The traditional Tibetan New Year is the grandest festival of the Tibetan people. From the beginning of December in the Tibetan calendar, people start to prepare for the New Year to eat, wear, play and use things. At this time, families began to soak barley seeds in the water basin, cultivate seedlings, the first day of the Tibetan calendar, to be long one or two inches of seedlings, placed in the Buddha's niche above the coffee table, wishing the New Year a good harvest of food. From mid-December, families prepare ghee and white flour, and one after another fried fruit (Kasai), this is the housewives show their skills. There are many types of kasai, including the ear-shaped "kongo", the long "nasha", the large twist-like "mukdung", and the disk-shaped "mukdung". There are ear-shaped "Kobo", long "Nasha", twine-like "Mudong", disk-shaped "Bulu" and spoon-shaped "Bindo". Close to the New Year, every family should prepare a called "bamboo Suqi Ma" grain bucket, bucket filled with ghee mixed with tsampa, fried wheat and ginseng fruit and other food, above inserted barley cob, cocklebur and ghee made of colorful flower plate (called "Zizhuo"), but also to prepare a colorful ghee flower molding. Prepare a colorful ghee flowers molded sheep's head (called "Lu over"). All of these arrangements, marking the past year's harvest, wishing a good year in the new year, agriculture and animal husbandry to get a good harvest.
Two days before New Year's Eve, every family cleans up, puts up a new card mat, puts up a new New Year's picture, and before supper on the 29th, before cleaning up the center wall of the stove room, sprinkles "eight auspicious emblems" with dry flour; and draws a swastika on the front door, symbolizing good luck and eternity, with lime powder; some people use swastikas, symbolizing good luck and eternity; and some people use swastikas, symbolizing good luck and eternity; and others use swastikas, symbolizing good luck, symbolizing good luck, symbolizing good luck. "On the main door, a swastika is drawn with lime powder to symbolize good luck and eternity; some people draw a lot of white powder dots on the beams of their own houses to show that people live long and have plenty of food. For dinner on this day, each family eats a dough ball called "Gutu". This is in accordance with the name of the date named, "ancient" that is nine (said twenty-nine days), "sudden", that is, the meaning of the batter soup (Tibetan language "Tuba"). This is the same as the Han Chinese New Year's Eve dinner habits. This meal, the family sat around the gathering. Tuba dough wrapped in a variety of things, including stones, chili peppers, charcoal, wool and other things, to see who gets to eat these things. Whoever eats the dough wrapped with stones is predicted to have a hard heart in the coming year, charcoal is predicted to have a black heart, chili peppers have a mouth like a knife, and wool means that he has a soft heart. People who eat these things, are to be spit out, causing laughter, to help the New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve night, according to the economic conditions of each family, in front of the Buddha statue set up a variety of food, ready for the holiday in new clothes. Housewives will cook a good "Guanbian" (put brown sugar crushed milk slag tsampa and other hot barley wine), the first morning of the daybreak to the front of the people nest, let them drink.
The traditional custom on the first day of the Lunar New Year is that the housewife first get up, wash up, go to the well to play on the first bucket of water, feed the livestock back to the house to wake up the family. After the family put on their new clothes, according to the order of seniority seated, the elders brought to the grain bucket, each person first grabbed a few grains, to the sky to sprinkle, said the sacrifice to the gods, and then grabbed a little bit of their own mouths in turn. At this time, the elders in turn wish "Zaxi Dele", the younger generation should always be back to congratulate: "I wish you good health, always happy, wishing that next year's New Year, the whole family and so the reunion to celebrate". After the New Year's ceremony, they ate cereals and ginseng fruit cooked in ghee, and then mutual barley wine. On the first day of the year, is generally closed to get together, do not visit each other. From the second day of the year relatives and friends pay tribute to each other for three to five days.
The determination of the Tibetan calendar year is closely related to the use of the Tibetan calendar.
The official use of the Tibetan calendar began more than nine hundred and fifty years ago, in the year of Ding Mao in the lunar calendar (1927 A.D.). Since then, the usage of the Tibetan calendar has been inherited. This calendar is closely related to the cultural exchanges with the Central Plains. Originally, the calendar on the Tibetan plateau was not the way it is now. According to the written records, more than a hundred years ago, Tibet will have its own calendar algorithm, at that time is to the moon's circle, lack of, the solstice, hope to calculate the month, arithmetic is very simple. At that time, the first day of the new year, equivalent to the present Tibetan calendar November 1, which is the stupid religion calendar. In Shannan area, had found a calendar book, called "spinning the old man moon calculation", this ancient calendar algorithm, exhaustive summary of the Tibetan people at that time the rich experience of production and astronomical calendar knowledge. This calendar algorithm has a great influence on the astronomical calendar of the later Tibetan area.
