What are the traditional Tibetan festivals?

Different from the Han nationality, Tibetans use Tibetan calendars, and they have been carrying out their usual production and living activities. And according to their own living habits, they have their own special festivals. These festivals are used for offering sacrifices, celebrating, guiding production and life, or expressing gratitude.

1, Tibetan calendar (Tibetan calendar begins on the first day of the first month)

More than 950 years ago, that is, the year of Ding Mao in the lunar calendar (AD 1027), Tibetans began the Tibetan calendar year. The Tibetan calendar year is a festival custom, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality.

Every year, the Tibetan calendar begins on the first day of the first month, ranging from three to five days. /kloc-in early February, people began to prepare new year's goods, and every household soaked highland barley seeds in pots to cultivate young crops. In the Tibetan calendar year, although they ate different things, their eating habits were the same as those of the Han nationality. For example, on New Year's Eve or 29 th, they have a New Year's Eve dinner, and everyone gets together in the evening, and everyone wants to eat noodles. On the first day of the new year, I wish you good luck and a happy New Year respectively. Return gifts the next day, exchange gifts and wear new clothes.

During the Tibetan New Year, in the square or open lawn, everyone dances in a circle, hand in hand with the accompaniment of lyre, cymbals, gongs and other musical instruments. People step on the ground to celebrate festivals and sing songs, and children set off firecrackers. The whole area is immersed in a festive, festive and peaceful atmosphere. Singing Tibetan opera, jumping in pots and villages, and skewering in urban and rural areas. In pastoral areas, herders light bonfires and sing and dance all night. People also engage in wrestling, throwing, tug-of-war, horse racing, archery and other activities.

2. Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the first lunar month)

Popular in Baoxing County. It is held on the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. On that day, people gathered at the foot of the mountain, holding lanterns, performing lion dances and singing and dancing heartily. A unique wrestling match between men and women is held at night, and the result is often that men lose and women win, which causes bursts of laughter and pushes the festival activities to a climax.

3. Xie Shui Festival (the sixth day of the third lunar month)

Popular in Mianning County. It is held every year on the sixth day of the third lunar month. Its main contents are praying for rain and praying for children. On that day, the Lama brought the frogs, snakes and toads made by Bazin, and one or two people from each family went together. When he came to the ditch, the Lama recited the scriptures and put the animals made of Ciba into the water. When they came back, everyone was wearing rain gear and shouting, indicating that it had begun to rain. Then people went to worship a round tower. There are knives and gongs in the tower, which represent fertility. A woman who has been married for a long time and has no children makes a wish to the tower god and prays for her children. Nong, who gave birth to a child after worshipping the tower, will go to worship the tower that day to fulfill his promise.

4. Mountain Transfer Meeting (the eighth day of the fourth lunar month)

Traditional Tibetan festivals, also known as the Wooden Buddha Festival, offer sacrifices to mountain gods. Popular in Ganzi and Aba Tibetan areas. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Shui Ye, Kowloon bathes it, so it is also called Mufo Festival. On this day every year, people from far and near in Ganzi Tibetan areas wear national costumes and gather on Happy Valley Mountain and Zheduo River. People first go to the temple to burn incense and pray, and burn paper money. Then turn to the mountain to worship the gods and pray for their blessing. After climbing the mountain, we set up a tent for a picnic and watched Tibetan opera. Singing folk songs, dancing pot and string dances, and riders also have horse racing and archery competitions. During this period, people will also hold material exchange activities and other cultural and sports activities.

5. White Horse Song Club (before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day)

Holiday customs of Baima Tibetans. Popular in Pingwu County, it is held around Tomb-Sweeping Day every year. Baima Tibetans can sing and dance well, and traditional cultural activities will be held during the Spring Festival in Han areas. With the development of economy and the introduction of new culture, they have the desire to create their own festivals. The relevant departments took advantage of the trend and held the first shanzhai song concert at 1982. Since then, it has become a practice to hold it once a year.

