When is the Tibetan New Year?

Before the Tang Dynasty, Tibetans celebrated the New Year with the ripening of wheat. Later, due to the entry of Princess Wencheng, a female imperial clan in the Tang Dynasty, Tang and Fan began to have close contacts. With the exchange of Central Plains culture and plateau culture, many Central Plains cultures were gradually introduced into Tibet, including calendars. Later, the habit of wheat ripening in Tibetan areas was changed to celebrate the New Year like the Han people (the New Year is a solar term in the cycle of the relationship between Japan and the earth, not "year"), until today.

Holiday customs:

Tibetan New Year is a traditional Tibetan festival. Every year, the Tibetan calendar begins on the first day of the first month, ranging from three to five days. /kloc-in early February, people began to prepare new year's goods, and every household soaked highland barley seeds in pots to cultivate young crops. /kloc-in mid-October/February, every household fried mutton offal (Kasai) with ghee and white flour one after another. There are many kinds of chicken gizzards, such as ear-shaped, long as Xia Na, round and blue. Near the end of the year, every household should prepare a cuboid bamboo Ma Qi grain bucket, which contains food mixed with ghee, such as Ciba, fried wheat, ginseng fruit, etc., and it is painted with highland barley ears, cockscomb flowers and colorful flower plates made of ghee. Prepare a sheep head in the shape of colored ghee. All this has a festive harvest. I wish the good weather and prosperity for people and animals in the coming year. Two days before New Year's Eve, the house was cleaned inside and outside, with new card mats and New Year pictures. Before dinner, sprinkle dry flour on the middle wall of the kitchen. Draw the symbol ""on the gate with lime powder, symbolizing eternal auspiciousness, indicating that life is rich, food is abundant, and the year is safe. On New Year's Eve, all kinds of food are placed in front of the Buddha statue. In order to have enough food during the festival, the whole family is still busy until late at night. For dinner this evening, everyone should eat instant noodles (ancient instant noodles). In the dough technology, the dough with different fillings such as stone, pepper, charcoal and wool was specially made. Every kind of stuffing has a saying: stone means hard heart, charcoal means black heart, pepper means knife mouth, and wool means soft heart. Those who ate these sandwiches threw up impromptu and caused laughter to help New Year's Eve. This is a kind of food and entertainment activity. No matter who eats anything, they have to spit it out impromptu, which often causes laughter and adds festive atmosphere to the festival.

On the first day of the first year, young crops, oil gizzards, sheep heads and grain barrels are placed on the coffee table of the Buddhist shrine, wishing a prosperous life in the new year. On New Year's Day, housewives carry "auspicious water" from the river, then wake up the whole family and sit down according to their generation. When the elders bring grain barrels, each person first grabs a few grains and throws them into the sky as a symbol of offering sacrifices to the gods, and then grabs some in turn and sends them to the mouth. Afterwards, the elders wished "Tashdedele" (good luck) in turn, and the younger generation congratulated "Tashdedele Pengsongcuo" (good luck, good thing). After the ceremony, they will eat large grain and ginseng fruit cooked in ghee, and then toast highland barley wine. It is generally forbidden to sweep the floor, not to say unlucky words and not to visit each other on the first day of junior high school.

The next day, friends and relatives exchanged New Year greetings and presented Hada. Men, women and children all put on festive costumes and say "Tashildler" and "Happy Holidays" to each other when they meet. This activity lasts for three to five days. During the Tibetan New Year, in the square or open lawn, everyone dances in a circle, hand in hand with the accompaniment of lyre, cymbals, gongs and other musical instruments. People step on the ground to celebrate festivals and sing songs, and children set off firecrackers. The whole area is immersed in a festive, festive and peaceful atmosphere. Singing Tibetan opera, jumping in pots and villages, and skewering in urban and rural areas. In pastoral areas, herders light bonfires and sing and dance all night. People also engage in wrestling, throwing, tug-of-war, horse racing, archery and other activities.

Prepare "Chema"

The preparation for the New Year usually begins at the beginning of1February of the previous year. In addition to buying new year's goods, eating, drinking and having fun, every household should make a grain barrel called "cutting horses", that is, on the left and right sides of a wooden box painted with colorful patterns, stir-fried wheat grains and ghee are put in the rice cake, and green spikes and colorful flowers made of ghee are inserted on it. We should also soak a bowl of highland barley seeds in water to make them grow an inch or two in the new year. "chariots and horses" and wheat seedlings are enshrined in the middle of the magic plan, praying for a bumper harvest in the coming year.