Later, with the Tibetan region and the cultural exchanges in the central plains, the Tibetan calendar algorithm continues to improve and develop. In the Tang Dynasty, Princess Wencheng entered Tibet and brought with her many scriptures and books, among which there were also books on astronomical calendars, which played an extremely important role in the perfection and development of the Tibetan calendar. At this time, the method of calculating the first day of the New Year had progressed from the brightness of the moon to the method of calculating based mainly on the stars. For example, the determination of the New Year was based on the brightness and position of the Ghost Star. However, it is still the first day of November in the current Tibetan calendar as the New Year. Until now, some places in the Shigatse area, also according to this projection method for the New Year.
From the fifth year of Song Renzong's Tiansheng, the Tibetan calendar was gradually unified with the imperial calendar (i.e., the lunar calendar), and by the time the Sakya dynasty of Bashiba ruled over all of Tibet, the Tibetan calendar was fully matured, and the rituals of celebrating the New Year were fixed, and have been inherited up to the present time. Starting from the Yuan Dynasty, the Tibetan calendar established a year of twelve months, with a big month of thirty days and a small month of twenty-nine days. Every thousand days or so, there is a leap month, used to adjust the relationship between months and seasons. And it learns to use the Chinese lunar calendar's heavenly stems and earthly branches to calculate the year. However, the Tibetan calendar divides the celestial body into twelve houses, namely: Aries, Pisces, Taurus, Capricorn, Gemini, Lion, Cancer, Aquarius, Sagittarius, Virgo, Scorpion, Libra. With the twelve earthly branches of the genus: Zi Mouse, ugly cattle, Yin Tiger, Mao Rabbit, chen Long, Si Snake, afternoon horse, ungoat, Shen Monkey, You Chicken, Gushu Dog, Ohio Pig, with the five elements: wood, fire, earth, gold, water to the chronology. This is similar to the lunar calendar dating method.
The Tibetan calendar to twelve years for a small cycle, sixty years for a large cycle, known as a "Rao Qiong", the first "Rao Qiong" is from the beginning of A.D. O27, 198O is the 16th "Rao Qiong The year 1980 was the fifty-fourth year of the sixteenth "Rao Qiong". According to the chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches, nineteen hundred and eighty-two lunar calendar is the year of non E, the Tibetan calendar is called the year of the water dog.
Those who do not celebrate the Spring Festival on the same day as the Han Chinese are: Tibetans.
The Tibetan calendar year is called "Losal" in Tibetan, and is popular in Tibetan areas such as Tibet and Qinghai. As early as one hundred years B.C., they used the moon's waxing and waning to calculate the month. At that time, the first day of the new year was roughly equivalent to the first day of November in the current Tibetan calendar. From 1027 A.D. onwards, the Tibetans began to use the Tibetan calendar, which is now formulated with reference to the lunar calendar, using the five elements of the celestial stem and the 12 genera of the earth's branches to match the calculation.
The date of the Tibetan New Year varies from place to place, with Lhasa and other places celebrating the New Year on the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, the Chamdo region celebrating the New Year on the first day of the 11th month of the Tibetan calendar, and the south of the Chhu River celebrating the New Year on the first day of the 11th month of the Tibetan calendar.
From the beginning of the twelfth month of the Tibetan calendar, people begin to prepare for the New Year.
According to Tibetan scholars, in ancient times, Tibet did not celebrate the New Year at the turn of winter and spring, but in summer, when "wheat is ripe for the first of the year" and "under the snow-capped mountains, the wheat is yellow, and the happy New Year is here." Now, in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, there is a tradition of "Wang Guo" festival before the fall harvest. People wear ancient costumes, riding a horse, along the harvest barley land circle prayer, but also horseback archery, dancing around the bonfire carnival, both entertainment themselves, but also entertainment local protection god. According to legend, this is all ancient Tibet June New Year's Eve legacy.
There is also the New Year in the Tibetan calendar on the first day of October, "wheat harvest for the first of the year". Four hundred kilometers east of Lhasa, snow-capped mountains and virgin forests surrounded by the Gongbu (Linzhi) area, is still the first day of the tenth month of the Tibetan New Year, known as the "Gongbu Losa". Tibetan history records, Gongbu area has a very long history, as early as in the Tubo dynasty before the establishment of the Tibetan primitive religion benzene religion is very prevalent here. The celebration of the New Year in the tenth month of the Tibetan calendar originated in those ancient times.
