What are the traditional Tibetan festivals called?

Traditional Tibetan festivals include the Xuedun Festival, the Buddha Worship Festival, the New Year Prayer Festival, the Fruit Watching Festival, the Buddha Exhibition Festival, the Tibetan New Year Festival, the Mountain God Festival, the Lantern Festival and the Incense Festival.

These traditional festivals are very important to Tibetans. Tibet has a vast territory, and people here attach great importance to the inheritance of traditional culture, so the local traditional festival celebrations are very grand. Tibetan traditional festivals have a strong Buddhist color; Tibetan Buddhist civilization is attached to Tibetan traditional festivals and passed down.

According to historical records in China, Tibetans belonged to a branch of the Western Qiang nationality in the Han Dynasty and originated from an agricultural tribe in the middle of the Yarlung Zangbo River basin. Tibetans are one of the 56 ethnic groups in China and the aborigines of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In China, it is mainly distributed in Xizang Autonomous Region, Qinghai and western Sichuan, as well as in Diqing, Yunnan and Gannan, Gansu. Lhasa is a sacred place in the hearts of Tibetans.

Customs of Tibetan traditional festivals;

Guowang Festival has a history of 1500 years, and it is a traditional festival in people in Xizang that longs for a bumper harvest. The fruit festival lasts for one to three days and is held on auspicious days before the autumn harvest. At this time of the year, the Tibetan people are dressed in festive costumes, some holding colorful flags, some holding harvest towers made of barley and wheat ears, and wearing white "Hada".

Tibetan New Year is a traditional New Year for the Tibetan people and one of the most solemn festivals in Tibet. Temple monks and laymen celebrate together. Family activities, such as go-karting, putting on "cutting horses", eating "ancient gifts", carrying water and greeting each other, are similar to the importance of the mainland Spring Festival.