Tibetan Dragon Boat Festival Customs

Dragon Boat Festival Customs in Tibet

The customs of each place are different, we eat zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival in China to honor our great poet Qu Yuan. In Tibet you know how the Dragon Boat Festival customs? The following is my search of the Tibetan Dragon Boat Festival customs, I hope to help you.

Tibetan Dragon Boat Festival - Auspicious Sangjemangla

The Tibetans in the Drakang area also celebrated the festival on the day of the Han Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, but instead of calling it the Dragon Boat Festival, it is called the Sangjemangla Festival, which means ? Medicine Buddha Festival? When the mainland han people eat zongzi, in the lintel all inserted wormwood, rowing dragon boat to commemorate qu yuan, Zhuo cang area of Tibetans are eating ground vegetable buns, archery competitions, to commemorate the great to the earth to bring health and tranquility of the medicine master buddha. The Dzocang area also has the habit of inserting flowers and plants on the lintel, but instead of mugwort, it is Jima Meadow, which grows in the Dzocang mountains and fields. It is said that drinking the mountain spring water on this day of Sanjemangla can cure all the diseases in the world, and bathing with the spring water on this day can strengthen the body and prolong the life. So Drokang Tibetans have the habit of drinking mountain spring water and bathing on this day. Children go to the river bank, woods and cliffs to pick orchid-colored, tender, shaped like a stallion's tail. The children go to the riverbanks, woods and cliffs to pick orchid-colored, soft and tender ones, shaped like a stallion's tail. Mothers would put on their children's incense sachets with a variety of fragrant herbs to pray for the Medicine Buddha's blessing on their healthy growth. At this time in the summer heat, cold noodles are essential, with home-made cold noodles, seasoned with fresh leeks chopped into foam, vinegar and chili, sour and spicy, not to mention how refreshing, many families in this day also eat the ground vegetable buns.

The Tibetan medical masterpiece "four medical codex" said, Tibetan medicine is in the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss in the City of Medicine by the whole body emanating blue glazed light of the Medicine Buddha directly taught, so the Medicine Buddha in the Tubot culture occupies a very important position, but according to the author's knowledge, there is no special commemoration of the Medicine Buddha's festival in Tibetan areas. Only in the northeastern edge of the Tibetan region and the Han Chinese mixed zone of the Zhuochang Tibetan in part of the acceptance of the Han culture at the same time, skillfully transformed into a festival to commemorate the Medicine Buddha for the human health and tranquility of the Medicine Buddha and generation after generation to tenaciously adhere to, which is a population of only 10,000 people in the state of the Tibetan community, it can not be said that is a kind of interesting cultural phenomenon.

Tibetan Danyang Horse Race

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, at an altitude of 3,288 meters of the Shangri-La meadow, wildflowers in full bloom, the Tibetan people's annual Danyang Horse Race (also known as the Heavenly Horse Festival) opened ceremoniously. During the festival, people traveled with their families, set up tents at the foot of the dam, picnic, feast. Waiting for the start of the horse race, people will gather in the spacious lawn to watch the wonderful performance of riders from all over the world. Horse racing has more than speed, more than footwork, more than the gun flag on the horse, running horse pick up and performances such as material content. The winning rider, not only for their own to capture the prize, but also for their own village to win the honor.

The Horse Racing Festival is a traditional? Shangri-La May Horse Race? The continuation and development of the meeting period of three days, is the Diqing Shangri-La ethnic masses of the most grand traditional folk festival, but also Shangri-La's legal holidays. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, people of all ethnic groups converge on the eastern outskirts of the county five Fengshan foothills meadows, held the annual horse race, although the festival coincides with the Han DuanYang Festival, but its formation of Tibetan in Shangri-La has its own unique background of political history and natural geographic conditions. According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period to the Qin and Han dynasties, to sister Qiang as the main Jiantang tribal alliance in the grasslands of Shangri-La established? Ancient Kingdom of Jiantang?


Ancient Jiantang Kingdom is a place where cavalrymen from the Jiantang Kingdom practiced their horsemanship and became a horse-training ground.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the Tibetans

The Dragon Boat Festival of the Tibetans is known to Tibetans as the Caihua Festival, a traditional Tibetan festival. Popular in Gansu and Sichuan border Boyu area. When in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the festival period of two days. Also called. Daughter Festival. According to legend, a long time ago, the local barren, is a lotus Chi girl taught people to planting, taught people to pick flowers to cure the disease. Later, the girl fell to her death on the fifth day of the fifth month when she went up the mountain to pick flowers. In order to commemorate her, people gradually formed the Flower Picking Festival. The main activities of the festival are water grabbing, flower picking and blessing. In the morning of the festival, people have to grab spring water to wash themselves and drink, and it is said that this day the sun does not shine the spring water bath can get good luck, drinking can get rid of diseases. Then, young men and women dressed in full costume, with delicious food, to 40 miles away in the mountains of Arikan to pick flowers. When they set off, all the men, women and children in the village sing songs of joy to see them off, while the flower-pickers express their determination and desire to pick flowers. When they arrive at the flower-picking platform, the girls pick flowers, the boys cut firewood, set up pots and scaffolds, and in the evening they begin to sing and dance until the middle of the night. When they return to the village the next day, the girls put flowers and garlands on their heads and carry baskets full of flowers and herbs. To the village, the whole village gathered at the head of the village, shotgun salute, send wine to send buns, congratulate the return of young people picking flowers; flower picking girl to each household gifts, and blessing.