Lhasa is located in the Tibetan plateau, the climate of the Tibetan plateau are characterized by a big difference in temperature between day and night throughout the year, the temperature is not low during the day after the sun comes out, the midday is hotter, sunbathing is very comfortable, the sun goes down after the temperature is immediately low.
Lhasa is more than 3,800 meters above sea level, the air is thin, the light time is long, the sky is extraordinarily clear, after the sun goes down, the sky is still very bright for some time. However, in practice, in order to try to synchronize with the mainland, work and rest time is just one hour later than the mainland (one and a half hours later in winter).
Now there is not much snow in Lhasa in winter, and there are more sunny days. You can often see the stars at night in winter.
Festivals: Snowdon Festival 8.12-8.18 (June 30th in the Tibetan calendar - the end of June is one of the biggest festivals in Lhasa and also in Tibet)
Saga Dawa Festival (April 15th in the Tibetan calendar is the most distinctive festival in Lhasa in the spring)
Tibetan New Year (the grandest festival in Tibet, which is very close in time to the Chinese New Year, sometimes the the same day.)
The determination of the Tibetan New Year is closely related to the use of the Tibetan calendar, the official use of which began more than nine hundred and fifty years ago, in the year of the Dinmao of the Lunar Calendar (1027 A.D.). Since then, the use of the Tibetan calendar has been inherited.
The Tibetan people make preparations for the New Year from the twelfth month of the Tibetan calendar, when families begin to soak barley seeds in pots, and on the evening of New Year's Eve, families set up all kinds of food in front of the statue of the Buddha, and in order to make sure that there is sufficient and abundant food during the festival, on the evening of the day, the whole family is also busy until late at night. The first day of the Lunar New Year, for the first day of the Tibetan New Year, the first thing they do, is that each family sent people to the river to carry back the first bucket of water in the New Year - auspicious water, from the beginning of the second year, friends and relatives visit each other, pay their respects and congratulations, this activity lasts for three or five days, during the Tibetan New Year, in the plaza or the open grass, everyone in a circle to jump potshooso dance, String dance, in the six-stringed zither, cymbals, gongs and other musical instruments under the accompaniment, hand in hand, person by person, step on the ground for the festival, singing and, children are burning firecrackers, the whole region immersed in the joyful, celebratory, peaceful atmosphere of the festival.
Ghee Lantern Festival
The 15th day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, is also the last day of the Chuanzhao great puja, is the Tibetan people's large-scale, colorful ghee Lantern Festival. During the day, people to the temple prayers; night, Lhasa Barkhor Street ghee lanterns will be held, full of all kinds of street set up a variety of flower racks, filled with a colorful variety of gods and goddesses, characters, birds and animals and flowers and trees image, and puppet shows. After the lanterns are lit, it is like a group of stars landing, twinkling, a brilliant. Officials and people from all over Tibet also came to see the lanterns. At night, the farmers in the suburbs sing and dance, song contest, sometimes extended for a few days before the end, this is the most joyful festival in Lhasa.
Travel in Lhasa does not need to participate in the travel agency, because Lhasa tourist attractions are mainly the Potala Palace, Potala Palace Square, Da Zhao Temple, Barkhor Street must go. Walking Street just in front of the Da Zhao Temple, many other famous temples, there is no need to one by one all stroll through, because the Tibetan Buddhist temples are basically the same. Unless you are a Buddhist believer. The food there is more expensive, especially the green vegetables are very expensive. The hotels are okay, there are 80 RMB a day private near standard rooms right near the Potala Palace Square. There is nothing too much to see in Lhasa, but getting to Lhasa is a big attraction. Lhasa's sky, earth, clouds, air, etc. are not seen in other places. Especially fresh. The police in Lhasa have the best attitude and ask questions. Oxygenating drugs can be bought in all stores in Lhasa. A little farther away you can see Namucuo, in winter the ice and snow.
It is said that the topography of Lhasa is like a supine witch, so Princess Wencheng chose the site of the Da Zhao Temple built in the heart of the witch to suppress the witch. (Da Zhao Temple was originally built for the Nepalese Princess Chizun, 'small Zhao Temple was originally built for the Princess of Wencheng, so the main gate of the Da Zhao Temple to the west, to the hometown of the Princess of Chizun, the main gate of the small Zhao Temple to the east, to the hometown of the Princess of Wencheng,' but the site legend of the Princess of Chizun to ask for Princess Wencheng's opinion, so it is said. But now the great Zhao Temple enshrined in the Princess of Wencheng brought the 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni, the small Zhao Temple enshrined in the Princess of Chi Zun brought the 8-year-old statue of Sakyamuni, this is because later in the Tang Dynasty on the influence of the Tubo greatly exceeded Nepal, the Tubo's administration to their enshrinement on the other side of the coin. You write novels, this can be a reference for you.