6. Karin Festival (around May of Tibetan calendar 1)

Tibetan is called "Zimulin Sangji", which means "Happy World Day". Some people call it a "suburban banquet". This is a traditional entertainment day for Tibetan people in Lhasa, Shigatse and Qamdo, Xizang Autonomous Region. The Tibetan calendar is held around May 1 every year, and the holiday period is uncertain, and in some places it lasts for more than ten days. At that time, Tibetan people will bring food, highland barley wine, buttered tea, mats, tents, and various entertainment tools and musical instruments to the elegant and quiet Karin (Tibetan transliteration means garden, garden with willows, so people call it "playing willow"). Set up a white tent on the lawn and under the old tree, wrap some sheets or plastic sheets, lay a card mat, play the lyre while drinking butter tea or highland barley wine, and have a picnic together. Some play poker, some play chess, croquet or chat and laugh, and some sing and dance on the green grass. In addition, some religious ceremonies, horse riding, archery and other cultural and sports activities will be held during the festival.

7. Flower-picking Festival (fifth day of May)

Traditional Tibetan festivals in Apollo, Nanping County. It is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year for two days. Legend has it that long ago, Apollo was a remote valley. People gather and hunt for a living, and make clothes out of leaves and skins. One day, a girl named Lian Zhi came from far away. She is beautiful, kind and intelligent. She taught the local people to farm, weave, sew clothes, and collect lilies to treat others. One year, on the fifth day of May, Lianzhi went up the mountain to collect flowers and was swept down the cliff by the nickel wind and died. People are very sad, so they go up the mountain to pick flowers on this day to commemorate her. Over time, the flower picking festival was formed.

8. Flower Festival (June of the lunar calendar)

Also known as Flower Festival, it is very popular in Marcand. It is held in June of the lunar calendar every year, generally lasting for 3-5 days, and in some places it is as long as 10. People take food, set up tents, ride horses, and go to the wild to enjoy the mountain flowers in droves. They set up tents, boiled butter tea, poured green pear wine, ate, drank, enjoyed flowers and prayed. Light a bonfire, sing and dance at night. During the festival, there will be activities such as wrestling and horse racing. It is also an opportunity for young men and women to fall in love.

9. Huanglong Temple Fair (June 15)

Huanglong Temple Fair is a traditional festival of Tibetan, Qiang, Hui and Han nationalities in Aba Prefecture. The annual summer calendar was held in Huanglong Temple in Songpan County on June 15. Huanglong Temple, located in the mountains at the southern foot of Minshan Mountain in Songpan County, Aba Prefecture, is backed by Snow Leopard, the main peak of Minshan Mountain at an altitude of more than 5,700 meters. Because the clear spring on the top of the mountain contains calcium, it is covered with a milky yellow natural wonder like Huanglong, inlaid with more than 3,400 colorful places, connected into a colorful one. Later generations built temples to attract believers from neighboring provinces, prefectures and counties to worship, and gradually formed folk festivals.

Every year from the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, tourists from all over the world come here by horse, car or foot, bringing cooking utensils and tents. At the rally, people will not only watch the scenery of Huanglong Temple, but also hold Tibetan opera performances and folk song duets. Young brave people will also have wrestling, archery and other activities. June 15 is the climax of the festival. Huanglong Temple and the surrounding hillside forest are lined with various local products, forming a grand material exchange meeting. The old people went into the temple to burn incense and pray for life safety. Young people are singing and dancing all night.

10, Flower Festival (June 18th of the lunar calendar)

Tibetan is called "Ruomu Bird", which means to view the mountain. It is held every year on June 18th of the lunar calendar. Usually in the village, playing together in tents. Each activity ranges from three or four days to more than ten days. During the flower viewing festival, people presented Hada to the guests who came to visit, and warmly welcomed them into the cashier's office to entertain guests. In the evening, men and women, old and young, hand in hand, accompanied by a string of bells in the hands of the dance captain, sang folk songs and danced around the bonfire all night.

1 1 Jockey Club (the first day of the seventh lunar month)

Popular in Hongyuan County and other places. It is held on the first day of the seventh lunar month every year for one day. Horse racing is a favorite activity of Tibetan people. It is not only a place for farmers and herdsmen to gather and exchange production experience in their leisure time, but also a display of people in Xizang spirit. Horse racing is almost indispensable in all Tibetan festivals circulated among the people. Horse racing not only appears in festivals in the form of motif, but more importantly, Tibetan people have formed such a national traditional "horse racing festival" based on their strong belief in horses, which has a long history. By then, the Tibetan people in the county and nearby areas will wear traditional national costumes and go to the racecourse from all directions to carry out various forms of horse racing activities. There are fast team races, relay races, horse racing archery performances and horse racing skills, which are very lively. After the horse race, people exchange local products with each other.

