The Origin of the Wanshan Festival
The Wanshan Festival, known as the Xianglang Festival in Tibetan, is the continuation and development of the custom of hundreds of monks of Labrang Monastery going out to the field to collect firewood at a specific time each year in the 49th year of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty (1710 A.D.). and development. The Longshan Festival is held in the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. In Tibetan, the word "Langshan" means "to collect firewood. Once upon a time, monks in the mountainous areas after logging, boredom, they will arrange a festival to play in the mountains, and gradually spread into the folk, evolved into today's Tibetan Wave Mountain Festival.
The content of the Longshan Festival
As the ancestors of the Tibetans are nomadic life, people have a deep weary love and emotion for the grassland. Every year in the middle of June of the lunar calendar, is the grasslands of the mountain green flowers colorful sheep fat, cattle strong the best time, people will be in the form of a joyful trekking wave mountain to remember their ancestors. Gansu Gannan Tibetan area, every lunar June, the climate is mild, the sun shines brightly, between the agricultural work, the family packaged pots and pans cooking utensils, food and drink items, the whole family, young and old, to the wild hillside, meadow, riverside location, pitching a tent, dressed up, will eat, drink, singing and dancing.
Wanshan Festival, Gannan State affairs, business units are to take a week off to celebrate the Wanshan Festival. Tibetan people in accordance with traditional customs, a few families meet, or tribes, villages as a unit, collectively with tents, pots and pans, food and barley wine, in the grasslands to spend more than a dozen days of wild life.