Which nationality is the Fairy Festival? What festival is this?

Everyone likes fairies, but we don't know if there are fairies in reality, but there are festivals like Fairy Festival in reality. Do you know which nation Fairy Festival belongs to? If you want to know what festival Fairy Festival is and what customs and activities it has, you can see my introduction to Fairy Festival.

Which nationality is the Fairy Festival?

Fairy Festival is a traditional festival for Nu and Tibetan people in China. Nu people are held on March 15 of the lunar calendar every year, and Tibetans are held on 10/8 of the Tibetan calendar every year.

Fairy Festival, also known as "Flower Festival", takes the caves with stalactites in each village as fairy caves, and people carry sacrificial supplies for sacrifice. After the sacrifice, families held banquets and drank alcohol, while young men and women put on holiday clothes and went to an open place for archery competitions. At the same time, various material exchange parties will be held.

The Tibetan Fairy Festival has gradually evolved into a festival for Tibetan women. They will get up early to dress up, then go to Barkhor Street in Lhasa to stew mulberry and pray, and go to Jokhang Temple to offer Hada to the goddess and make a wish.

What festival is Fairy Festival?

Fairy Festival is a traditional festival for Nu and Tibetan people. Nu people are held on March 15 of the lunar calendar every year, and Tibetans are held on June 10 of the Tibetan calendar every year. The Fairy Festival is also called "Flower Festival", and caves with stalactites are selected as fairy caves in each village. The Tibetan Fairy Festival has gradually evolved into a festival for Tibetan women. They will get up early to dress up, and then go to Barkhor Street in Lhasa to stew mulberry leaves, pray and make wishes.

Custom activities of fairy festival

On the morning of the festival, the cave with stalactites was chosen as the fairy cave in each village. The Nu people put on their costumes, brought prepared sacrifices and picnics, held bunches of flowers in their hands, and went to the cave near the village to offer sacrifices, worship their fairy, Ah Rong, and hold dinners and various entertainment activities. People eat, drink, sing and dance, and the whole valley is immersed in a quaint and grand festive atmosphere.

Because some Nu people believe in Tibetan Buddhism, there are many prayer flags and thangkas hanging around the altar in front of Fairy Cave. The altar was filled with all kinds of sacrifices, and old people in red and yellow religious uniforms sat on both sides of the altar. They play suona, drum, gong and chant. There is a 3-meter-high incense burner next to the altar, with pine branches, flowers and colorful flags on it, and old corn on the top of a long bamboo pole. Pine branches symbolize good luck and eternal happiness, corn symbolizes bumper harvest and more than a year, and flowers are dedicated to the fairy A Rong.

In the sound of drum music, believers hold flowers and walk around the altar incense burner, inserting flowers between the bamboo poles of the incense burner. After that, people go to the fairy cave to worship flowers and drink fairy water.

After the whole sacrificial ceremony, families held banquets and drank wine, and people sat around the hillside, putting the prepared food on the ground covered with pine needles and eating and drinking. They sang while eating and drinking, and stepped on cheerful dance steps when they got up. The hillside is full of quaint and grand festive atmosphere. Young men and women in holiday costumes go to an open place to take part in archery competitions. At the same time, various materials exchange meetings will be held to attract local people of all ethnic groups to buy. At night, young men and women light bonfires. By the campfire, they sang love songs and danced happily all night.

With the development of the times, the ritual of offering sacrifices to fairies has gradually faded, and singing and dancing for fun and sports competition have become the main activities of Fairy Festival.

Tibetan immortal festival ceremony

Every morning on the Tibetan calendar 10, 15, the grass on the outskirts of Lhasa is still covered with a layer of frost, but Barkhor Street in the city center has long been buzzing and smoked by mulberry trees.

On this day, women in Lhasa will get up early, dress up deliberately and go out to play collectively. They will go to Barkhor Street to stew mulberries and offer Ciba and wine to the goddess Bandan Ram. Of course, it is also essential to burn incense and pray in front of Brahman statues and make good wishes for their future.

Women in Lhasa have deep respect for Balaam, believing that this goddess can keep herself slim and beautiful, and it is said that the wish made by women in front of Balaam statue on this day is very likely to come true.

There is also a saying interwoven with these legends containing happiness wishes: women who bathe in the river during the bathing festival will basically not catch a cold this year, but on the Tibetan calendar 10+05, women will catch a cold collectively.

Besides going to the Jokhang Temple to worship the goddess Bandan Ram, young girls will also ask men in Lu Yu for money in droves, and men will be particularly generous on this day.

This day is the traditional Tibetan folk festival "Bai La Ri Zhu". For this festival, some people translated it into Bandan Ram Festival, while others translated it into Bai La Ram Festival.