What are the traditional festivals in Kangding?

Mountain meeting time: the eighth day of April in the lunar calendar and the fifteenth day of April in the Tibetan calendar. It is said that this day is the day when Sakyamuni was born. Religious activities of Tibetan customs are extremely frequent this month. Buddhists believe that if you do a good deed and praise the Buddha in this month, you can get a hundred thousand times of merits.

Therefore, Buddhist believers take the lead in inviting neighbors, relatives and friends, carrying Mani flags and prayer flags, chanting Buddhist scriptures at the mouth of beads and turning mountains. After climbing the mountain, Tibetans gathered on Kuaima Mountain, singing tibetan songs, performing Tibetan operas, jumping over pots and putting up tents. There are a sea of people on the flat land in the ravine, and people come and go on the mountain road. The time of the Dharma God Dance: June 6th in Tibetan calendar-17th, held at Tagong Temple in Dugong Grassland. A few days before the dance began, it was the stage of chanting and inviting God.

Everyone in the temple concentrates on chanting scriptures and invites immortals and dharma gods to come. Jockey Club Time: Horse racing on the 15th day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional entertainment activity loved by Tibetan people in Zhexi area of Kangding. It is held on May 15 of the lunar calendar every year in Tagong Grassland, praying for avoiding hail in first frost, blessing the bumper harvest of grains and the prosperity of six livestock. Lantern Festival: October 25th of the lunar calendar, also known as Lantern Festival.

It is an annual ritual activity for the disciples of Gelug Sect (Yellow Sect) of Tibetan Buddhism to mourn the founder Zong Kaba. It used to take a lot of lanterns to light, so it was difficult to get them ready at once. So the round root (a vegetable and fruit shaped like a white radish) was cut down and made into a round root lantern, which was enshrined in front of the Buddha statue and placed in various places in the temple. Now it has been replaced by electric light.