What festivals do Tibetans have?

The stone-turning meeting is a traditional Tibetan festival, also known as the Wooden Buddha Festival and the worship of mountain gods. Popular in Ganzi and Aba Tibetan areas. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Shui Ye, Kowloon bathes it, so it is also called Mufo Festival. On this day every year, people from far and near in Ganzi Tibetan areas wear national costumes and gather on Happy Valley Mountain and Zheduo River.

Flower picking festival

Flower-picking Festival is a traditional festival for Tibetans in Apollo, Nanping County. It is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year for two days.

Huangzang calendar new year's day

Tibetans call the New Year "Lotha". In the ancient Tibetan calendar, the maturity or harvest of wheat was the beginning of a year, especially in summer and autumn. According to records, before 100 BC, Tibetans had their own calendars, and the days, months and years were calculated according to the moon's profit and loss. In the 7th century A.D., two princesses, Wencheng and Jincheng, entered Tibet to marry and form an alliance, bringing the calendar of the mainland. Since then, the Tibetan ancient calendar has been combined with the Han calendar and Indian calendar, forming a unique five-element calendar in heavenly stems and earthly branches in the Yuan Dynasty. Around the 1 3rd century, the Sakya Dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty designated the 1 month1day of the Tibetan calendar as the beginning of the New Year, which has been used ever since.

Tibetan farmhouse celebrate the New Year.

Because of the Tibetan calendar 1 month, farmers in Houzang (the main grain-producing area in Tibet, referring to Xigaze area) will start spring ploughing, and Tibetan ancestors in Houzang area have long designated the annual Tibetan calendar of 65438+February 1 as the Tibetan New Year.

Generally speaking, the Tibetan custom of celebrating the Year of the Peasant is only in Shigatse, Tibet, including Nimu County in Lhasa, Tibet, and most parts of Tibet celebrate the New Year on the Tibetan calendar 1 day every year.

Sagadawa Festival

April 15 is the Sagadawa Festival for Tibetans. There are two opinions about it: one is to commemorate the day when Sakyamuni became a monk; One is to commemorate the day when Princess Wencheng arrived in Lhasa. On this day, religious commemorative activities will be held all over Tibet. Some Tibetans in Yunnan are going to worship in the desert mountain in Weixi county, and there is a ceremony of "turning to Jiela" (going around the mountain).

Women's festival

Tibetans in Wenxian County, Gansu Province celebrate their "Daughter's Day" every year on the fourth and fifth day of the fifth lunar month. During the festival, girls, accompanied by their brothers, put on gorgeous clothes, bring delicious food, go up the mountain to pick tea and sing, and toast each other with the young man to wish good luck.

Fruit Festival

"Guowang Festival" (meaning going to the fields) is one of the traditional Tibetan festivals in Tibet. This festival lasts for one to three days. Every July, when the grain harvest is in sight, Tibetans will walk around the fields with scrolls and wish the harvest. At the same time, horse racing, archery, cultural performances and other activities are held.

Shoton/Sho Dun festival

Xuedun Festival is a traditional Tibetan festival, which originated in the middle of 1 1 century. The Tibetan calendar is held on July 1st every year for four or five days. Xuedun Festival is transliterated in Tibetan, meaning "yogurt feast", so Xuedun Festival is interpreted as a festival for drinking yogurt. Later, it gradually evolved into the Tibetan Opera Festival, also known as the Tibetan Opera Festival.

Bailai Ri Zhu Jie

The Tibetan calendar 10 June 15 is an annual traditional Tibetan festival-Bai Lai Ri Zhui, that is, "auspicious Mother's Day".

About the origin of this festival, there is a vivid legend among Tibetans: Masum, the patron saint of Jokhang Temple, has three daughters, the youngest daughter Balasham, the second daughter Dongzan Jim and the eldest daughter Balazam. Because they were disobedient, the mother put a curse on her, wishing that her eldest daughter would never have a husband, and even if she did, she would only see her once a year. The spell has come true. Barazza's lover lives in Chifu Zongzan on the south bank of Lhasa River, and can only meet once a year in Tibetan calendar 10+05.