What are the customs of Tibetan New Year?

Customs of the Tibetan New Year:

1. It is necessary to make Chema, a wooden bucket painted with colorful patterns on the outside, which contains fried barley and tsampa mixed with ghee, with spikes of barley and flowers of ghee inserted on it.

2. The tsampa is painted with eight auspicious pictures such as treasure umbrella, goldfish, vase, wonderful lotus, conch, auspicious knot, victory block and golden wheel, which indicate auspiciousness.

3, on the first day of the new year, go to the river to grab auspicious water, the housewife of each family to carry back the first bucket of water in the new year, pouring into the bowl of purified water in front of the statue of the Buddha and so on.

The Tibetan calendar used in Tibet is clearly documented as having begun in 1027 AD. Before that, it is rumored that as early as one hundred years BC, the Tibetan people were counting the months by the moon's fullness, shortness, solstice and hope. And to barley ripening as the beginning of the New Year.

Tibetan New Year's Eve, by the head of the family held up a torch to walk around the corners of the house, the mouth must also keep shouting "(poor ghosts, ghosts) roll out, roll out ......" and so on after the turn, will be the torch with the pre-prepared under the Shi Ghosts food thrown to the Roadside, that will be the year's bad luck, bad luck out of the house, the New Year will have new weather.

The Tibetan calendar, like the lunar calendar, has twelve months in a year, with thirty days in the big month and twenty-nine days in the small month. The Tibetan calendar also has two leap months in four years, which means that there is a leap month in about a thousand days. But and the lunar calendar is different, the Tibetan calendar provides "hope" must be the 15th day of the month.