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The Tibetan calendar (Tibetan: ? ) refers to the traditional calendar of the Tibetan people in China.
Early Tibetan calendar: Historical records show that before 1000 BC, the Tibetans had their own calendar, which projected the day, month, and year based on the moon's fullness and shortness.
After a few hundred years, the Yonchung Phenylists (the original religion of Tibet) were able to accurately calculate the time of the winter solstice, and used it as the beginning of the year to form festivals and various rituals. Many of the customs and lifestyles of the modern Tibetans have been handed down from the ancient Elephant and Castle era.
The Tubo period began in the 7th century A.D., when two princesses from the Tang Dynasty, Wencheng and Jincheng, entered Tibet in succession to form a marriage alliance, bringing with them the calendar of the mainland. In the 11th century, the Minzhulin Calendar was published, and in 1206 the Tibetan calendar was called the Sakya Calendar.
Late Tibetan Calendar: The Wheel of Time Calendar, started in 1027, has been popular in Tibet for more than a thousand years, derived from the astronomical knowledge in the Wheel of Time Sutra. To round the very year, 60 years for a week, with the yin and yang five elements and the zodiac chronology, which is roughly the same as the mainland lunar calendar's 60 jiazi system, for example, the 2016 lunar year of the C Shen year in the Wheel of Time Calendar known as the Year of the Fire Monkey;
But the lunar calendar of the Wheel of Time Calendar to the full moon for the fifteenth day of the month, the first day of the first year and the mainland's lunar calendar may be the same day or difference of a day, and the leap month is set up differently, with leap months of a particular year of the two kinds of the first day of the first day of the month differs by One month or one month plus one day. Existing historical evidence of the Tibetan calendar, the earliest appeared in the 13th century (Yuan Dynasty), to the 19th century, the Tibetan calendar has been perfected.
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The Tibetan calendar year is based on the Tibetan calendar and is different every year. It is usually between one day and one month later than the lunar calendar.
Before and after the Tibetan New Year, you can find a wide variety of items that only appear in the Tibetan New Year in the markets from in front of the Little Zhao Monastery to the Chongsaikang. The Lhasa region is an agricultural area, and the details of the festival inevitably pay homage to the land.
From the beginning of the Tibetan calendar in early December, before almost every family began to soak barley seeds in water pots, slowly growing into seedlings, until the first day of the Tibetan calendar, green seedlings about one or two inches high, placed in front of the Buddha's niche, expect the next year's grain harvest. In the Tibetan New Year's Eve market there are many stalls specializing in the sale of seedlings, just by the water basin replaced by the cultivation of soil.
The Tibetan calendar year every family will not be less Kasai - with ghee and white flour deep-fried a kind of offerings, "bitter" shaped like an ear, "Naxia" is a long strip-shaped, "Not Lu" is disk-shaped, large twist-shaped named "Mudong".
Tibetan New Year's goods in the most common and the most regional characteristics of the "bamboo Suqi Ma", also known as "Chema", is a wooden Tibetan-style grains bucket, in the Tibetan New Year or the arrival of a guest, the woman will be holding the Chema stand at the door to meet.
Chema's shape is very similar to the old Han Chinese bucket, wide on the outside of the next narrow painted with a variety of auspicious designs, filled with ghee mixed with tsampa, fried wheat and ginseng fruit and so on, inserted in the top of the barley cob, cocklebur flowers and ghee made of colorful flower plate, Tibetan called "Zizhuo";
also ready to prepare a colorful Ghee flowers molded sheep's head (Lu over), now on the market in Chongsaikang see the most is made of plaster, is also considered to be with the times.
The Tibetan calendar year to the local family to visit, the barley or tsampa in the cutter with the right hand to the sky to throw three times, while throwing while saying the auspicious words: Zaji Delepangsongtso ......
The Tibetan calendar year before the Lhasa gathered pilgrimage to the people from all regions, from their Tibetan clothing can be judged from where they come from.
In front of the gate of the Da Zhao Temple can always be encountered from thousands of miles to knock the long head of the same body to come to the pilgrims, most of them are a village of people in a collective group, they are dusty and full of joy, forehead right in the middle of a thick callus, lined up on the square, senior monks or friends and relatives for each person to send the hatha.
Tradition is still reverently adhered to in Lhasa homes, and exorcism of ghosts on New Year's Eve is essential.
After dinner, each person will make a ball of tsampa and put it on his eyes, forehead, lapel, waist and legs to wipe and roll it, and then blow on the tsampa ball to get rid of bad luck and take away diseases. These tsampa balls are finally placed in a container, which is also made of wheat straw tied in the shape of a cross, burnt to carbon cow dung, these are the main components of the "exorcism" ceremony.
The master uses a bundle of straw tied to the upper end of a wooden stick to make a straw handle that is lit when darkness falls, circles the house and says "come out, come out," and then the whole family escorts the "ghost" on its way. Out of the house, at the crossroads of the grass handle, containers containing tsampa dough thrown into the fire, so that all the bad luck and burn away.
The reason for choosing the crossroads in the village is so that the "ghosts" can get lost and not find their way home. According to Tibetan tradition, one should not look back on the way home, otherwise the ghosts will be lured home again.
In the evening of this day, piles of smoke can be seen at many intersections, especially around Patlang Street.
There are many festivals in Lhasa, and it feels like Lhasa is having a festival every now and then, but the solemnity and atmosphere of the Tibetan New Year is still different, and it's also like the Spring Festival in the mainland, where the streets are quiet on the 30th day of the New Year, and the homes are bustling with activity.
On the first day of the Tibetan calendar, it is usually a pilgrimage to the Potala Palace, the Dazhao Monastery, the Drepung Monastery and the Sera Monastery to pray. Just after dawn, the Potala Palace and Dazhao Temple has been lined up in front of the people holding ghee and hatha, and the knowledgeable management personnel can always be seen from the crowd of people who are tourists: you, go to buy tickets.
This day of Lop Nor is free, but there are very few locals. Because in the Tibetan tradition of the first day of the day in addition to go on pilgrimage, is not going out to gather, visit each other. It is only from the second day that relatives and friends begin to pay their respects to each other, which lasts for three to five days.
Early in the morning on the second day of the month, it is the day when people go back to their hometowns. On this day, many people rush back to the village where they were born, where they simmer and pray, and the whole village gathers together to drink wine and dance in pots and pans, and the revelry of the Tibetan New Year is only truly restored in the countryside.
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