Around the 13th century AD, when the Sakya dynasty ruled Tibet, Tibetans celebrated the New Year in the first month of the Tibetan calendar. However, farmers often celebrated the New Year earlier, on the first day of December, which was called "Sorang Losar" (Farmer's New Year). The reason is that in the first month of the Tibetan calendar, when spring is in full swing and plowing is in full swing, farmers no longer have the heart to celebrate the New Year.
New Year's Day to wear the most beautiful clothes, wear the most precious jewelry, even if the economic conditions of the poor, but also to prepare a New Year's Eve robe, or one or two rough decorations, the Tibetan language is called 'Saju', i.e., the new clothes. These of course come from the nature of Tibetans to love beauty. But there are also said that the God King Xinzhu Qu Jie, to observe the world's life from the copper mirror, everyone dressed beautifully, he was happy, and then give the world some favor, dressed in rags, he was upset, descending disasters and plagues. Therefore, wearing new clothes on New Year's Day has the meaning of pleasing the God-King.
On the third day of the first month, Lhasa people in groups, out of the noisy and bustling market, to the eastern suburb of the Baobao Mountain and the western suburb of the Medicine King Mountain, inserting sutra flags, hanging colorful streamers, sacrifices to the god of the mountain and the god of the water.
The first five days of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, Lhasa suburbs of farmers to hold a grand open plow ceremony. Farmers dressed in festive attire, strong Pian plough oxen dressed more beautiful, forehead pasted with ghee pattern, horns inserted with red flags and colorful feathers, shoulders draped in colored satin, satin decorated with shells and turquoise, tail tied with colorful ribbons, with the "flamboyant" to describe it, it is not too much.
The Tibetan people celebrate the New Year in accordance with their own calendar for the Tibetan calendar year. The Tibetan calendar is similar to the Chinese lunar calendar. The Tibetan New Year usually comes a few days after the Chinese New Year. On the day before New Year's Eve, when the sun is about to set, every family pours out dirty water and dirt to the west, so that those dirty things can be removed following the setting of the sun, in order to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to hope for the prosperity of the people and the growth of all things.
New Year's Eve this day, to hold a grand, grand "Jumping God will". People wearing colorful costumes, wearing strange masks, in the conch, drums, suona and other musical instruments accompanied by singing and dancing, to show that the old to welcome the new, drive away the evil and blessing. New Year's Eve night, Tibetans like to eat food is oil cake, milk cake, blood sausage, hand-held meat and so on. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, women go to the river or well to carry "auspicious water" to symbolize the family's good fortune, health and longevity. Then, every family puts a symbolic offering, "Druk Suqi Ma", on a conspicuous red table. "Bamboo Suqi Ma" that is the Yuan Bao type of long, large colorful pot (similar to the Han region of the grain bucket), at one end filled with wheat grains, the other end is filled with sugar, ghee and barley flour made of pastries, and inserted on the top of a few bunches of color dyed wheat and barley spikes, and I wish to look forward to a good harvest, people and animals flourish. Happy people in the house with "bamboo Suqi Ma", gathered around each other to drink barley wine, presenting khata, singing and dancing to celebrate the New Year.
During the Spring Festival, family, friends and neighbors, all pay tribute to each other, give each other khata, wishing a happy and happy. And with barley wine, ghee tea and cakes to entertain guests. The square and the wilderness is very lively, the young people get together to hold a race and shooting competition, singing and cheering one after another. After the competition, everyone gathered together, lit a bonfire, played and sang songs of unity and blessing, danced the "pot Zhuang", string dance, and reveled into the night.
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The Tibetan New Year is a traditional festival of the Tibetan people. On the first day of the Tibetan New Year, men and women, young and old, meet each other to say "Zaxi Dele" (good luck), "Losar Sang" (New Year's good). In the New Year, the children set off firecrackers, we drink barley wine, ghee tea, toasting each other, have fun. Tibetan opera is sung in towns and villages, and potshoos and string dances are performed. In pastoral areas, herdsmen lit a bonfire, all night long to sing and dance. During the festival, there are folk wrestling, throwing, tug-of-war, horseback archery and a series of competitions.
