicated preparations for the New Year. Cultivate highland barley seedlings, fry cards, brew highland barley wine, clean up, place offerings, draw auspicious symbols, etc. Only in this way can we be happy and auspicious in the new year and live a long life.

The Tibetan New Year is the most solemn and warm traditional festival for Tibetans. Because the whole people believe in Buddhism, the festival activities are filled with a strong religious atmosphere, and it is a national festival to entertain the gods and the people, celebrate and pray.

Characteristics of Tibetan calendar:

Tibetan calendar is a calendar created by Tibetan people, with a history of 1000 years. Tibetan calendar is a combination of yin and yang, which divides a year into four seasons, with winter, spring, summer and autumn as the order. 12 starts in silver moon and is a leap month, which is used to adjust the relationship between months and seasons and set the leap time, which is different from the lunar calendar.

The Tibetan calendar has three elements, including the phenological calendar inherent in Tibetan culture, the time calendar imported from India and the constitutional calendar imported from the mainland. On the basis of the creation of Tibetan people, they constantly absorb and learn from astronomical knowledge in mainland India and other regions, and gradually develop into a new scale and system, and form their own characteristics.