When the Tibetan people living on the grasslands celebrate the annual New Year's Eve, every household has a unique courtyard pillar with poles tied to the top and filled with heavy highland barley. ear. On New Year's Eve, the dust is dusted and the tassel branches are decorated. Some people put a band of red paper on them, and some people decorate them with colored paper to make the tassels sparkle. The Buddhist niche or water purification cup on the altar table is placed very long, and the butter lamp illuminates the whole room.
On the dusk of New Year’s Eve, the old people who have lived a long and bumpy life have their own unique ideas. They follow the traditional ritual: dip their fingers in fried noodles and porridge, and write "Tashi Tashi" on the white wall. "Dele" in big words. They are so pious that they always recite the Liu'an Ming Sutra mantra several times every time. In the dots that make up each word, their light of hope is condensed, praying for "good luck" in the new year.
On New Year’s Eve, girls’ hearts are the most restless. In their boiling hearts, the symbolic word "kǎqie" rolled. "Kache" means morning star water. Morning Star Water refers to the first bucket of water brought back from New Year's Eve to the first day of the Lunar New Year. Legend has it that Morning Star Water is the most auspicious water in the world. It can consecrate gods, cleanse the body, wash away all dirt and ominousness, and bring light and happiness to people. At twelve o'clock in the night, the radiant girls stick three pieces of butter on the edge of the "shao'er (big bucket)" carrying water, and insert three lit incense sticks in accordance with the national custom. Embracing Sangqie made of cypress and white fragrant green, covered with stars, rushing to carry the morning star water. It is customary to believe that the first girl to go to the riverside to light sangchi and ladle out the morning star water is the luckiest person.
Night, the dusk is heavy. Stars, shining brightly. The girls who came one after another broke the silence of the long night by the river. Their singing, laughter, the sound of wearing rings and the thumping, thumping, thumping footsteps formed a Spring Festival chorus. The girls carried Morning Star Water home, poured some of it into a clean basin, and then poured a little milk into it. The whole family washed it in order of men first, then women. "One water cleanses all." Everything old is gone forever with the cleansing of Morning Star Water. What will usher in will be a new year, new things, and new auspiciousness.
From the first to the third day of the lunar month, we wish each other happy New Year. Guests come and go, horses neigh and bells ring. Every evening, the old people invite artists to tell "The Biography of King Gesar" and listen to the heroic stories of Gesar's battles in the north and south, and the subjugation of demons all night long. Young men and women danced "Guozhuang" and "Yi" all night long, watched comedy shows, and celebrated the New Year.
In addition, Tibetans are also in Qinghai!