Naadam Assembly has a long history, in ancient times during the Assembly to carry out large-scale sacrificial activities, praying for divine blessings, eliminate disasters and difficulties. Nowadays, the Naadam Conference retains various traditional programs, including wrestling, horse racing, archery, etc. Among them, wrestling is the most popular among Mongolians. Among them, wrestling is the most favorite activity of Mongolians. In the wrestling competition, whoever wins the championship will be honored by everyone and adored by the girls. If you win the championship for two years in a row, you can get the title of "Giant".
In addition, the Naadam Assembly also has a restaurant, tea stalls, book stalls, storytelling shed, the entire grassland presents a thriving scene.
Gurbang Festival is China's Hui, Uygur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tajik, Tatar, Kirgiz, Salar, Dongxiang, Security and other ethnic minorities **** with the festival.
Gurbang Festival in Arabic is called "Erd. Gurban", also known as "Erd. It is also known as "Erd. "Erd" means festival, "Gurbang" and "Aizuha" both contain "slaughter, sacrifice animals". The name of the festival is therefore usually given to it. Therefore, the name of this festival is usually translated into Chinese as "Eid al-Adha", i.e. the festival of slaughtering and sacrificing animals. In China, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang translate it as "Kurban Festival". The festival is celebrated on December 10th of the Islamic calendar. Before the festival, every family cleans their houses and is busy making cakes for the festival. Early in the morning of the festival, Muslims take a fragrant bath and go to the mosque to attend the rituals. The Uyghur people in Xinjiang, whether in the city or rural squares on the Gurban Festival, will be held in the grand Maxilaipu song and dance gatherings. The early morning service on Gurbang Festival is the largest one in a year, and all adult men have to go to the local worship temple to attend the gathering ceremony, which is a spectacular scene. The most famous is the Kashgar Aitigaer mosque in front of the large gathering ceremony, the square is surrounded by colorful umbrella shed, cloth shed, cloth account, plywood room, laid with a variety of wooden tables, carts, carpets, blankets, square towels, with a wide variety of food snacks on top. In Xinjiang's Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek and other ethnic groups, the festival is also held during the goat, horse racing, wrestling and other competitions. After the gathering ceremony, the musicians climbed to the top of the door of the Etigarh Mosque, struck the nagra (iron shell drum), blew the Sunayi (oboe), and the men on the square in front of the big temple danced a passionate and spirited shamanic dance.
Eid al-Fitr is China's Hui, Uighur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tajik, Tatar, Kyrgyz, Salar, Dongxiang, Security and other ethnic minorities **** with the celebration of the festival, but also the annual festival of the Hui people in China. Time the beginning of October on the Ismaili calendar.
Eid al-Fitr, is the Arabic "Erd. Fetur" translation. In China's Xinjiang region, Eid al-Fitr called Meatz Festival, "Meatz" is Persian, meaning "fasting"; some ethnic groups called Eid al-Fitr "Elder Festival", "Elder", "Elder", "Elder", "Elder", "Elder", "Elder", "Elder", "Elder", "Elder". "Erd" is the transliteration of the Arabic language, meaning "festival".
Every year in September of the Islamic calendar, known as Ramadan. The number of days of fasting is sometimes twenty-nine and sometimes thirty. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims are required to eat their fasting meal before sunrise. After the sunrise of the whole day, no matter how hungry, not allowed to eat a little something, drink a mouthful of water, usually smoking folders also want to temporarily give up smoking, so-called fasting (or put fasting). In addition, Muslims are also required to abstain from sexual intercourse during the month of Ramadan, restraining all selfish desires and cutting off all evil thoughts, as a sign of faith in God Allah. Children and the infirm may refrain from fasting, and women may refrain from fasting during their menstruation, but they must abstain from eating and drinking, and must never eat or drink in public places. Those who are sick or in a hurry may not fast, but they should make up for it later, and those who cannot make up for it should pay the money as a penalty. In the evening, when the fasting will end, the mosque Iftar bells when ringing, the situation is completely different from the fasting, people can eat and drink and laugh, neighbors can be reunited with a table, and even travel strangers feel hungry, casually walk to the home of strangers, will be subjected to the hospitality of the host. The celebration of Eid al-Fitr, grand and solemn. As early as before the arrival of Eid al-Fitr, people painted houses, cleaned the courtyard, haircutting and bathing. Young men and women often choose to hold weddings during the festival.
The Tibetan New Year is the Tibetan people **** with the traditional festival, monastic monks and lay people as well as celebrating the annual New Year Festival. However, the projected method of the Tibetan calendar year and the Lunar New Year there are some differences.
