Buddhist taboo on killing, so every year from June 15 to July 30 of the Tibetan calendar, the lamas are in the monastery closed retreat, so as not to harm the grass and mosquitoes, known as the "Yaler", which means "summer peace! ".
Believers will be made of milk yogurt, filial piety Lama living Buddha, in order to solve the shortage of food in the monastery. 11th century, Tibetan Buddhism after the macro-period of the ancestor of the Atisha late settlement *** twenty kilometers south-west of the Nie Dangping Ye.
He loved yogurt. During the summer settlement, the people brought him yogurt, and he made this empowerment: in the house of anyone who offers yogurt, the livestock will be free from contagious diseases and will not stray, and the wild animals will not eat it.
In 1642, the yellow religion in power, the fifth *** ascended to the throne of the Dharma King, he was stationed in Drepung Monastery, Gandanpozhang Palace, became the center of the dynasty's political, religious and cultural centers. Every year Tibetan June 30, thousands of people flocked into the monastery, to the fifth *** and Drepung Monastery monks offer yogurt, requesting the top of the blessing to give longevity, harvest, after death, not to hell's blessing.
Nearby Tibetan drama team, wild yak dance team also rushed to perform, condolences, from then on, it will be formed into a fixed festival, called "Snowdon Festival". On this day, the fifth *** to come out to see the Tibetan opera, a year a change in the iron rod lama also in this day for the handover procedures.
The Fifth *** moved to the Potala Palace, Snowdon Festival activities are also held in the Potala Palace, "air theater" Deyang Xia. Seventh *** late in life suffering from a variety of diseases, physicians recommended that he went to the western suburbs of the Lopblingka (baby garden) bath, with running water to nourish the body.
Therefore, the main venue of the Snowdon Festival is also transferred to the Lopblingka. Snowdon Festival staged Tibetan opera, some people also called Snowdon Festival Tibetan opera festival.
On the first day of the seventh month of the Tibetan calendar, the Lhublinka Snowdon Festival kicked off with a wide range of plays, and everyone dressed in festive costumes, wearing all the jewelry they could, bringing yogurt and all kinds of food and drink, and enjoying the wonderful performances.
2. What kind of festival is the Snowdon Festival
*** Channel *** June 29 (Xinhua) -- Although there is still some time before the Snowdon Festival opens on August 23, farmers and herdsmen from all over the *** have started to come to the *** one after another, and the relevant departments of the city of *** have started to actively plan for the first Snowdon Festival after the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
"Snowdon" originally means "yogurt feast", Snowdon Festival has become a *** folk festival has more than 300 years of history. This festival was initially just monks and the people *** enjoy the beauty of early fall and harvest food happy gathering, later, the monastery's grand show Buddha ceremony became the beginning of the festival, Tibetan opera and other folk cultural activities have become the main character of the festival, the Snowdon Festival has a show Buddha Festival, Tibetan opera festival, etc., the degree of enthusiasm is second only to the Tibetan New Year.
Recently, the Snowdon Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. During the festival, people will go to the *** suburb to the outskirts of the countryside, singing and dancing, drinking barley wine and eating yogurt.
Lublinka Park is especially crowded, *** Tibetan opera troupes from all over the world also converge here, for several days of Tibetan opera performances, will also be held in the countryside bonfire party.
3. Tibetan Snow Festival
The Tibetan Opera Festival, also known as the Snow Festival, is one of the traditional festivals of the ***, in Tibetan, "snow" is the meaning of the acid ***, "Dun" is "feast", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat", "eat". ", "eat" means, Snow Festival according to the Tibetan interpretation is to eat acid *** festival.
Later, the activities of the Snowdon Festival gradually evolved into a Tibetan opera will be performed, so some people also call it Tibetan opera festival. This festival is not only *** there, in Shigatse called "color wood Qinbo", the time is later than ***, the scale is smaller than ***.
Snowdon Festival in the seventeenth century is a purely religious festivals, according to the provisions of the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa, the annual Tibetan June 15 to 30 for the period of the ban, the whole of Tibet, the size of the monastery monks and nuns are not allowed to go out to avoid stepping on the death of the little insects, they have to perform three things in the temple: that is, the long net, the summer peace until the solution of the system. To the Tibetan calendar July 1, the day of the ban, they have to go down the mountain, this time farmers and herdsmen to come up with a ready acid *** dedication.
