The Tibetan New Year

The Tibetan New Year of 202 1 falls on February 12, which coincides with the Spring Festival. Tibetan New Year is the most solemn traditional festival for Tibetans and one of GJ's intangible cultural heritages. Tibetan New Year and Spring Festival are roughly the same, calculated according to the Tibetan calendar. It starts on 1 month 1 day and ends on 1 month 15. In Tibet, a place where the whole people believe in Buddhism, the Tibetan New Year will be filled with a strong religious atmosphere throughout the region, which is a festival of celebration and prayer.

According to astronomical calendar experts, the determination of Tibetan New Year is closely related to the use of Tibetan calendar, and the calculation of Tibetan calendar is closely related to the calculation of Tibetan astronomical calendar. Legend has it that a textile mother who lived in Yongbulakang observed the changes of the sun, the moon and the stars in her daily work for more than 0/00 years BC, summed up the changing rules of the day, the month and the week, and finally formed the "Textile Mother's Monthly Calculation".

Since then, the phenological calendar has been produced on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and later, people have introduced the constitutional calendar and the time-wheel calendar. With the passage of time, the operation method of five elements and the method of occupying sound were introduced, thus forming a systematic astronomical calendar. Later generations concluded that the Tibetan calendar absorbed many kinds of calendar essences on the basis of the original phenological calendar in Tibet and formed a unique and scientific calendar system.

The fun of Tibetan New Year, the custom of New Year, and the cleaning before New Year.

Like the Han nationality, before the Tibetan New Year, Tibetan compatriots should clean up their homes and change curtains and incense cloth. The most important cleaning for Tibetan families in a year is the period before the Tibetan New Year, which is also translated as rustic and refers to auspicious cleaning before the Tibetan New Year.

According to the Tibetan calendar, there is no regulation on the time of spitting Kazakhstan every year, as long as it is an auspicious day years ago. Every year at the end of 65438+February in the Tibetan calendar, every household will choose an auspicious day to start the annual vomit, clean up the dust, stains and garbage accumulated in the corner of the house for a year, and greet the arrival of Rosa (Tibetan transliteration, meaning New Year) neatly.

Prepare new year's goods

In order to celebrate the New Year, the people of Lhasa bought a large number of various new year's goods. With the improvement of material conditions, today's new year's goods are not only richer in variety, more exquisite in style, but also greatly improved in quality.

Kasai River (a river in Africa)

Kasai is a kind of fried pasta, a snack for Tibetan people to entertain guests, and one of the necessary new year's goods in Tibetan calendar. Every year approaching the Tibetan New Year, Lhasa's opening business will become more and more prosperous.

Chigutu

Ancient in the ancient process means nine (meaning twenty-nine) in Tibetan, and sudden is sudden (noodle soup or porridge). According to folklore experts, eating ancient tu on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month in Tibetan calendar originated from the folk custom of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits, and the ceremony was grand, which gradually added a lot of interesting contents in the spread of this custom.

Hanging ribbon

Tibetan calendar1February 30th, that is, the New Year's Eve of Tibetan calendar. On this day, every Tibetan household will hang up prayer flags, change incense cloth and mount a horse for good luck in the coming year.

Gongqima

During the Tibetan New Year, every Tibetan in every household will present Chema. Qiema is an auspicious thing for Tibetans, and offering sacrifices to Qiema is also a national custom formed by Tibetan people in the long-term historical development. Chema was put in a special bowl. Bowls are rectangular empty boxes made of wooden boards, separated by wooden boards in the middle. The moon and stars are engraved on the bowl board.