Tibetan festivals: on the ninth custom (Chinese traditional festival)

Every year on the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, stony soil Tibetan cottages are decorated with lanterns, overflowing with the atmosphere of the festival. When the red sun rises on the top of the snowy mountains, men, women and children dressed in festive attire, full of spring breeze out of the village, beating gongs and drums, and line up. Walking in front of the team is the dragon lamp, cattle lamp and lion lamp, colorful Tibetan costumes make the flow of people become a gorgeous "ribbon". "Ribbons" floating place, the owner of the Walled City opened the pot Zhuang Zhuang room, set out a long time ago prepared cigarettes, tea, sugar, fruit, standing at the gate to meet. Dragon lanterns, cattle lamps and lion lamps first kowtow to worship, guests and hosts of mutual arching hands to say goodbye. "Laughing Monk". Hang up a red color on the door of the host's house to herald the opening of the new year, the new year of good luck, and then lead the dragon lamp, ox lamp and lion lamp dancing. After a lot of noise, the host also merged into the team full of spring, and everyone went to another family cottage.

At noon, the sun will be sprinkled with the golden light of the Tibetan mountains and waters, the west of the people flocked to the gold roof - stony moraine Tibetan symbol. "Golden Top" below the stony soil street drums and drums, can sing and dance stony moraine Tibetan compatriots hand in hand, in three layers, three layers outside the circle, jumping up the joy of the pot Zhuang dance. Various road performance team began a unique traditional program performance.

"Two Dragons Playing with Pearls" - two huge dragons with golden scales and armor in people's hands followed by a large pearl undulating and tumbling, like two rainbows flying;

"Erlang herds cattle "-Two masked hinds drive a bull lamp, playing and teasing with it while singing traditional folk songs in Tibetan;

"Lion over Doki" - The lion lamp is led by a laughing head monk.

"Lions on a high log bridge, led by a laughing monk, perform various acrobatic feats;

"Swan Hatching Eggs" - four large square tables are overlapped.

"Air to take the treasure" ---- in a tall tree hanging on the tip of a string of firecrackers, wearing masks on the head of the "actors" layer by layer to build a human ladder, until standing on the top of the fire to ignite the firecrackers. That skillful, clever action, thrilling performance, so that the audience from time to time the heart tightly closed, from time to time open heartedly happy, the crowd often broke out in a burst of applause.

The program also includes basketball games, tug-of-war, horse races, cultural performances and so on. The content of a wide range of diverse forms, both with the characteristics of the national tradition, but also rich in modern civilization, pleasing to the ear, dazzling.

When the evening sun disappeared, the night sky is dotted with stars, stony soil Tibetan township lights, Block Walled House came from a burst of song, Walled House in the potlatch room, the fire burning, Tibetan compatriots let go of the bright throat, step in the rhythm of the song, the young man and the girls can not help but around the fire jumping up the joy of the potlatch, the children in the middle of the shuttle chasing; the old people sitting next to the taste of fragrant milk tea and sweet wine, enjoying a family life on earth. Enjoy the heavenly happiness on earth. The entire stony moraine Tibetan township immersed in the happiness of the festival, until the next day, the star rose from the east.