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What are the main Tibetan festivals?

1, Tibetan New Year

Tibetan New Year is a traditional New Year for the Tibetan people, and it is one of the most solemn festivals, which are celebrated by monks and laymen in temples.

Family activities such as go-karting, putting on "cutting horses", exorcising ghosts, eating "ancient gifts", carrying water and paying New Year greetings are similar in importance to the Chinese New Year in mainland China.

2. Snowden Festival

The Snowdon Festival is the biggest and grandest festival in * * *.

The Snowdon Festival is a festival for eating yogurt.

People will provide yoghourt for monks and ask for the highest blessing.

Now it has gradually evolved into traditional Buddha exhibitions, cultural performances, sports competitions, investment promotion, economic and trade negotiations, commodity display, tourism and leisure.

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3. Fruit Festival

Fruit Festival is a festival for farmers to celebrate the harvest.

It is very popular in * * *, Shigatse, Shannan and other places in * * * autonomous region.

"Looking at the fruit" is a circle around the harvest field, which is used to express prayers and blessings for a bumper harvest.

The holiday time changes with the change of regional agricultural activities.

It is usually held two or three days after green sorghum is cooked and harvested.

4. Bath Festival

Bath Festival has a history of at least seven or eight hundred years in * *.

During these seven days, children and old people will bathe in the river. 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 cups won't hurt your throat, and eight cups won't hurt your stomach.

5. Fairy Festival

Fairy Festival is the biggest women's festival in * * *.

They will get up early and dress up, then go to the vicissitudes of Barkhor Street, offer Hada to Jokhang Temple and make a wish for the goddess.

Women also enjoy the privilege of asking for gifts or red envelopes from men or even strangers around them, and men usually "agree" generously.

6. God's Day

According to legend, this day is the day when Sakyamuni returned to the world after enlightening his mother, Mrs. Mo Ye, in the "Heaven", so it is called "heaven drop" or "divine drop".

Later, in order to commemorate this day and sincerely invite Sakyamuni to return to the world, believers will hold activities in various temples every year on the day of "Heavenly Sacrifice".