The three major festivals of the Hui people do not include the Snowdon Festival.
Snowdon Festival is Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces and regions of the Tibetan people's national festival, one of the national intangible cultural heritage, "Snowdon" means yogurt feast. In Tibetan, "snow" is the meaning of yogurt, "ton" is "eat", "feast" means, Snow Festival according to the Tibetan interpretation is to eat yogurt. Tibetan interpretation is to eat yogurt festival. Because of the Xuedong Festival during the Tibetan opera performances and sun Buddha ceremony, so some people also called "Tibetan opera festival", "show Buddha Festival".
Snowdon Festival in the 17th century is a primitive religious festivals, folklore, due to the warmer weather in the summer, the insects hibernate, the recovery of all things, during which the monks go out and inevitably trampled on the killing of life, contrary to the precepts of the "do not kill".
Therefore, the precepts of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan calendar April to June period, monks can only be in the temple chanting practice, until the end of June to open the ban. Until the day of the opening of the ban, monks have been out of the temple down the mountain, secular people in order to reward the monks, ready to brew yogurt, for them to hold picnics and wild feasts, and in the celebration of the Tibetan opera. This is the origin of the Snowdon Festival.
Tibetan Opera Performance
Tibetan opera performance is the essence of the festival. After more than 600 years of inheritance and development, the traditional Tibetan opera performances show the charm of Tibetan opera art with its unique dance rhythms, loud and clear singing, gorgeous costumes, simple masks and colorful plots .......
For also teach also secular Snowdon Festival, the annual Tibetan opera performances play a pivotal role in communicating between God and man, into the Tibetan opera performances have the effect of entertaining the gods, but also entertaining the joy of people.
Tibetan opera performance form with the trend of the times in constant change, for example, from the simple square dance to the stage, and its reform and development of innovation is the most important feature is that in addition to retaining some of the characteristics of the character of the mask is extremely strong, most of the characters that the actors are no longer masks for the performance, but the use of masquerade performances, and the character of the artistic characteristics of the character is more distinctive.