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Butter sculpture Lantern Festival is which national festival?

Butter sculpture Lantern Festival is a Tibetan festival.

Butter sculpture Lantern Festival is a traditional Tibetan festival, which is held on June 65438+ 10/5 every year in the Tibetan calendar, so it is also called "Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month".

Butter carving Lantern Festival, Tibetans will worship Buddha and turn scriptures during the day, and temples will also hold cultural activities. Twenty or thirty actors wearing tibetan opera masks and embroidered robes will sing and dance with instrumental music such as loudspeakers, cowhide drums and gongs and drums. At night, the temples are decorated with lanterns, and the main streets are set up with various flower stands, ghee sculptures and butter lamps to pray. In the flashing of butter lamps, all kinds of butter sculptures present various aesthetic feelings.

Young girls in traditional society are not allowed to go out for free activities, but they can go out to play together on holidays. Many unmarried men and women can also find their sweetheart by watching lanterns, so the Lantern Festival has also created countless beautiful marriages and happy families, and many poems express their love through the Lantern Festival.

Tibetan traditional festivals:

1, Sagadawa Festival

April in Tibetan calendar is called "Sagadawa". According to legend, Buddha Sakyamuni was born in Lumbini on the 7th of the Tibetan Iron Monkey Year, and meditated under a big bodhi tree near Bodhgaya on the 5th of Trojan Horse Year/Kloc, facing the east, spreading grass and living there. At night, the devil was subdued, and at dawn, Sagadawa died in the city where he was detained on the 15th.

2. Disseminate Dafa Association

Tibetan customs regard this month as the month of Universiade, and the majority of monks and nuns carry out various Buddhist activities. Traditionally, especially in the first half of the month of Sagadawa, it goes without saying that the general public also has the custom of abstaining from killing and meat, and all turn their hearts to Buddhism.

3. Cixi, Juba

On June 4th, the Tibetan calendar, Sakyamuni first told his five disciples, Ru Chen, Ma Sheng, Shiva, Daming and Posto Tirigayi, that he had realized the truth. With simple language and vivid metaphor, he explained to his disciples the distress, impermanence and endless reincarnation of life and death, analyzed the causes of life distress, confirmed the mystery of nirvana's quiet realm, and pointed out the way to get rid of reincarnation, live in misery forever and lead to the other side of nirvana.