Tibetan Spring Festival custom

Tibetan New Year is the most important folk festival in Tibet. On New Year's Eve, every household should prepare a wooden auspicious bucket called "chariots and horses" to wish the new year a bumper harvest and good luck. We should also prepare Kasai (fried fruit), Luoguo (sheep head), which symbolizes the prosperity of six livestock and every year, as well as various dried and fresh fruits, ghee and tea bricks. , piled in front of the shrine to worship. Tibetan calendar1On February 28th and 29th, every family cleaned the courtyard and painted "Eight Auspicious" patterns on the wall in the middle of the kitchen.

Before dinner on the 29th, every household painted auspicious patterns with lime powder outside the gate, such as the sign of Yongzhong (called "Maruko" in Chinese). On New Year's Eve, every family has a family reunion dinner as usual. The traditional Tibetan New Year's Eve dinner is made of beef, mutton, radish and pimples. Interestingly, some papules are wrapped in symbolic stones, coins, salt, peppers, charcoal, wool and so on.

The whole family sat around a table, each with a bowl, eating the bony process carefully to see who ate what. Stone is strong-willed, pepper is straightforward and pungent, charcoal is deep, wool is warm and moist, peas are smooth, dried peaches are healthy, porcelain is pure, salt is lazy, tribulus means sharpness to people, and so on.

In addition, be a small-faced person with a small head and a big belly. Anyone who appears in his bowl will be punished for barking like a donkey, pretending to bark like a dog and drinking nine tablespoons of noodle soup. Accompanied by this humorous way, the family's New Year's Eve dinner is full of laughter, and the laughter is one after another. After eating the ancient pagoda, a grand ceremony of sending ghosts was held to show the exorcism.

On the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, Lhasa people get up very early, and some even stay up all night, but they can't go out. When the morning star rises and the east dawns, I hear "Rachel!" Shouted by the singer. (God wins), every family opens their doors and begins to celebrate the first day of the New Year.

Every household welcomed Zhega artist as a distinguished guest, presented him with Hada and highland barley wine, sprinkled him with snow-white rice cakes and highland barley grains wishing a bumper harvest, and invited him to drink hot highland barley wine boiled with grains, milk residue, brown sugar and ginseng fruit. In recent years, at the dawn of New Year's Day, radio stations have repeatedly played recordings of Acura, and auspicious and happy wishes have spread all over Tibet in due course with radio waves, which is refreshing.

"Grab Water" is the first program of Tibetan New Year's Day. Late at night, Tibetans in many places are walking towards the river, braving the cold of MINUS 20 or 30 degrees, waiting for dawn. This custom holds that whoever scoops the first bucket of water will get the best luck. Lhasa people generally don't go to the river to fetch water because the road is too far. Several wells in this city are thought to be connected with rivers, lakes and oceans. Well water is holy water, and the surrounding residents line up to drink it in the early morning of New Year's Day.

Early this morning, I will eat as hard as I can, which means I won't be hungry all the year round.

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