Tibetan Spring Festival custom

Tibetan Spring Festival customs are as follows:

The Tibetan calendar is similar to the China lunar calendar of the Han nationality, and it usually comes within a few days after the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. On the day before New Year's Eve, when the sun was about to set, every household dumped dirty water and dirt to the west. Let those dirty things go with the sunset, as a sign to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and hope that people will prosper and everything will grow.

The preparations for the New Year generally began in the early1February of the previous year. In addition to buying new year's goods, eating, drinking and having fun, every household should also make a grain bucket called chariots and horses. That is, on the left and right sides of the wooden box painted with colorful patterns, stir-fried wheat grains and ghee are put respectively, and colorful flowers made of highland barley ears and ghee are inserted on it. We should also soak a bowl of highland barley seeds in water to make them grow an inch or two in the new year.

Brief introduction of Tibetans

Tibetans, who mainly live on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and use Tibetan, are one of the oldest ethnic groups in China and South Asia. Tibetans have their own spoken and written languages, and Tibetan belongs to the Tibetan branch of Sino-Tibetan language family, which is divided into three dialects: Wei-Zang, Kang and Amdo.

Tibetans generally believe in Tibetan Buddhism, and the Tibetan people have left a very rich cultural heritage in literature, music, dance, painting, sculpture, architectural art and medicine. Tibetans originated from an agricultural tribe in the middle of the Yarlung Zangbo River basin. According to archaeological findings, as early as 4000 years ago, Tibetan ancestors lived and multiplied in the Yarlung Zangbo River basin.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tibetans