Picking flowers Festival Nanping County Boyu around the Tibetan traditional festival. Held every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the festival period of two days. Legend has it that a long time ago, Boyu was a deserted mountain valley, people to collect and hunt for a living, to leaves and animal skins to make clothes. One day, from afar came a girl called Lianzhi, she is beautiful and kind, dexterous, taught the local people to open up the land and planting and weaving sewing, but also pick the lily for people to cure. One year, on the fifth day of May, Lianzhi went up the mountain to pick flowers and was swept down the cliff by the nickel wind and died. People were so sad that they went up the mountain to pick flowers on that day to honor her. Over time, the Flower Picking Festival was formed.
Yellow Tibetan New Year's Day is the most important festival of the Tibetan people, to dress in costume to pay homage to each other, and to the monastery pilgrimage to pray for blessings. On the first day of the first month of the fifteenth, the major monasteries held puja, into the night, each family lit ghee lamps and lanterns, in Qinghai Tal and Lhasa Da Zhao Temple and other temples, lamas made of ghee with ghee ghee flowers, bright colors, sculpture exquisite, near and far. April 15, is said to be Shakyamuni Buddha and Princess Wencheng to the day of Tibet, all over the religious activities held to commemorate. In July, the grain harvest is expected, farmers carrying the scrolls around the field, said Wang Guo Festival, wishing the year a good harvest Tibetan New Year
Tibetan people called the New Year for the "Losa". The Tibetan calendar year in ancient times had to wheat ripe for the first year or wheat harvest for the first year, is in the summer and fall. According to records, before 100 B.C., the Tibetans have their own calendar, which is based on the moon's cycle to calculate the day, month and year. After a few hundred years, the Bengists (the original religion of Tibet) were able to accurately calculate the time of the winter solstice, and used it as the beginning of the year, forming a festival and various rituals. In the 7th century A.D., two princesses of the Tang Dynasty, Wencheng and Jincheng, entered Tibet successively for marriage and alliance, bringing the calendar of the mainland. Since then, the Tibetan calendar and the Chinese calendar, the Indian calendar combined, to the Yuan Dynasty when the formation of the Heavenly Stem, Earthly Branches, the five elements into one unique calendar. Around the thirteenth century, the Sakya Dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty set the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar as the beginning of the new year, which has been inherited to the present day.
Tibetan festivals are numerous, among which the Tibetan New Year is the most solemn and of national significance. The Tibetan New Year is equivalent to the Chinese New Year and is the biggest festival of the year. From the middle of December of the Tibetan calendar, people prepare for the New Year to eat, wear and use the festival supplies. Thousands of farmers and herdsmen flock to Lhasa to buy all kinds of New Year's goods. This is the busiest season of the year in Lhasa.
The Tibetan New Year begins on December 29 of the Tibetan calendar. In the evening, families get together to eat "Gutu" (dough and meat porridge), as a way of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and seeking peace and happiness. The family ate in the laughter of nine "Gutu" after holding torches, firecrackers, shouting "out", walk to the crossroads to pray for good luck in the coming year.