This is the origin of the Snowdon Festival. To the second half of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Qing Dynasty Emperor enthroned the fifth *** Wang A Luo Sang Gyatso and the fifth Banchen Luo Sang Yixi, given to the gold book, the gold seal, so that *** "unity of Church and State" system has been strengthened, the Snowdon Festival is richer in content, and has begun to perform the Tibetan opera, and the formation of a fixed Snowdon Festival.
According to records, participate in the Snowdon Festival performances are Zazhi Xueba, very big bar, Longerba, Xiangba, Juemulong, Ta Zhong, Lunzhugang, Lang Zewa, Bintongba, if pinch the Ga, Xirong Zhongzi, Gonbudzhuo Ba *** twelve Tibetan theater groups. So this national traditional festival with more than three hundred years of history, in a sense can be said to be a Tibetan opera festival.
Tibetan opera infiltrated into the initial stage of the Snowdon Festival, is the beginning of the combination of religious and recreational activities, but the scope is still limited to the temple. First to the Drepung monastery as the center of activity, so people called "Drepung Snow Festival".
The fifth *** from the Drepung monastery moved to the Potala Palace, June 30 each year after the Snowdon Festival, is always the first in the Drepung Monastery for the Tibetan opera will be performed, the next day to the Potala Palace for the *** performances. In the early eighteenth century after the completion of the Roblin card, become *** summer palace, so the activities of the Snow Festival from the Potala Palace moved to Roblin card, become *** summer palace, and began to allow the public masses into the garden to watch the Tibetan opera.
After this, the activities of the Snowdon Festival is more complete, formed a set of fixed festival ceremonies. Before the democratic reform, the Tibetan calendar June 29 each year, all over the Tibetan opera troupes early to the Potala Palace to the local *** competent Tibetan opera "Ziqia Lekong" reported to the unit of ceremonial performances.
Then rushed to the Lopblingka draw *** salute, return to Drepung Monastery that evening. The next day (June 30) for the Jingsbeng Snowdon Festival, performing a day of Tibetan opera.
July 1, by the ***, Shigatse, poor Ji, Yalong, Durong Deqing, Nimu and other places of the five troupes, six "Zhaxi Xueba" troupe, a yak dance troupe and a "Zorba" dance that is to beat the drums in the Lopblingka A joint performance was held at Lop Nor Kha. July 2 to 5, and then by Jiangzi, Angren, Namling, *** and other four local troupes take turns to perform a day of square theater, Snowdon Festival five days, the Kashgar *** holiday, all officials to focus on the Lop Nor Ghazal with *** to see the play, every day at noon, Kashgar set up a banquet to entertain all the officials, the seat to eat sour ***.
In 1959, *** after the democratic reform, the content of the Snowdon Festival is more rich. During the festival, *** city near the Tibetan people in groups of three to five, young and old together, carrying a variety of colorful baggage, hand-held barley wine barrels, pouring into the Lop Lam Ka.
Festival, in addition to the local *** Tibetan theater group, there are Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces of the Tibetan theater group came to the holy city of *** cut theater. In addition to watching Tibetan opera, people also set up colorful tents under the shade of the trees, on the ground on the card mat, carpet, fruit and wine, dishes and other festive food.
Some talk and drink, some dance and sing, many cultural organizations also come to perform national songs and dances, as a cheer. The industrial sector transported all kinds of materials and festival food to Labrinka, set up stalls and tents, supplying tourists.
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4. Xuedong Festival is the festival of which nationality
Xuedong Festival is one of the traditional religious festivals with a long history of ***, the Tibetan language means to eat acid *** festival, so far has a history of more than 300 years.
Today's Snowdon Festival has gradually evolved into a folk festival based on Tibetan opera performances, also known as the "Tibetan Opera Festival". Drepung Monastery "show Buddha" is the prelude to the Snowdon Festival.
Drepung Monastery lamas from the early hours of the morning to begin to prepare, in the selected auspicious time, thick and heavy sound of the law, three, forty lamas shoulder about twenty meters long giant thangka (Tibetan unique a scroll painting, usually hand-woven in the cloth and silk on the image of religious figures), meandering to the west of the mountain, respectfully fixed the statue of the Buddha has long been set up on the stand to accept the worshipping of believers. A peaceful atmosphere is pervaded by the smoke of the sangha burning at one spot on the hillside.
A small open space in front of the Buddha, crowded with pilgrims and Chinese and foreign tourists, the tannoy broadcasting the temple monks chanting the scriptures together. In the company of his family, every year to see the exhibition of Buddha's old man Solang Dondrub hands together, mouth reciting the words.
