Traditional festivals of ethnic minorities and the corresponding description

Nadam Conference Mongolian traditional festivals and events. "Naadam", also known as "Nayar", the Mongolian translation, meaning "entertainment", "get together" or "game". Originated from the ancient sacrifice of Ovoo. More in July and August in the season of abundant water and grass, livestock fat and strong, so there is "Ovoo Nayar" said. Generally once a year, depending on the scale of the festival, each one to three days, or five to seven days. Scale also varies in size, the country, autonomous regions, small counties, townships, and even individuals can also be organized. In the past, it was only held in the Mongolian steppe, now living in Beijing, Shenyang, Harbin and other major cities of the Mongolian people are also held in Naadam Assembly. Men, women and children dressed in costumes, riding horses and carts, and bringing yurts, come from near and far to participate in the event. In the past, Naadam was an activity of both ancestor worship and mass entertainment. Wrestling, archery and horse racing were the three games that Naadam must have, commonly known as "Men's Triathlon Naadam". Before the liberation, NaDaMu for the princes, pastor, lama living Buddha, the control of treacherous businessmen, become their pleasure, exploitation of the people's place. Now Nada Mu, ancestor worship content gradually weakened, and the development of mass cultural entertainment and material exchange event. In addition to the traditional three games, there are chess, tug-of-war, song and dance, sports, film and television screenings, photo exhibitions and the promotion of science and technology, and the exchange of a variety of agricultural and animal husbandry specialties, brick tea, cloth, silk, daily necessities and other products. Since the reform and opening up, Naadam Assembly more closely linked with economic and trade activities, promote the economic development of Inner Mongolia and investment activities. Tibetan New Year The Tibetan New Year is the most important traditional festival of the year for the Tibetan people. Before the festival, each family should clean the house, ready fried fruit, barley wine, ghee, tea, ginseng fruit, tsampa, fried broad beans, enema, beef and mutton and other rich food, outside the door, beams, stove wall sprinkled with flour, and outside the door painted on the symbol of good luck, eternal "eight auspicious emblems", in the interior of the coffee table on the set is called the "Droso Cheema". "Droso Cheema" of the grains bucket, filled with tsampa, ginseng fruit, fried barley flowers, inserted on top of the barley spikes of various colors, cockscomb and ghee offerings. There are also lamps, ghee flowers molded sheep's head, potted barley seedlings, etc., to mark the past year's harvest, wishing for a bumper agricultural harvest in the new year. The day before New Year's Eve, each family in the sun is about to set, all the sewage filth to both sides of the pour off. The Tibetans believe that this is a guarantee of prosperity and growth of all things. The day before dawn, women will go to the river or well back "auspicious water", so that the family wash and feed the livestock. The first day before eating, the mouth must be dipped in a little tsampa to show that they are eating tsampa children and grandchildren. During the festival, the old and young family put on new clothes, first at home to bless each other. Some people go to the temple to worship the Buddha, ask the Bodhisattva to bless peace and prosperity, and then go to participate in various collective activities. Whether men and women, young and old, to meet each other to wish "Zaxi Dele" (Tibetan, good luck), some also have to toast each other. In the evening young men and women around the bonfire, dancing robust pot Zhuang dance, tap dance. The first day do not visit each other, from the beginning of the second day, each other to friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year, lasted 3 ~ 5 days.