National festivals in Lhasa

Lhasa is the capital of Xizang Autonomous Region, where most Tibetans live. Because of different national beliefs, there are many wonderful national festivals worth watching. If you are interested in Tibetan culture, I suggest you come to these festivals so that you can fully experience the customs of ethnic minorities. The hottest Tibetan festival here is naturally the Xuedun Festival, which falls on the first day of July in the Tibetan calendar, that is, August in our solar calendar. Sutton Festival has many other names, such as Yogurt Festival, Tibetan Opera Festival and Buddha Exhibition Festival. In Lhasa, the Snowdon Festival usually lasts for seven days. During this period, you can visit the Buddha-drying ceremonies in drepung monastery and Tibet. Drepung monastery attached great importance to the Buddhist body washing ceremony. Generally, if you want to see it, you need to go out at 4 am, but the whole activity is only 20 minutes. However, the Buddha bathing ceremony here may not be very important to us, but it is a sacred day for the Tibetan people. On this day, you can see that after the Buddha statue is unfolded, people will give Hada and money to the Buddha statue and pile it inside. After that, the monks here will erect the whole Buddha statue. You can touch it. If you touch it, it means good luck. After watching the sunbathing ceremony, people here will have a picnic behind drepung monastery, and you can also attend. Tibetan calendar 65438+1 October1,Tibetan New Year, is another traditional Tibetan festival here. On New Year's Eve here, people will also perform exorcism ceremonies. Because of people's beliefs here, this ceremony is more valued, and then a New Year's Eve dinner is held. On the first day of the new year, people here will worship highland barley wine and "chariots and horses" to each other, which symbolizes good luck in the new year. The New Year here usually lasts until the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, during which some Buddhist temples will hold performances. On this day, Jokhang Temple is open all day, and everyone will visit Jokhang Temple. The butter sculpture Lantern Festival is similar to the Lantern Festival here. You can see many beautiful butter sculptures here. It will be more brilliant to light butter lanterns at night. There are many other festivals in Lhasa, such as the fruit festival here, which are all caused by different cultural backgrounds here. Come to Lhasa and experience the traditional festivals of the Tibetan people here. You will like the local customs here better and know Lhasa better. /p