He told reporters that: "Drepung Monastery show Buddha is our believers in the heart of a sacred and solemn event, I believe it can bring us good luck." Today's Buddha exhibition also attracted hundreds of cameras and video cameras, many journalists and Chinese and foreign tourists have recorded this grand festival with their lenses.
Zhang Benbiao, a teacher from an art school in Shanghai, finished shooting five or six films in less than half an hour, and he said excitedly of his amateur photography: "Tibetan culture is so amazing, and I hope to lend my hand to this small lens, so that more people can understand and recognize ***." Time has come to noon, in the mountain road leading to the booth, from all over the Tibetan area to come to the masses of believers are still endless.
View Buddha returned to the Tibetan masses in the ridge grass three, five a group, sitting on the ground, take out their own food and wine over the "Linka" (excursion), the crowd is full of laughter. After the "show Buddha" activities, from *** around the Tibetan opera team, but also in the Lop Nor, Longwangtan and other parks for the audience staged a wonderful traditional Tibetan opera, so that today's festivities more colorful.
5. Xuedong Festival is a festival of which place
A Tibetan festival "Xuedong Festival" Every year on the first day of the seventh month of the Tibetan calendar, so far there has been more than 300 years of history, "Xuedong Festival" means "" yogurt banquet festival "," Xuedong Festival "means "". Yogurt Banquet Festival", this is because in accordance with the precepts of Tibetan Buddhism, in the summer mosquitoes grow in June and July, for fear of trampling on the ground of living creatures, the crime of killing, most monasteries prohibit bhikkhus to go out and must be closed to practice for more than a month.
When the practice period is over, the secular people down the mountain out of yogurt and other delicacies, feast down the mountain of monks and nuns, monks and secular celebrations, singing and dancing in the forest card, wild feast, presenting a joyful festival scene. This is the original origin of the Snowdon Festival.
To the second half of the seventeenth century, the content of the Snowdon Festival has become richer, has begun to perform Tibetan opera, the formation of the "Snowdon Festival" has been inherited.
6. A brief introduction to the Tibetan Snow Festival
Snow Festival, Tibetan Opera Festival, also known as the Snow Festival, is one of the traditional festivals of the *** Tibetan, in Tibetan, "snow" is the meaning of the acid ***, "ton" is a "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast", "feast" and so on. "feast", "eat" meaning, Snow Festival according to the Tibetan interpretation is to eat acid *** festival.
Held annually on the first day of the seventh month of the Tibetan calendar, a period of four or five days. Xuedong is a Tibetan translator, meaning "yogurt feast", so Xuedong Festival is interpreted as drinking acid *** of the festival.
Later gradually evolved into a Tibetan opera-based, also known as the "Tibetan Opera Festival". According to the provisions of Tibetan Buddhism Gelugpa (Yellow Religion), the annual Tibetan calendar June 15 to 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 insects, to be released on June 30th after the ban on going down the mountain.
When the lama down the mountain, farmers and herdsmen out of yogurt dedication, the formation of the Snowdon Festival. Later, the activities of the Snowdon Festival gradually evolved into a Tibetan opera will be performed, so some people also call it Tibetan opera festival.
This festival is not only *** there, in Shigatse called "color wood Qinbo", the time is later than ***, the scale is smaller than ***. Xuedong Festival in the seventeenth century is a purely religious festivals, according to the provisions of the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa, the annual Tibetan calendar June 15 to 30 for the forbidden period, the whole of Tibet, the size of the monastery monks and nuns are not allowed to go out, so as not to step on the death of the little insects, they have to perform three things in the temple: that is, the long net, the summer peace until the solution of the system.
To the Tibetan calendar July 1, the day of the ban, they have to go down the mountain, when farmers and herdsmen to come up with a ready acid *** dedication. This is the origin of the Snowdon Festival.
7. Snow Festival origin
Snow Festival, also known as the Tibetan Opera Festival, is one of the traditional festivals of the ***, in Tibetan, "snow" is the meaning of acid ***, "ton" is the meaning of the feast, "Snow" Festival is to eat acid ***. Snowton" festival is to eat yogurt festival.
The origin of the Snowdon Festival can be traced back to the 17th century AD, when the Snowdon Festival is a purely religious activities. Tibetan Buddhism Gelugpa (yellow) master Tsongkhapa for the monks to develop a summer residence system, that is, the monks are only allowed to practice indoors in the summer, not allowed to the outdoor activities.
Because summer is the most active season for all kinds of creatures on the plateau, so as not to kill unintentionally, they have to perform three things in the temple; that is, the long purification, summer rest until the dissolution of the system. This abstinence lasts until the end of June and the beginning of July of the Tibetan calendar.
