The Tibetan New Year is a traditional Tibetan festival. It begins on the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar every year and lasts from three to five days. In early December of the Tibetan calendar, people will begin to prepare for the New Year's goods, families in the water basin to soak barley seeds, cultivate seedlings. "There are many different kinds of oleomargarine. Close to the end of the year, each family should prepare a colorful drawings of the rectangular bamboo Suqima grains bucket, bucket filled with ghee mixed with tsampa, fried wheat grains, ginseng fruit and other foodstuffs, above the depiction of the green tree spikes, cockles and flowers and ghee colorful flower plate. And prepare a colorful ghee shaped sheep's head. All of this has to celebrate the harvest, wishing for the coming year, the wind and rain, people and animals flourish meaning. New Year's Eve two days before the house inside and outside for cleaning, set up a new card mat, paste new year's paintings. Twenty-nine before dinner in the center of the stove room wall, with dry flour sprinkled with "eight auspicious micro". On the main door with lime powder painted with symbols of eternal good luck "" symbols, indicating longevity, food abundance, years of peace. On the evening of New Year's Eve, each family sets up various kinds of food in front of the Buddha statue, and in order to have sufficient and abundant food during the festival, the whole family is busy until late at night on this evening. For dinner on this day, each family eats dough tuba (kutu). In the dough tuba specially made a few wrapped with stone, chili, charcoal, wool and other sandwich different dough, each kind of sandwich has a kind of saying, stone prediction heart hard, charcoal prediction heart black, chili prediction mouth like a knife, wool shows that the heart is soft. Eat these sandwiches of people, are spit out to cause laughter, to help the New Year's Eve. This is a kind of food and entertainment activities, no matter who ate what, must be spit out, which often cause laughter, adding to the festive atmosphere of joy.
To the first day, the green seedlings, oil 馃zi, sheep's head, grains bucket, etc. in the Buddha's niche on the coffee table, wishing for a new year of life and food abundance. On the first day of the new year before dawn, the housewife from the river back to the "auspicious water", and then wake up the family, according to the generation row position sitting, the elders brought to the grains bucket each person first grab a few grains, thrown to the sky, said the sacrifice to the gods, and then in turn grab a little bit of sent into the mouth. Thereafter, the elders in order to wish "Zaxi Dele" (good luck), the latter back to congratulate "Zaxi Dele Pangsongtso" (good luck, merit and success). After the ceremony, they eat cereal tuba and ghee boiled ginseng fruit, followed by mutual barley wine. The first day of the general ban on sweeping, are not allowed to say unlucky words, and do not visit each other as guests.
The second day of the family and friends to congratulate each other on the New Year's Eve, and give each other Hada. Men, women and children are dressed in the program dress, meet each other "Zahidler", "happy holidays", this activity lasts three or five days. During the Tibetan New Year, in the square or on the open grass, everyone in a circle to dance potshuang dance, string dance, in the six-stringed zither, cymbals, gongs and other musical instruments, hand in hand, person by person, step on the ground for the festival, singing and children are burning firecrackers, the whole region immersed in joy, festive and peaceful atmosphere of the festival. In the towns and villages, Tibetan opera is sung, and potshoos and string dances are performed. In pastoral areas, herdsmen light bonfires and sing and dance all night long. Folk also jousting, throwing, tug-of-war, horse racing, archery and other activities.