The traditional Tibetan New Year is the grandest festival of the Tibetan people. From the beginning of December in the Tibetan calendar, people start to prepare for the New Year to eat, wear, play and use things. At this time, families began to soak barley seeds in the water basin, cultivate seedlings, the first day of the Tibetan calendar, to be long one or two inches of seedlings, placed in the Buddha's niche above the coffee table, wishing the New Year a good harvest of food. From mid-December, families prepare ghee and white flour, and one after another fried fruit (Kasai), this is the housewives show their skills. There are many types of kasai, including the ear-shaped "kongo", the long "nasha", the large twist-like "mukdung", and the disk-shaped "mukdung". There are ear-shaped "Kobo", long "Nasha", twine-like "Mudong", disk-shaped "Bulu" and spoon-shaped "Bindo". Close to the New Year, every family should prepare a called "bamboo Suqi Ma" grain bucket, bucket filled with ghee mixed with tsampa, fried wheat and ginseng fruit and other food, above inserted barley cob, cocklebur and ghee made of colorful flower plate (called "Zizhuo"), but also to prepare a colorful ghee flower molding. Prepare a colorful ghee flowers molded sheep's head (named "Lu over"). All of these arrangements, marking the past year's harvest, wishing a good year in the new year, agriculture and animal husbandry to get a good harvest.
Two days before New Year's Eve, every family cleans up, puts up a new card mat, puts up a new New Year's picture, and before supper on the 29th, before cleaning up the center wall of the stove room, sprinkles "eight auspicious emblems" with dry flour; and draws a swastika on the front door, symbolizing good luck and eternity, with lime powder; some people use swastikas, symbolizing good luck and eternity; and some people use swastikas, symbolizing good luck and eternity; and others use swastikas, symbolizing good luck, symbolizing good luck, symbolizing good luck. "On the main door, a swastika is drawn with lime powder to symbolize good luck and eternity; some people draw a lot of white powder dots on the beams of their own houses to show that people live long and have plenty of food. For dinner on this day, each family eats a dough ball called "Gutu". This is in accordance with the name of the date named, "ancient" that is nine (said twenty-nine days), "sudden", that is, the meaning of the batter soup (Tibetan language "Tuba"). This is the same as the Han Chinese New Year's Eve dinner habits. This meal, the family sat around the gathering. Tuba dough wrapped in a variety of things, including stones, chili peppers, charcoal, wool and other things, to see who gets to eat these things. Whoever eats the dough wrapped with stones is predicted to have a hard heart in the coming year, charcoal is predicted to have a black heart, chili peppers have a mouth like a knife, and wool means that he has a soft heart. People who eat these things, are to be spit out, causing laughter, to help the New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve night, according to the economic conditions of each family, in front of the Buddha statue set up a variety of food, ready for the holiday in new clothes. Housewives will cook a good "Guanbian" (put brown sugar crushed milk slag tsampa and other hot barley wine), the first morning just before dawn to the front of the people nest, let them drink.
The traditional custom on the first day of the Lunar New Year is that the housewife first get up, wash up, go to the well to play on the first bucket of water, feed the livestock back to the house to wake up the family. After the family put on their new clothes, according to the order of seniority seated, the elders brought to the grain bucket, each person first grabbed a few grains, sprinkled to the sky, expressed sacrifice to the gods, and then grab a little bit of their own mouth in turn. At this time, the elders in turn wish "Zaxi Dele", the younger generation should always be back to congratulate: "I wish you good health, always happy, wishing that next year's New Year, the whole family and so the reunion to celebrate". After the New Year's ceremony, they ate cereals and ginseng fruit cooked in ghee, and then mutual barley wine. On the first day of the year, is generally closed to get together, do not visit each other. From the second day of the year relatives and friends pay tribute to each other for three to five days.
The determination of the Tibetan calendar year is closely related to the use of the Tibetan calendar.
The official use of the Tibetan calendar began more than nine hundred and fifty years ago, in the year of Ding Mao (127 A.D.) of the lunar calendar. Since then, the usage of the Tibetan calendar has been inherited. This calendar is closely related to the cultural exchanges with the Central Plains. Originally, the calendar on the Tibetan plateau was not the way it is now. According to the written records, more than a hundred years ago, Tibet will have its own calendar algorithm, at that time is to the moon's circle, lack of, the solstice, hope to calculate the month, arithmetic is very simple. At that time, the first day of the new year was equivalent to the present November 1 of the Tibetan calendar, which is the stupid religious calendar. In Shannan area, had found a calendar book, called "spinning the old man moon calculation", this ancient calendar algorithm, exhaustive summary of the Tibetan people at that time the rich experience of production and astronomical calendar knowledge. This calendar algorithm has a great influence on the astronomical calendar of the later Tibetan area.
