The Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the biggest festival of the Tu people. More than ten days before the festival began all kinds of preparations, villages and households show a busy scene. New Year's Eve dinner, singing family songs, to be married to the girl held a "head of the sky" ceremony, each family to perform the ritual of receiving God, but also to worship the God of the stove and the God of the door. On the first day of the New Year, the whole family kneels down to worship God and Buddha, praying for a year of peace. Then the family pays homage to friends and relatives from afar and engages in recreational activities. The New Year Festival ends on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Sutra-watching. Also known as the "scripture watching will", the Turkish language called "Blue Jar". Qinghai Mutual and other places of the Turkish folk event. Every year on the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar and the eighth and ninth days of June in Yuning Temple. At that time, people dressed in clean clothes, to the temple kowtow, light ghee lamps, rolling busy tea (alms tea), alms, food, turn Sigula (turn the mountain), simmering mulberry and so on. Viewing large Buddha statues, watching the lama jump yawning (divine dance). In addition, the meeting also material exchanges and horse racing, archery and other activities.
Sun Buddha Festival. Mutual aid in Qinghai, the Turkish festival, held every year on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. On that occasion, the lamas of the Yuning Temple will be Shambhala Buddha statue by the eaves of the large hall straight to the carpeted steps of the scripture hall. Devotees kowtow to the statue and make offerings. Lama chanting from morning to night. Nearby people have to rush to the temple to worship.
The fifteenth day of the first month. Qinghai Mutual Tu festival, the first month of the lunar calendar every year on the fifteenth day of the festival. During the day, young men and women to the town of Weiyuan to see the social fire, at night, in front of their homes lit fifteen piles of fire, the whole family to jump from each fire over three times, that so the whole family can not be sick in a year, a long and healthy life.
The ring theater. Also known as the ring will. Qinghai Mutual aid around the traditional festival of the Turkish people. Every year on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar in the county government in the town of Weiyuan held. Song Dynasty, the town of Weiyuan named "horse camp". Festival day, people dressed up, have come to the venue. Especially many famous flower children singers, traveled a long way to try and local singers than high and low. People choose their own partner group, divided into a number of games, each group of seven to ten people or so, in the square set up a position to sing. When the competition enters the climax, each field emerges many new singers, and then form a new group, continue to sing. Until the twilight, people are leaving one after another, the winner of the song is known as the "flower king", public red color. In addition to singing flowers, the main activities of the festival are material exchange, opera, horse racing, wrestling, martial arts performances.
Eggs will be. Qinghai Mutual, Datong and other places of the traditional festival of the Tu people. Festival time for the annual lunar March 3 or March 8, March 18, varying from place to place. At that time, in the temple to hold sacrificial offerings, please priests chanting dance pay God, in order to avoid disasters and disasters, to ensure a good harvest, people and animals. Attendance of the masses also carry a lot of cooked eggs, one is self-eating, the second is to knock each other as a play.
Qingmiao will. Mutual County, Qinghai Longwang Mountain around the traditional festival of the Tu people. Every year from March to June of the lunar calendar, held by the sorcerer to choose the day. From the Ming Hongwu years (1368 - 1398), the Dragon King manifestation, blessing the soil herdsmen legend. Festival morning people first to Guangfu Temple light incense, worship, please out of the Dragon God palanquin pole, the guardian of the God arrow, and then form a ceremonial procession forward, the team lined up into a single line, some drums, some blowing conch bullhorn, accompanied by the crowd holding a willow until the big East Ridge to rest, picnic, roaming flowers, followed by hiking and trekking, patrolling the fields and borrow the name of the God constraints on the townspeople are not allowed to graze livestock in the fields, are not allowed to cut down the trees trampled on The festival is to protect agricultural production. This festival is actually an activity to protect agricultural production.
Flowers. Tu traditional festival, festival time varies from place to place. The main flower will be: Wufeng Mountain flower will be popular in Qinghai Mutual area, the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year in the Wufeng Mountain held. Wufeng Mountain is located in Mutual Assistance County, Xiguan, because the shape of the mountain peaks and the five fingers of the hand similar to the name. Wufeng Mountain green peaks and mountains, fog phi cloud wrapped, spring water gurgling, beautiful scenery. Every festival, the mountains and mountains, drums and gongs, people come and go, endless streams, or viewing browsing, or race song than dance, on the stage singing flowers, the stage of the collective song, and so on and so forth. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and you'll be able to do that.
In addition, there are still the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Mutual Assistance County, Donggou Dazhuang flower will; June 11, Dan Ma Beach flower will; June 13, Tu Guan Village flower will be and so on.
The traditional festivals of the Turks also include the Ovoo Festival held in spring and autumn every year, the Pilgrimage Festival held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month in Mutual Aid County of Qinghai, the folk festival of the Turks in the Tongren area of Qinghai, the traditional festivals of the Turks in the Guanting, Zhongchuan, and Gamgou areas of Qinghai, the traditional festival of the Naden in the Mutual Aid County of Qinghai, the religious festivals of the Turks in the Minghe, Datong, and Ledu, Ping'an, and Huanghuangzhong, and the Lahai festival, which is the first of its kind in Qinghai.
The February 2nd in the Dongying area of Qinghai Mutual Aid; the Jumping God Festival on the 2nd of February or the 3rd of March or the 8th of April in the Mutual Aid area; the 3rd of March Festival on the 3rd of March in the Haidong area of Qinghai Mutual Aid; the Chingming Festival in the Mutual Aid area; the Ancestor Festival at the end of March and the beginning of April in the Ledu and Minhe areas of Qinghai Mutual Aid; the Buddha Festival on the 1st to the 15th of April in the Mutual Aid area; the Duanyang Festival on the 5th of May; the July Festival on the 7th of July in the Ledu area; and the July 2nd and the 7th of July in the Ledu area. The 7th of July; the Festival of Sacrifice to the God of Wealth on the 22nd of July in the Ledu area; the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th of August (some of the Tujia people do not celebrate this festival); the Chongyang Festival on the 9th of September; the Invitation to the God of God on the 9th of September in the Sanchuan area of Minhe County; the Thanksgiving bale-picking after the autumn harvest and the Threshing Floor Sacrifice on the 1st of October in the Mutual Assistance area; the Winter Solstice Festival; the sending of the God of the Zaoxin on the 24th of Lunar New Year; and the beating of the almsgiving on the 29th of Lunar New Year and the 14th of the First New Year in the Mutual Assistance area.