Tibetan Customs

Tibetan custom is a ceremonial practice which includes bowing, toasting tea and offering hatha.

For elders or respected people, one takes off the hat, bends forty-five degrees and holds the hat in the hand low near the ground. For ordinary people or peers, bow only to show courtesy, hat on the chest, head slightly lower. Offering Hada is one of the most common rituals among the Tibetans. Wedding and funeral festivals, pay homage to the elders, see the Buddha, news exchange, send off a long distance and so on, have the habit of offering hatha.

The Tibetans greeted the guests in addition to dipping their hands in wine and playing three times, but also in the grain bucket to catch a little barley, thrown into the air three times. At the banquet, the host picks up the wine cup and drinks the mouth first, and then drinks it all in one go. After the host drinks the first cup of wine, everyone can drink freely. Drinking tea, the guest must wait for the host to hold the tea in front to reach out and drink, otherwise considered rude. On New Year's Day. To the Tibetan family guests, the host should be toast.

The origin of Tibetan customs

Our modern Tibetan compatriots have many customs and ways of life, which were passed down from the ancient Elephant and Castle era. For example, the Tibetan people's marriage and funeral, astronomy and calendar, medical literature, song, dance and painting, traveling and choosing a house, then choose an auspicious day, drive away disasters and evil spirits, divination and so on to a certain extent, also still inherited the tradition of the Yongzong religion.

Tibetan compatriots also have many unique ways of praying for blessings: for example, turn the sacred mountain, worship the sacred lake, spread the wind horse flag, hanging colorful streamers, engraved stone scripture, placed Mani pile (the tradition of this religion is engraved with the eight words of the light: "buzzing Ma Zhi Mouye Salinde" of the pile of stones), playing the trigrams, offerings to the Duo Ma plate, ghee flowers and even the use of the Bible tube! etc., these are the legacy of the Yongzong religion.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tibet Autonomous Region