May. 03, 2009
Holidays
The Tibetan national minority has many holidays. Sour Milk Drinking Festival, to deliver the evil spirit festival, SaGe the Dawa festival......Today let me introduce the grandest Tibetan New Year! The Tibetan national minority new year in the Zang calendar on January 1, in Tibetan meaning is “king the new year”. This is in Tibetan national minority one year is most important and the grandest holiday. , the day dawn of new year puts on the holiday clothing's youth men and women to need to pay new year's call mutually, meets needs to respectfully congratulate propitiously pleasant. Splendid attire's Tibetan to the nearby temple bowing to Buddha, or takes to the streets to sing in groups dances, but cannot do equally with our Han Nationality to the relatives and friends family 。
Tibetan New Year's first day morning, will come one “to snatch the water competition”. According to Tibetan national minority's tradition, the Zang calendar first day who snatches to the first barrel water, is “the liquid gold”; Second barrel Shui Ze is called “the discount for difference of amount of silver in coins”! Indicates that is propitious, is lucky, the source of wealth is billowing. But, because of the present along with the running water popularization, this kind of ancient custom desalinates gradually.
The third day activity by the religion, the literary style content primarily, transfers in the path, the roof to fill thick Sang Yan, the young people inserts all colors sutra streamer on the roof and the summit, prays rang the disaster, but the general farmland and pasture will also hold the new horse pack saddle ceremony, the horse racing, the tug-of-war, to throw and so on richly colorful recreational activity.
Experience in first lunar month 15 are Butter Lamp Festival, daytime, people to various temples bowing to Buddha pray; Night, Lhasa Bakuo St. holds the butter sculpture lantern festival, the full
May. 03, 2009
Introduction to Shoton
You would like to know the origin of Shoton! Let me tell you! Shoton Festival originated in the mid-11th century, when the Festival is a purely religious activity. Folk legend that the precepts of Buddhism are more than 300 articles, the most taboo is the killing murder. Warming as a result of the summer weather, vegetation growth, awakening of insects , all the recovery, during which monks go out to kill inevitable steps to life, in violation of "no killing" of the precepts. Therefore, the provisions of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan precepts in April-June period, the monks are only alone in the temple, closed quietly practice, known as the "" means "summer home" until the end of June lifting a ban before. Lifting a ban solution until the date of the system, one after another monk down the temple, secular people in order to reward the monks, brewing yogurt prepared for their picnic, held camping and Tibetan opera performances at the celebration. This is the origin of Shoton
