Tibetan festivals and taboos

Festivals: The traditional festivals of the Tibetans mainly include the Tibetan New Year, the June Joy Festival, and in some areas, the Dragon Boat Festival and the August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival. Tibetan New Year is the grandest festival of the year for Tibetan people. In order to celebrate the festival, people start to make all kinds of preparations from the beginning of October in the old calendar year, such as grinding fried noodles, playing ghee and so on. Agricultural area Tibetans also need to clean the house, posting New Year's paintings and so on. Happy Festival, generally in the lunar calendar in mid-June to celebrate.

Taboos: Tibetan people due to long-term religious influence, life taboos are more. Tibetans abstain from eating round hoofed livestock and animals with claws, such as mules, horses, donkeys, dogs, cats, eagles and so on. They are not allowed to borrow their tools and cooking utensils to slaughter or cook these animals. When visiting Tibetan homes and entering tents, men should generally enter from the left side of the rope in the middle of the tent and women from the right side, and sit in the order of men's left and women's right. After entering the tent, one should not step on the pots and pans with one's feet, stretch one's legs in the direction of the offerings to the Buddha and to the elderly, or cross the host's placed . Clothes and hats, etc.

The copper bowl of fresh water displayed in front of the Buddha statue in the tent cannot be taken. Buddha statue can not take off shoes and socks in front of the stove fire door can not bake feet and shoes and socks and other things. When you wash your hands and clothes in a Tibetan home, you should use their spoons to get water in the tank, and not use your own utensils to get water. One must not intentionally hit the dogs of Tibetan people's homes, let alone shoot vultures and eagles with a gun, or urinate or defecate in the place where cattle are tethered to horses or in the sheepfold. When visiting monasteries, one is not allowed to touch sutras, statues and dharma vessels with one's hands, let alone cross them. When spinning the Sutra Wheel in places where there are Sutra Wheels, they should be turned from left to right, not reversed. The heads and hats of Tibetans are generally not to be touched. The paper with Tibetan text and the stone engraved with Tibetan text should not be used as handkerchiefs or touched.