The main festivals of the Tibetan people are New Year's Day, the 15th day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, and the Saga Dawa Festival.
The Tibetan calendar for the yin and yang calendar, to the "five elements" (wood, fire, earth, gold, water) yin and yang with the twelve genus of the Department of the year, every 60 years a week to the yin and fire rabbit year (dingmao) for the beginning of the year, the month of the big, small build, generally three years to set the intercalary; the Tibetan New Year's Day is the most important festival.
The first month of the Tibetan calendar fifteenth, the local people have to watch the custom of ghee lanterns. april 15 to commemorate the birth of the Buddha and Tang Wencheng Princess of Tibet's auspicious day, the folk held celebrations. Tibetan festivals and Saga Dawa Festival, Snowdon Festival, Lantern Festival and Wang Guo Festival.
In addition to the Tibetan calendar year, every year on the first day of the seventh month of the Tibetan calendar, to have "Snowdon Festival". Xuedong Festival originally means "yogurt feast", when families have to make a lot of yogurt to eat, and later increased the content of the Tibetan opera.
Snowton Festival many people have to carry ghee tube, teapot, thermos flask, bring food to the beautiful scenery of the place to drink tea and wine. In the annual fall harvest before the "hope fruit festival", the hope fruit festival to feast each other and a variety of picnic activities to meet the fall harvest. There are also traditional festivals such as the "Bathing Festival" and the "Winter Festival".
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The Tibetans live mainly in the Tibet Autonomous Region and in Haibei and Huangnan of Qinghai, Golog and Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures and Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Mutu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, and Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan.
The Tibetans have their own language and script. The Tibetan language belongs to the Tibetan branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and is divided into three dialects: Weizang, Kangfang and Amdo. The current Tibetan script is a phonetic script developed in the early 7th century on the basis of ancient Sanskrit and Western scripts.
The offering of the Hada is the highest form of Tibetan hospitality, expressing a warm welcome and sincere respect for the guest. Hada is the Tibetan word for sarong or silk scarf. It is mainly white, but also light blue or yellowish, generally about 1.5 meters to 2 meters long, about 20 cm wide.
The best is blue, yellow, white, green and red colorful hada. The five-colored hada is used by Tibetans for the highest and most solemn ceremonies (such as Buddhist ceremonies) and so on. According to the Tibetan scholar Chirye Quzha's "Tibet Terroir Journal", Hada was introduced to Tibet in the Yuan Dynasty. Tibetan Sakya Dharma King Basta brought the first Hada with him when he met with Yuan Shizu Kublai to return to Tibet.
At that time, the hatha had a design of the Great Wall on both sides and the Chinese character for "good luck" on it. This suggests that the hatha was indeed invented by the Han Chinese.
Tibetan medicine is an important part of Chinese medicine. Tibetan medicine emphasizes concoction technology, especially for veterinarians have unique features. The main works of medicine are the Four Continuing Medical Formulas. Arithmetic can predict solar and lunar eclipses and local weather in the near future.
The Tibetans generally practice Tibetan Buddhism, or Lamaism. In the past, many traditional days were related to religious activities. The biggest traditional festival of Tibetan folklore is the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar every year.
The Tibetan New Year generally from the Tibetan calendar in December on the start of the preparations, shopping for New Year's goods, families have to use ghee to deep-fry the rice noodles, the Tibetan New Year, there are a lot of types of rice noodles, there is an ear-shaped "Gou over", there is a long form of the "Naxia", there are circular "There are many different kinds of food for the Tibetan New Year.
But also with colorful ghee pinch a sheep's head, making a rectangular bucket of grains, bucket filled with ghee mixed with tsampa, fried barley grains and other food, the top of the insertion of barley spikes, cockscomb and ghee to do the colorful flowers. New Year's Eve cleaning, each household outside the door with lime powder painted with symbols of good luck of the eight Swiss phase symbols.
Tibetan New Year's Eve dinner in Yunnan, every family eats dough (similar to dumplings), in the dough were wrapped with stones, chili peppers, charcoal, wool, each of which has a different saying, such as eating the dough wrapped stones, that in the new year he is hard-hearted; and eating the dough wrapped wool, that he is soft-hearted.
On the morning of the first day of the year, the barley seedlings, the oil and rice, pinched sheep's head, well done grains bucket, placed in front of the Buddha's niche on the coffee table, heralding in the new year, the five grains of abundance, clothing and food. Tibetans in Yunnan, New Year's Eve, families have to kill the pig, the first morning of the first get up, everyone has to drink a kind of barley wine with brown sugar and milk dregs, called "Guan Dian".
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, most Tibetan areas conduct religious pujas.
In the folk marriage to send and festivals as lively, when marrying, the master should be in the mouth of the wine pot and the mouth of the wine cup with ghee molded three to the head, in order to express auspiciousness. In the toast, the elders first with the middle finger dipped in wine toward the top, middle and bottom of the flick three times, in order to express the sacrifice of heaven, earth and gods.
Welcome guests in addition to the hand dipped in wine pop three, but also in the grain bucket to catch a little barley, thrown into the air three times. At the banquet, the host picks up the wine cup first drink mouth, and then (You + bucket) full of a drink, the host finished drinking the first cup of wine, everyone can drink freely. At the wedding, the groom will toast the bride.
Drinking tea, the guest must wait for the host to hold the tea in front of him to reach over and drink, otherwise it is considered rude. The traditional Tibetan feast is a separate meal, with no rice or snacks.
The first course of food for the foot horse rice, the second course of dried meat, the third course of pork fat, the fourth course of cheese, the fifth course of blood sausage, etc., but also on a lot of road, the last one for the yogurt. No alcohol is consumed during the meal. Hosts and guests can eat more, less food or not eat, but the first and last one must eat, the former symbolizes good luck, the latter means complete.
Eating is not full of food, chewing no sound, drinking no sound, picking food does not cross the plate. Hospitality with mutton to the lower part of the sheep spine with the tail of a piece of meat is expensive, to honor the most respected guests. The production of the tail meat, but also to leave a lock of white hair, indicating good luck.
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