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Tibetan New Year is a traditional festival for Tibetan people. On may 23rd, 201/year, the Tibetan calendar year was approved by the State Council and included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

The significance and form of this festival are similar to those of the Lunar New Year. There will be cleaning, mulberry stew and so on before the year. Eating, drinking, and visiting relatives and friends are the themes. In this year, I met the Tibetan New Year and the Spring Festival on the same day, and the two festivals are the same. Interested friends may wish to go to Lhasa to see the lively atmosphere of the Tibetan New Year.

2. Sagadawa Festival

Sagadawa Festival, also known as Buddha's auspicious day, is related to three important events in Buddha's life, namely birth, consciousness and nirvana. This is an auspicious day, and there are three celebration periods. This is an extraordinary and sacred day for Buddhist believers.

It is said that Sagadawa Festival will last for a whole month. During this period, Tibetans who believe in Tibetan Buddhism will commemorate the Buddha Sakyamuni in their minds by turning over scriptures, burning incense, eating fast food and releasing them.

It is a good thing to set free on a religious auspicious day. So in the Lhasa River, people gathered a spectacular release team. Nowadays, after a long period of development, Sagadawa Festival has gradually evolved into a mass festival for Tibetan people to visit the park in spring and summer and wish a bumper harvest in agriculture and animal husbandry.

3. Snowden Festival

Every year on June 30th in the Tibetan calendar, thousands of people pour into monasteries, offering yogurt to the Fifth Dalai Lama and monks in drepung monastery, praying for a long life, a bumper harvest and the blessing of not going to hell after death. Nearby Tibetan Opera Troupe and Wild Yak Dance Troupe also came to perform to express their condolences. Since then, it has become a more abundant fixed festival, known as the "Snow Festival".

When the festival comes, colorful tent cities will appear in Norbulingka and the surrounding Woods overnight, and several lively and prosperous festival streets will be formed. Almost the whole city of Lhasa has moved into this green world, and all the people live in the wild in song and dance. Deep and warm singing, spread in the shadows with plateau-specific musical instruments. This is the most energetic day for Lhasa people.

4. Fruit Festival

Guowang Festival is a festival for Tibetan farmers to celebrate the harvest, which is popular in Lhasa, Shigatse and Shannan in Xizang Autonomous Region. The time is between July and August in the Tibetan calendar every year, and the specific date changes with the change of agricultural time in various places. Generally, it is held two or three days after barley yellow ripening and before sickle harvesting.

It is said that "Guo Wang Festival" has a history of 1500 years. On the first morning of the festival, when the sun was shining all over the golden wheat fields, farmers walked around the fields with ears of wheat in their hands. At the front is an honor guard composed of lamas and old peasants, holding high the Buddha statue, holding scriptures and blowing the Buddha's name, thanking God for bringing people a good year.

5. Bath Festival

Bathing Festival is a unique festival of Tibetan people, which has a history of at least 700 to 800 years in Tibet. During these seven days, bathing in the river has become a traditional custom of the Tibetan people, from dolls to the elderly. This is true from cities to rural areas, from pastoral areas to agricultural areas.

Buddhism believes that the water in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has eight advantages, namely, sweet, cool, soft, light, clear and tasteless. Seven drinks don't hurt the throat, and eight drinks don't hurt the abdomen. Therefore, July is called the best time to take a bath.