According to legend, the Tibetan calendar began in about one hundred years BC, by the former Tibetan Yalong place of a person named Karmo Parma, according to the moon's cycle, the initial projection of the day, month and year. Later people called it "Karmapama Calendar Algorithm". Later, the Yalong area gradually develops, whenever the crops are ripe and harvested once, the farmers will hold a party to celebrate the harvest, year after year, this activity slowly formed a regular celebration, and later was designated as "ripe wheat for the first year of the year" of the physical calendar. Until now, after the autumn wheat harvest in Linzhi, Tibet, people celebrate the festival, you can also see the continuation of this calendar and the influence of the weather.
In 624 AD, the snowy region and the Tibetan language known as "beauty, Ka, Gatso" (meaning fire, air, sea) of the calendar epoch. This calendar to monkeys, chickens and other twelve animals Zodiac year, the same order and twelve branches of the earth, every 12 years for a cycle, each year, spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons. To the early 9th century, by the Tibetan astronomers sangje yixi, jianzan betsang and others, to the mainland of the summer calendar and India's time wheel calendar and the ancient "kamo parma" calendar as the basis, created the traditional calendar of the Tibetan people. It uses the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth and the twelve animal signs of the zodiac to calculate the year, month and day. This projection method, which is the same as the ten heavenly stems, creates a week every 60 years. In 1027 A.D. the Wheel of Time Sutra of India was translated into Tibetan and introduced into Tibet. This year is good in the sky is the year of the rabbit, the Tibetan history of this year as the first year of the first 60-year cycle of the first year, that is to say, the Tibetan New Year that is the beginning of this year, the Tibetan language on the 1027 year elegantly known as the first round of the very, meaning the year of the victory.
The so-called "Shengsheng" refers to the Wheel of Time Sutra, which says that Shambhala's Nansheng Dharma King preached the last year - 1026, so the next year as "Shengsheng year".
The Tibetan calendar year has a history of more than 970 years, it and the Spring Festival are basically in the same month, just a few days difference. So the monks and nuns of the Thar Monastery celebrate the Tibetan New Year and the Spring Festival at the same time. From the Tibetan calendar in mid-December to clean the hall and their own monastery, prepare ritual offerings, do their own food fried fruit, Jia Louma (also known as mat braid), rolls and so on. Twenty-fourth night sacrifice Zaoshen. Tibetan calendar with the same Chinese calendar is also the first month of January as the Bengchun, the first day of January as the beginning of the New Year.
From the 30th onwards, in the monastery, the living Buddha's residence and the monks' homes to set up the production of "Choksor Chema".
Chokso Cheema is made of wheat, ghee, tsampa and other offerings, referred to as "Cheema", is the Tibetan people to symbolize the auspiciousness of a kind of good luck. Zhuosuo is the Tibetan language, meaning wheat, wheat, wheat. Harvest of wheat, large ears, double ears, the ancients thought that the omen of auspiciousness. "Cutting horse" in the cut is barley fried and ground into pastry.
The practice of Chokso Cheema, first of all, with a wooden board to make a rectangular wooden bucket, varying in size, some in the bucket outside the carving of the eight Rui phase or the dragon and phoenix, paint a new, extremely delicate, the general family with a bucket or liter can be. Specially made wooden bucket inside from the center of the partition, a partition filled with wheat, a partition filled with pastry. There is no partition below full of wheat, placed on top of the cake, stacked into a pyramid shape, inserted with various colors of pigments dyed wheat, but also not colored wheat, chicken flowers (also known as Rui Sheng Hua) and Zizhuo. Ciz Zhuo shaped like a token, the two sides of the top of each paste with color dyed ghee shaped sun, moon and the eight Rui Xiang. Zhuo Suo Cheema made in the Buddha Hall or hall on the offering table, on both sides of the fried cakes, the center of the ghee lamp lit. In order to the new national customs and habits, now some personnel ethnic religious work units have also begun to use Choksor Cheema, Tibetan New Year worship activities. It is said that Zhuosuo Cheema in the sun, the moon is the last to Benjaminism because of the belief in heaven and earth and the sun and moon and the contents of the increase; eight Rui Xiang is the Tibetan Buddhism after the rise of Buddhism brand, wheat and chicken spike flower is affected by the influence of foreign cultures and add. Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Tal Temple, the big pull to let auspicious new palace top blowing auspicious right white conch, living Buddha, the Sangha get up and wash, burn butter tea, first dip a little into the air sprinkled three times, to honor heaven and earth God and Buddha, and then drink a few bit of their own to show that share the auspiciousness, and then wear a new robe and cap to go to the hall chanting Buddha. The two deacon monks invited Mr. Tsultrim Shah Ooi and the General Assembly citation master to preside over the prayers of the Buddha Ceremony. After the monks recited the classics of Mahamudra, Dharma Protecting Mother and Life Release, all the prayers paid homage to the Great Dharma Platform. At the same time, prayers were also recited on the top floor of the Great Sutra Hall and in the three main colleges. They prayed that in the new year the Dharma would flourish, the people would be well, all diseases would dissipate, and there would be an abundance of grains. The eight great and small rajis and the living Buddha's residences brought New Year's gifts to pay homage to the Great Dharma Terrace. The three great khams and Xiangzuo were only congratulated on the New Year without gifts. After the conclusion of the prayer ceremony, a New Year's tea ceremony was held, and the great monks, chief priests, and offering masters came to the auspicious new palace to invite the Dafa Dai to the tea ceremony. Dafa stage from the monks in the middle of the red carpet laid on the top turn to the monks bowed, congratulations on the New Year, and then sat down to the chief seat, the three major Kantai and the living Buddha is divided into two rows of seated. At this time, the tantric college rajang's cook holding a wooden plate, medical Ming and the wheel of time college of tea monk from the dafa platform in turn to offer tea, rajang auspicious new palace supply of fried fruits, eight treasures of rice, fruits and so on. All the monks of the temple hand in hand with tea bowls, recite a section of the pre-tea sutra, began to use the tea, a joyful gathering. After the tea, the big pull to let invite everyone to go to the monk feast, at this time, the three big khenpo and the monk officer took out the pre-prepared hatha, in order to offer to the big dharma platform performance congratulations, after going to the big ji wah to feast. Said monk feast, is not what sumptuous delicacies, seven dishes and eight bowls of feast, mainly fried fruit and rolls and other vegetarian buns, sweets, chashan, rice, hand-held mutton. Hand-grasped mutton is also divided into portions according to its identity, ordinary monks only one per person, the great Dafa Tai and the great living Buddha can be divided into several portions.
On the second day of the first month, the tea and food feast is prepared by the Great Jiwa. On this day in the great protector of the God's temple (small gold tile temple) held in the protector of the God's séance ceremony, the great Dharma to the protector of the God's temple, two big Laji, the protector of the God's division to the great Dharma to dedicate Dengjia (full of a plate of sweets, food, grapes, dates and so on, called the Dengjia) and Hada, monks read the "Lobsang Gavarma" scripture. After reciting the sutra, the deacon monk holding a handful of lighted incense in the temple incense patrol. Two big lhaji to the Dharma God offerings, the big lhaji auspicious new Palace to the Dharma God Temple dedication to a set of saddles as the main New Year's gift to the God of 13 kinds of gifts, the big ji wow dedication to a satin as the main gift 11 kinds of gifts, the six small lhaji dedication of 5 kinds of gifts, the deacons of the monks to dedicate the hatha 1 article. After the dedication, the monks recite in unison the cycle of life and death and nirvana silence sutra and "danba ma sutra". After the beginning of the séance, the Dharma Protection Divine Divine Divine Divination in the new year in Buddhism and other related matters. At this time to pull the auspicious new Palace drums for the horn, signaling to participate in the séance ceremony of the deacon monk, living Buddha to attend the banquet.
The third day of the first day of the Lung Po Dharma Temple séance day, the ceremony and the Dharma Temple, the same. After the séance, by the Lung Po Dharma Temple hosted a banquet where to participate in the séance ceremony of the monks.
From the third to the eighth day between the three colleges of the six deacons of the monk tea and food feast for the monks. During the monks with white paper (indicating white and pure) wrapped in a packet of sugar or raisins, under the mat a square of red paper (indicating festive), on the cover of the hatha to their own guru, teacher to pay homage to the New Year. Teacher with milk tea hospitality, but also with dates, persimmons or pear, attached to the original hada return gift. Tibetans have to come to pay homage to the guests must return to give gifts, do not let the empty bag back to the custom.
During the festival, monks go out with a package of gifts (such as sugar, dates, persimmons, raisins and other small packages) and a hatha, meet with good people wishing each other a good new year, and the exchange of gifts and hatha, there are also the habit of mutual gifts and treats. Living Buddha also send gifts to each other to pay tribute to the New Year, etiquette is very frequent.
To the eighth Tibetan New Year and the Spring Festival is basically over, began to pray for the first month of the Great Puja preparations.