What festivals do Tibetans have?

The Snowdon Festival is one of the important festivals for Tibetans in Tibet. It is held on July 1 day every year for four or five days. Xuedun Festival is a Tibetan translation, which means "yogurt feast", so Xuedun Festival is interpreted as a festival for drinking yogurt. According to the regulations of Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism (Yellow Sect), the menstrual period is forbidden from June 15 to July 30 every year in the Tibetan calendar. In order to avoid stepping on insects, lamas in temples and monasteries are not allowed to go out, and they can only go down the mountain after lifting the ban on July 30. When the Lama went down the mountain, farmers and herdsmen took out yogurt to offer sacrifices, forming the Snowdon Festival.

2. Giant Buddha Festival

Buddha's Birthday Festival is a Buddha's Birthday Festival held in Tashilhunpo Temple in the Tibetan calendar of Shigatse, Tibet every May. Tashilhunpo (Tibetan transliteration "Auspicious Xumishan") Temple is the fourth largest temple of Gelug Sect (Yellow Sect) in Tibetan Buddhism. At the foot of Mount Nisai Ri in Shigatse, Tibet, is where the Panchen Lama lives in Tin.

3. Prayer Day

The Festival of Praying for the New Year is the most solemn in Tibetan areas, which is not only a large-scale religious activity, but also a folk festival. The Tibetan name is "Morangchebo". There are two kinds of grand activities in Tibetan areas in this area. One is the Gelug Prayer Festival; One is the primitive Tibetan religion, Running Festival. These two prayer festivals are the same. They are held twice a year, once on June 15th of the lunar calendar and once on the first to third day of the first lunar month. The prayer festival in January is bigger than that in summer.

There are also temples and followers of Benbo religion in the state, which still retains a strong primitive religious custom. On the 13th or 14th day of the first month, people who come to attend the grand event will walk around the sacred mountain Xiaoxitian behind Gummy Temple. On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month, the monks and lamas in the temple put on new robes, and the band in the temple blew the brass trumpets. Then the monks of the whole temple gathered in the lecture hall to recite the scriptures, and the living Buddha arranged his duties on this day.

At about 12, monks performed a "Dance of the Gods" program (also known as "Visiting the Immortal Dance") to pilgrims and audiences all over the world. The content of divine dance includes stories praising the unity of Tibetan and Han nationalities in history, and dances adapted from classic stories of Benbo religion.

4. Fruit Festival

Fruit Festival is a traditional folk custom popular in Xizang Autonomous Region and one of the national intangible cultural heritages. "Wang" refers to crops, which are called "Wangka" or "Xingka" in Tibetan, and "Fruit" means circle, that is, circling around promising crops. Celebrating the harvest is a folk custom of Tibetan farmers. It was first popular in the Yarlung Zangbo River basin, and then widely distributed in agricultural and forest areas in Tibet, such as Lhasa, Shannan, Shigatse, Linzhi, Qamdo and Ali.

There is no fixed date for the fruit festival, which is usually held when the grain is ripe. Due to its unique geographical location and climate environment, it has formed a unique humanistic custom and created a unique folk art culture.

5. Bath Festival

Bath Festival has a history of at least seven or eight hundred years in Tibet. During these seven days, children and old people will go to the river to take a bath. It is said that the river water in these seven days has eight advantages, one is sweet, the other is cool, the third is soft, the fourth is light, the fifth is clear, and the sixth is not smelly. Seven drinks don't hurt the throat, and eight drinks don't hurt the abdomen.