The formation of Tibetan festivals can be traced back to a distant historical period, and in the process of long-term development, the ideological and aesthetic connotations of the Tibetan people have resulted in their own unique and varied festival culture system. Due to the profound influence of Buddhism on the Tibetans, the festival culture of the Tibetans has a strong religious color.
1, the first month of the Tibetan calendar, is the month with the most festivals and the grandest, in which festivals are celebrated almost every day. Tibetan festivals are the most important manifestation of Tibetan culture. Tibetan Buddhism has a history of more than 1,300 years in Tibet, China, and has become a part of the life of the Tibetan people. Tibetan festivals have a strong religious color due to its profound influence, and some of them have evolved into purely religious festivals.
2, Snowdon Festival, is one of the important festivals of the Tibetan people in Tibet, held every year on the first day of July Tibetan celebrations, a period of four or five days. Snow is a Tibetan translator, meaning "yogurt feast", so Snow Festival will be interpreted as drinking yogurt festival. According to the Tibetan Buddhism Gelukpa (yellow religion) regulations, the annual Tibetan calendar June 15 to July 30 for the period of prohibition, the size of the temple lamas are not allowed to go out, so as not to step on the death of small insects, to be released on July 30th after the ban can go down the mountain. Lama down the mountain, farmers and herdsmen take out yogurt dedication, the formation of the Snowdon Festival.
3, the big Buddha worship festival, is Tibet's Rikaze monks and laypeople every year in the Tibetan calendar in the fifth month of the Zashilunbu Temple held in the big Buddha worship festival. Zashilunbu (Tibetan translation "auspicious Sumeru mountain") temple, lamaism Gelukpa (yellow religion) the fourth largest temple. In Tibet Rikaze Nisei Ri mountain, for the successive Panchen's residence.
4, prayer festival is the most solemn Tibetan region is both large-scale religious activities, but also folk festival activities, the Tibetan language called "morangchebo". In the state Tibetan area, there are two kinds of this kind of event, one is the prayer festival of Gelug sect; one is the original Tibetan religion, the prayer festival of Benpo religion, the two prayer festival is the same, held twice a year, once in the lunar calendar June 15, once in the lunar calendar, the first day of the first month of the first to the third day of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month. The prayer festival in the first month of the lunar calendar is more grand than the prayer festival in the summer. The state also has temples and followers of the Bembo religion, who to this day retain strong customs of the original religion. People who come to participate in the festival have to go around the small western sky, the holy mountain behind the Ga Mi Temple, on the thirteenth or fourteenth day of the first month. New Year's Day 15 early in the morning, the temple monks and lamas, wearing a new robe, by the temple band blowing the big and small brass horn, followed by the whole temple monks gathered in the scripture hall chanting, and by the living Buddha to arrange the day each person's responsibility. Nearly 12 o'clock, the monks came forward to hajj all over the incense and audience, perform "jumping god" program (also known as visit fairy dance), jumping god content both Tibetan and Chinese unity in the history of the story, but also according to the Benpo religion classic story and dance.
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The Tibetan people first originated as an agricultural tribe in the central region of the Yarlung Tsangpo River basin. According to archaeological discoveries, as early as 4,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Tibetan people lived and prospered in the Yarlung Tsangpo River basin. According to Chinese historical records, the Tibetans belonged to a branch of the Western Qiang people during the two Han dynasties. The ancestors of the Tibetans, like many ancestors who experienced the Stone Age, first went through the stage of group gathering and hunting life, and gradually learned rearing and farming. The Tibetan ancestors in the Yalong area on the south bank of the Yarlung River were later divided into six tribes, namely the Six Yak Tribes. In the 6th century AD, the chief of the Yalong tribe became the leader of the tribal alliance, called the king (Tibetan phonetics "Zangpo").
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