Guo Wang Festival is a traditional festival in which country?

Guowang Festival is a traditional festival in Xizang Autonomous Region, China. Fruit Festival is very popular in Tibet, southwest of China. Due to its unique geographical location and climatic environment, it has formed a unique humanistic custom and created a unique folk art culture. It embodies the national spirit and social life of the Tibetan people and has distinctive folk characteristics.

Guo Wang Festival is Guo Wang Festival. "Wang" refers to crops, which are called "Wangka" or "Xingka" in Tibetan, and "Fruit" means circle, that is, circling around promising crops. Celebrating the harvest is a folk custom of Tibetan farmers. It was first popular in the Yarlung Zangbo River basin, and then widely distributed in agricultural and forest areas in Tibet, such as Lhasa, Shannan, Shigatse, Linzhi, Qamdo and Ali. There is no fixed date for the fruit festival, which is usually held when the grain is ripe.

Fruit Festival is an activity with a whole set of religious sacrificial ceremonies. During the festival, local Tibetans put on costumes, carried a "harvest tower" made of green pears and wheat ears, and carried slogans and colorful flags in the fields. After the transfer, there will be horse racing, performances, songs and dances and other cultural and sports activities. On the morning of the first fruit festival, the villagers were wearing new clothes, carrying lunch boxes and carrying butter tea and highland barley wine, ready to participate in the parade.

Before the parade, the villagers began to turn to temples, simmer mulberry (burn incense) and hold a series of religious ceremonies in the order of villages. The square in front of the temple looks solemn and lively. At this time, there will be villagers carrying highland barley wine and toasting people who have transferred to the fields one by one to show their good wishes and make the atmosphere look like the heroic soldiers before going out to war.

At the beginning of the parade, an honor guard composed of lamas and old peasants held high the Buddha statue, held scriptures and blew the Buddha's name, thanking God for bringing people a good year with good weather. At the end of the procession were eight Tibetan men dressed in costumes, wearing red hats and holding bows and arrows. Whenever they walk, they stop to sing and dance.

Near dusk, the team that turned over the fields returned to the village and the team had to turn around the village. On the rooftops of people on the road, there will be an old lady holding Baba in one hand and "Dada" (auspicious arrow) in the other, constantly shaking in the direction of changing teams, indicating that she is lucky.

Around the village, mass cultural and sports activities are held in the square, including Tibetan opera, song and dance, horse racing, archery, tug of war, etc., and they compete with each other for skills. Finally, the team returned to the starting point, next to the village temple, and held the last religious ceremony. At that time, gongs and drums were loud, and the one-day fruit festival parade came to an end.