Tibetan Spring Festival custom
In Tibet, the Tibetan New Year is the biggest and most folk festival among many festivals, which is called "Los
Tibetan Spring Festival custom
In Tibet, the Tibetan New Year is the biggest and most folk festival among many festivals, which is called "Losa" in Tibetan. People in different parts of Tibet celebrate the Tibetan New Year at different times, while the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar is celebrated in Lhasa and most parts of Tibet. In Lhasa, the Tibetan calendar1February began to prepare for the Tibetan New Year, and the Tibetan calendar1February 29 began to celebrate.
Tibetans celebrate the New Year according to their own calendar. The Tibetan calendar is similar to the Han Chinese lunar calendar. The Tibetan calendar year usually comes within a few days after the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. On the day before New Year's Eve, when the sun is about to set, every household dumps dirty water and dirt to the west, so that those dirty things can be removed with the setting of the sun, as a sign to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, hoping that people will prosper and everything will grow.
On New Year's Eve, there will be a grand "God Jump". People dressed in gorgeous costumes and grotesque masks, accompanied by conch, drum, suona and other musical instruments, sang and danced wildly to welcome the new and exorcise evil spirits. On New Year's Eve, Tibetans like to eat oil cakes, milk cakes, blood sausage and hand-grabbed meat. On the morning of New Year's Day, women will go to the river or the well to fetch water, which symbolizes the good luck, health and longevity of the whole family. Then, every household put a symbolic offering "bamboo as a horse" on the eye-catching red table. "Bamboo Horse" is an ingot-shaped long color basin (similar to the grain barrel in Han area). One end is filled with wheat grains, and the other end is filled with cakes made of white sugar, ghee and highland barley powder, with several strings of dyed wheat ears and highland barley ears inserted on them. I hope that the five grains will be abundant and people and animals will prosper. Cheerful people gathered in the room with "bamboo, vegetables and horses", worshiping highland barley wine, offering Hada, singing and dancing and celebrating the Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival, friends, relatives and neighbors pay New Year greetings to each other and present Hada to each other, wishing them happiness. And entertain guests with highland barley wine, butter tea and cakes. The square and Yuan Ye are even more lively. Young people get together to hold competitions and shooting competitions, and songs and cheers come and go. After the game, everyone got together, lit a bonfire, played a United blessing song, danced the "Pot Village" chord dance, and reveled until late at night.
During the Tibetan New Year, residents will replace their roofs with colorful prayer flags every year, hoping for a bumper harvest and good luck in the coming year. Usually residents choose to change on the third day of the Tibetan calendar. This year, according to the astronomical calendar of the Tibetan calendar, the second day of the Tibetan calendar, 7 o'clock, 9 o'clock; The fourth day of the Tibetan calendar, 10: 30, is a sunny day, and colorful prayer flags can be erected.
Tibetan calendar1February 29th is full of rich customs and habits, and the whole process is full of auspiciousness and laughter. In the evening, the hostess will put nine kinds of food with different meanings into the dough bumps, and when everyone is here, everyone will sit around and eat the "ancient soil" reunion dinner. Everyone is very excited to eat the representative things, among which salt represents laziness, and pepper represents knife mouth and tofu heart ... After eating "ancient pictures", there is an exorcism ceremony, walking around every room in the house with torches, and then throwing them into the street, which means driving unlucky and ominous things out of the house to welcome the New Year.