The origin of the Hyangnang Festival's athletic program

The annual gathering of firewood by monks has evolved into a festival where monks and laymen go out together. The festival is because every summer, the monastery monks need to go out to collect firewood, thus taking the opportunity to enjoy the scenery, while collecting, and gradually evolved into the monks and laymen together picnic festival developed into the current festival of ringing waves. Time in the fourth to seventeenth day of the sixth lunar month, the Tibetan people gathered in the grassy beaches and dense forests in the mountains, slaughter cows and sheep, prepare fragrant tea, set up wine, congratulate each other on a happy holiday, riders riding red and green steeds, yaks come one after another, to participate in horse races, yak races, archery and "elephant tug-of-war" and other activities. Young men and women sing enthusiastic toasts to the sound of cymbals, gongs and suona music. Jumping up the joy of the "pot Zhuang" dance, performance of Tibetan opera, quite a national character.