12, Bathing Festival (July 6th to 12 in Tibetan calendar, lasting 7 days)

Bathing Festival, known in Tibetan as "Gama Riji" (bathing), is a unique festival of Tibetan people, with a history of at least 700 to 800 years in Tibet. Buddhism believes that the water in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has eight advantages, namely, sweet, cool, soft, light, clear and tasteless. Seven drinks don't hurt the throat, and eight drinks don't hurt the abdomen. Therefore, July is called the best time to take a bath. It was late summer and early autumn. The sun is shining in Wan Li, and the sky is clear. not have

Whether in cities, rural areas or pastoral areas, men, women and children come to the river to celebrate the annual bathing festival. At that time, Tibetan people, with tents, butter tea, highland barley wine, Ciba and other foods, will come to Lhasa River and Yarlung Zangbo River one after another, and come to thousands of rivers and lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to compete for water and enjoy playing in the water. They set up a tent in the shade of the beach lawn, surrounded the tent and laid a card mat. Old people wash their hair and brush their bodies by the river, young people bathe and swim in the river, and children play in the water. At this time, women have no scruples about taking a bath, washing their bodies and washing the clothes of the whole family.

During the break, the family sat around the tent and tasted the fragrant highland barley wine and fragrant butter tea. There were bursts of laughter and laughter from time to time in the tent. During the seven-day bathing festival, people not only come to the river to bathe every day, but also clean all the bedding at home. Therefore, the Bathing Festival is not only a traditional festival loved by Tibetan people, but also the most thorough and mass health activity every year.

13, Guo Wang Festival (autumn harvest period, lasting one to three days)

Guowang Festival has a history of 1500 years, and it is a traditional festival in people in Xizang that longs for a bumper harvest. "Guo Wang" is a transliteration in Tibetan, which means field and land, and "Guo" means turning around, which means "going around the field". In the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River and the rural areas along the Lhasa River, the "fruit watching" festival is very popular, and there are festivals in other places, but the names of the festivals are different. Lahu and Dingri are called "Ji Ya", that is, comfortable summer days; Bubala Snow Mountain is surrounded by semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas, known as "Bangsang", that is, auspicious grassland. It's about the same time, before the crops are yellow and ready to open the sickle. Before liberation, Tibetans celebrated the Fruit Festival before the arrival of the "bird king"-the season when geese flew south. Guowang Festival is an important cultural phenomenon of Tibetan people, and its origin, ceremony, region or gender characteristics are rich and colorful. ?

According to legend, as early as the end of the 5th century, King Bud Gong Jian of Tibet asked religious leaders for advice to ensure a bumper harvest. The leader ordered the farmers to circle around the fields, with incense burners and banners as the leaders, while our leader held sticks wrapped around Hada and the sheep's right leg as the guide. After leading the villagers with highland barley ears or wheat ears around the fields several times, they planted all kinds of ears of grain in granaries and shrines, praying for good weather and abundant crops.

The fruit festival lasts for one to three days and is held on auspicious days before the autumn harvest. On this day every year, Tibetan people wear festive costumes, some carry colorful flags, some carry harvest towers made of highland barley and wheat ears, and the harvest towers are tied with white "Hada", holding slogans, some beat gongs and drums, sing songs and sing Tibetan operas, and some carry portraits of Chairman Mao around the field for a week. After the circle, people carry tents and highland barley wine, while talking about the past and present, and some indulge in drinking. The commercial department also organizes material exchanges, supplies commodities with ethnic characteristics and daily necessities, and purchases local products. After the fruit festival, the intense autumn harvest sowing began.

14, Russian Happy Festival (the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month)

As a traditional Tibetan festival, it is popular in Muli County. This festival falls on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month every year. It is said that the ancient Muli area was very rich, and eight Tibetan branches in Tibet and Yunnan migrated and lived all the way. The day of settlement is the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and people get together to sing and dance and have fun. In the future, commemorative activities will be held on this day every year, which will be passed down from generation to generation and become a fixed festival. On the day before the festival, families are busy preparing rich food. On the festival day, the whole family sat together and drank a toast. According to custom, cats and dogs should have a full meal. If they eat meat first, it indicates good weather and a bumper harvest in agriculture and animal husbandry in the coming year. At night. People gathered around piles of bonfires. Yes, singing folk songs and dancing.