Tibetan New Year Holiday in 2022

According to the notice of Lhasa Municipal People's Government, the Tibetan New Year holiday in 2022 will last for 7 days. Namely: the holiday will be held from March 2 to March 8, 2022. Go to work on February 26th (Saturday) and March13rd (Sunday).

During the Tibetan calendar year, it was a traditional folk activity popular in Lhasa, Xizang Autonomous Region, and it was one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

The Tibetan calendar year is a traditional festival for the Tibetan people, which is roughly the same as the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. The Tibetan calendar is calculated according to the Tibetan calendar. Tibetan calendar 1 month 1 day to 15 day, lasting 15 days. Because the whole people believe in Buddhism, the festival activities are filled with a strong religious atmosphere, and it is a national festival to entertain the gods and the people, celebrate and pray.

The cultural characteristics of different places in the Tibetan calendar year are different. From the last mid-January of the old year in Lhasa, people began to make preparations for eating, wearing, playing and using in the New Year. Tibetan calendar year is a festival created by Tibetan people in the process of labor and production, and it is the best time for relatives and friends to get together in a year. It is the slack season at the turn of winter and spring, which places people's joy in autumn harvest and confidence in spring ploughing, and also expresses the diligent and brave Tibetan people's pursuit and yearning for the new year and the new year. Its content and form are full of rich ethnic and religious colors, and it is the epitome of the whole Tibetan cultural customs.