Later, with the Tibetan region and the cultural exchanges in the central plains, the Tibetan calendar algorithm continues to improve and develop. In the Tang Dynasty, Princess Wencheng entered Tibet and brought with her many scriptures and books, among which there were also books on astronomical calendars, which played an extremely important role in the perfection and development of the Tibetan calendar. At this time, the method of calculating the first day of the New Year had progressed from the brightness of the moon to the method of calculating based mainly on the stars. For example, the determination of the New Year was based on the brightness and position of the Ghost Star. However, it is still the first day of November in the present Tibetan calendar as the New Year. Until now, some places in the Shigatse area, also according to this projection method for the New Year.
From the fifth year of Song Renzong's Tiansheng, the Tibetan calendar was gradually unified with the imperial calendar (i.e., the lunar calendar), and by the time the Sakya dynasty of Bashiba ruled over all of Tibet, the Tibetan calendar was fully matured, and the rituals of celebrating the New Year were fixed, and have been inherited up to the present time. Starting from the Yuan Dynasty, the Tibetan calendar established a year of twelve months, with a big month of thirty days and a small month of twenty-nine days. Every thousand days or so, there is a leap month, used to adjust the relationship between months and seasons. And it learns to use the Chinese lunar calendar's heavenly stems and earthly branches to calculate the year. However, the Tibetan calendar divides the celestial body into twelve houses, namely: Aries, Pisces, Taurus, Capricorn, Gemini, Lion, Cancer, Aquarius, Sagittarius, Virgo, Scorpion, Libra. With the twelve earthly branches of the genus: Zi Mouse, ugly cattle, Yin Tiger, Mao Rabbit, chen Long, Si Snake, afternoon horse, ungoat, Shen Monkey, You Chicken, Gushu Dog, Ohio Pig, with the five elements: wood, fire, earth, gold, water to the chronology. This is similar to the lunar calendar dating method.
The Tibetan calendar to twelve years for a small cycle, sixty years for a large cycle, known as a "Rao Qiong", the first "Rao Qiong" is from the beginning of A.D. O27, 198O is the 16th "Rao Qiong The year 1980 was the fifty-fourth year of the sixteenth "Rao Qiong". According to the chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches, nineteen eighty-two lunar calendar is the year of non E, the Tibetan calendar is known as the year of the water dog.
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The Tibetan Calendar is a calendar created by the Tibetan people, which has a history of more than 1,000 years (dating from the (Sui and Tang dynasties). The Tibetan calendar is a combination of yin and yang, the year is divided into four seasons, winter, spring, summer and autumn as the order of the year 354 days. 12 months to the crescent month for the first year (the first year and today's "summer calendar" with the same), to the moon cycle for a month. The moon cycle is one month. The big month is 30 days long and the small month is 29 days long. A leap month is used to adjust the relationship between the month and the season. The intercalary time, again, is different from the lunar calendar. Due to the influence of the Chinese calendar, since the 9th century, the Tibetan calendar has also been using the stem and branch chronology, the difference is that the five elements instead of the ten stems: A and B for fire, C and D for water, E and H for earth, G and S for gold, N and D for water; the twelve signs of the zodiac instead of the twelve branches of the earth, i.e., Zi for the rat, ugly for the ox ...... and so on. For example, the year of the first year of the lunar calendar, the Tibetan calendar is called the year of the fire tiger. Stem and branch 60 years a cycle, the Tibetan calendar called "Rao Qiong", and the mainland "sixty flowers Azi" is similar, which reflects the origin of the Chinese and Tibetan calendars. In addition, the Tibetan calendar also set up 24 solar terms, the Tibetan region for the medium and long term weather forecasts, the five planets movement and solar and lunar eclipses are also forecast.
The Tibetan calendar has three major elements, including the physical calendar inherent in Tibetan culture, the wheel calendar introduced by India, and the time constitutional calendar introduced by the Chinese
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The Tibetan calendar has a small cycle of twelve years, and a large one of sixty years, which is called a Raochong. According to the sky stem and earth branch of the chronology, nineteen hundred and eighty-two lunar calendar is the year of non e, the Tibetan calendar known as the year of the water dog.
The Tibetan New Year is a traditional festival of the Tibetan people. On the first day of the Tibetan New Year, men and women, young and old, meet each other to say "zaxi dele" (good luck), "losal sang" (good new year). In the New Year, the children set off firecrackers, we drink barley wine, ghee tea, toasting each other, have fun. Tibetan opera is sung in towns and villages, and potshoos and string dances are performed. In pastoral areas, herdsmen lit a bonfire, all night long to sing and dance. During the festival, there are folk wrestling, throwing, tug of war, horseback archery and a series of competitions.
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