To the day of the opening of the ban, the monks have out of the temple down the mountain, in addition to enjoying the world's people to give alms to the sour *** good feast, but also to have fun. In the mid-17th century, the Qing Emperor officially enshrined the fifth *** and the fourth Panchen.
According to the fifth *** of the will, "Snowdon" activities increased in the content of the Tibetan opera performed in Lop Burin Ka, and allows people to enter the garden to see the play. In this way, Snowdon Festival has gradually become an annual mass festival.
As the main content of the festival gradually evolved into Tibetan opera performance, so it is also known as the Tibetan opera festival. Now, during the festival, there are mainly activities such as Drepung Buddha, Tibetan opera performances and visiting Rinca.
This festival is not only *** there, in Shigatse called "color wood Qinbo", the time is later than ***, the scale is smaller than ***. To the second half of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Qing Emperor enthroned the fifth *** Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso and the fifth Panchen Lobsang Yixi, given the gold book, gold seal, so *** "unity of religion and politics" system has been strengthened, the Snowdon Festival content is more enriched, and has begun to perform the Tibetan opera, and the formation of a fixed Snowdon Festival.
According to records, to participate in the Snowdon Festival performances are Zazhi Xueba, very big bar, descending Gaer, Xiangba, Juemulong, Ta Zhong, Lunzhugang, Lang Zewa, Bintongba, Ruoqin Ga, Xirong Zhongzi, Gonbudzhuo Ba*** twelve Tibetan theater groups. So this national traditional festival with more than three hundred years of history, in a sense can be said to be a Tibetan opera festival.
Tibetan opera infiltrated into the initial stage of the Snowdon Festival, is the beginning of the combination of religious and recreational activities, but the scope is still limited to the temple. First to the Drepung monastery as the center of activity, so people called "Drepung Snow Festival".
The fifth *** from the Drepung Monastery moved to the Potala Palace, June 30 each year after the Snowdon Festival, is always the first in the Drepung Monastery Tibetan opera will be performed, the next day to the Potala Palace for the *** performances. In the early eighteenth century, after the completion of the Roblin card, become *** summer palace, so the activities of the Snow Festival from the Potala Palace moved to the Roblin card, and began to allow the public masses into the garden to watch the Tibetan opera.
After this, the activities of the Snowdon Festival is more complete, formed a set of fixed festival ceremonies. Before the democratic reform, every year in the Tibetan calendar June 29, Tibetan drama troupes from all over the early morning to the Potala Palace to the local *** Head of Tibetan opera "Ziqia Lekong" report, and a simple ceremony performance.
Then rushed to Lopblingka to *** greetings, return to Drepung Monastery that night. The next day (June 30) is the Drepung Snowdon Festival, a day of Tibetan opera.
July 1, by the ***, Rikabe, poor Ji, Yalong, Dulong Deqing, Nimu and other places of the five troupes, six "Zhaxi Sherpa" theater troupe, a yak dance troupe and a "Zorba" dance that is to beat the drums in the Lop Buri Lingka joint performance. The program was held from July 2nd to 5th. July 2 to 5, and then by the Jiangzi, Angren, Namling, *** four local troupes take turns to play a day of square theater, Xuedong Festival five days, the Kashgar *** holiday, all officials to focus on the Lop Noringka accompanied by *** to see the play, every day at noon the Kashgar hosted a banquet for all the officials, the seat should be eaten during the sour ***.
In 1959, *** after the democratic reform, the content of the Snowdon Festival is more rich. During the festival, *** city near the Tibetan people in groups of three to five, young and old together, carrying a variety of colorful baggage, hand-held barley wine barrels, pouring into the Lop Lam Ka.
Festival, in addition to the local *** Tibetan theater group, there are Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces of the Tibetan theater group came to the holy city of *** cut theater. In addition to watching Tibetan opera, people also set up colorful tents under the shade of the trees, on the ground on the card mat, carpet, fruit and wine, dishes and other festive food.
Some talk and drink, some dance and sing, many cultural organizations also come to perform national songs and dances, as a cheer. The commercial sector transported all kinds of materials and festival food to Labrinka, set up stalls and tents, supplying tourists.
In the afternoon, each family began to string curtains as guests, the host to guests to three dry a cup of "SongZhunNieTa" wine, in the persuasion, singing different tunes of the wine song, the tent, each other toast, very lively. In recent years, the autonomous region of the organs, units will be large-scale cultural activities, academic seminars, experience-sharing will be arranged during the Snowdon Festival, so that the Snowdon Festival is more significant.