How to celebrate the New Year in Tibet

The Tibetan New Year is very hygienic, to the Tibetan calendar December 28 to December 29, Tibetan compatriots will be cleaned up their respective premises. In addition, every family should prepare a called "bamboo Suqi Ma" wooden grain bucket, bucket filled with food, and then it will be fried with pasta, barley wine, sheep's head, fruit, tea, ghee and other daily food placed in the main hall above the Tibetan cabinet in front of the door with tsampa or white powder painted on the auspicious patterns, wishing the new year a bumper crop, people and animals.

On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, the Tibetan people also eat a reunion dinner with the mainlanders. The traditional Tibetan New Year will also be held "exorcism" ceremony. Tibetans to the first day of the New Year will come to a "water race". According to Tibetan tradition, the first day of the Tibetan calendar, who grabbed the first bucket of water, is "gold water", the second bucket of water is called "silver water", heralding good luck, luck, prosperity.

In the Lhasa area, the people will be dressed with "bamboo Suqi Ma" (grain bucket), barley wine, mutual expression of respect, and dedication of Hadar, chanting: "Zaxi Dele" (good luck) of the toast. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many Buddhist farmers and herdsmen also went to Lhasa's Da Zhao Temple for pilgrimage, praying for peace and health in the New Year. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the activities of visiting friends and relatives make the streets and alleys lively, everywhere is "Luosha (New Year) Zaxi Dele!" The sound of blessings.

The activities of the third day of the Lunar New Year are mainly religious, cultural and sports content, the turning of the road, the roof filled with thick smoke, young people on the roof and mountain tops insert colorful streamers to pray for blessings and avoid disasters, while the majority of farmers and herdsmen will also be held in a new horse saddle ceremony, horse racing, tug-of-war, throwing and other colorful recreational activities. Tibetan New Year celebrations will continue until the 15th day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar.