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Tibet’s customs, folk customs, and special attractions

The Tibetan New Year, also known as the Tibetan Festival, is a traditional festival for Tibetan herdsmen, equivalent to the Spring Festival for the Han people. It is held every year at the beginning of the first lunar month and lasts for about a week. Middle-aged women who wear Lhasa like to wear a sleeveless robe on the outside during the Chinese New Year, covering the leather robe underneath, with the collar and sleeves turned out to reveal sky blue, purple and other plain shirts inside. Wear a rainbow-like "bangdian" around her waist, and wear a pair of home-made high-waisted Pulu-embellished woolen Tibetan boots (Sombalam) on her feet. Wearing "ba beads" made of red coral, earrings, rings, and "kouwu" on her head, she is fully "armed" and looks really good-looking. Elderly women do not wear jewelry, but wear bright red shirts. Regardless of whether they are middle-aged or elderly women, they all wear two braids tied with "tie Xiu". Young unmarried girls do not wear "bangdian", but braid their own braids. The colors of "tie show" are brighter, and their shirts are also of various colors. Girls in the city not only like to wear "Sombaram", they also wear a pair of better-style, polished leather shoes. Men like to wear "Tsering Genguo" (a Tibetan hat with a large rim at the front and back, and an embroidered satin on the top) or Jiefang leather hat, and a long robe. It's just that the color of the robe deepens with age. When fashionable men wear braids, they also wear black gold velvet boots. Eat On the night of the 29th, every family will have a meal of noodles, called "Gutu" in Tibetan. "Gu" means nine, and "Tu" means porridge. There are nine kinds of things to be wrapped in the dough. There are sun and moon made of noodles, which means the supreme dignity; there are magnetic pieces ("Gayu'er"), which means it is delicious and lazy to make; there are chili peppers, which means having a knife mouth; and wool, which means eating. The person who arrived was a lazy person; and the bread with horns, it is not difficult to imagine that it means that the person who eats it likes to lose his temper, etc. No matter who eats anything, they must spit it out on the spot, causing laughter in the room to enhance the mood. On the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the hostess brought the first bucket of water in the New Year and gave the whole family a meal of "Guandian" (mix hot highland barley wine with milk residue, ginseng fruit, and brown sugar, then slowly add tsampa, fried wheat grains, and A ginseng fruit cup with highland barley ears and a colorful flower board made of butter.) Recommended to everyone. When eating, grab a few and scatter them to the sky to express blessings. After the ceremony, eat oatmeal Tuba cooked with mutton, which is called "Zhuo Tu" in Tibetan. This is breakfast. At noon, you can eat vegetables, noodles or grab mutton or tsampa. In the evening, eat "Xiangzhai", which is to fry mutton cubes with ghee, cook them with curry and potato cubes mixed with hot ghee, and eat them on rice with the juice. This "curry rice" is one of the favorite foods of the Tibetan people. After the meal, everyone serves each other highland barley wine, drinks butter tea or sweet tea, and eats fried fruits. Play with krona ball. Some are like recreational balls, but the "ball" is an oblate wooden block, and it is played by hand, and the rules are completely different. Tibetan people, young and old, love to play. Poker cards. There are many tricks, including seven-card, four-card, three-card and other playing methods. Play chess. It is called "Mingma" in Tibetan and is similar to the chess board, but the opponents are the king and the pawn respectively.

Throw the dice. "Dice" is the same as "dice" in mainland China, but the gameplay is different and shells are used for counting. Kick shuttlecock, jump rope. Mostly girls play. Fastidious. The shuttlecock is made of eagle armpit hair, and small bells are hung under the Chinese copper coins. It makes a "squeaking" sound when kicked. "Boli", firecrackers. Mostly boys play. "Boli" is a game in which copper coins are thrown into holes dug at a fixed distance, but the rules of the game are not simple. It is a general custom to play until the fifth day of the Tibetan calendar. From the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, everything returned to normal.

The Tibetan Calendar Year, also known as the Tibetan Festival, is a traditional festival for Tibetan herdsmen. It is equivalent to the Spring Festival for the Han people. It is held every year at the beginning of the first lunar month and lasts for about a week. Middle-aged women who wear Lhasa like to wear a sleeveless robe on the outside during the Chinese New Year, covering the leather robe underneath, with the collar and sleeves turned out to reveal sky blue, purple and other plain shirts inside. Wear a rainbow-like "bangdian" around her waist, and wear a pair of home-made high-waisted Pulu-embellished woolen Tibetan boots (Sombalam) on her feet. Wearing "ba beads" made of red coral, earrings, rings, and "kouwu" on her head, she is fully "armed" and looks really good-looking. Elderly women do not wear jewelry, but wear bright red shirts. Regardless of whether they are middle-aged or elderly women, they all wear two braids tied with "tie Xiu". Young unmarried girls do not wear "bangdian", but braid their own braids. The colors of "tie show" are brighter, and their shirts are also of various colors. Girls in the city not only like to wear "Sombaram", they also wear a pair of better-style, polished leather shoes. Men like to wear "Tsering Genguo" (a Tibetan hat with a large rim at the front and back, and an embroidered satin on the top) or Jiefang leather hat, and a long robe. It's just that the color of the robe deepens with age. When fashionable men wear braids, they also wear black gold velvet boots. Eat On the night of the 29th, every family will have a meal of noodles, called "Gutu" in Tibetan. "Gu" means nine, and "Tu" means porridge. There are nine kinds of things to be wrapped in the dough. There are sun and moon made of noodles, which means the supreme dignity; there are magnetic pieces ("Gayu'er"), which means it is delicious and lazy to make; there are chili peppers, which means having a knife mouth; and wool, which means eating. The person who arrived was a lazy person; and the bread with horns, it is not difficult to imagine that it means that the person who eats it likes to lose his temper, etc. No matter who eats anything, they must spit it out on the spot, causing roars of laughter to add to the mood. On the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the hostess brought the first bucket of water in the New Year and gave the whole family a meal of "Guandian" (mix hot highland barley wine with milk residue, ginseng fruit, and brown sugar, then slowly add tsampa, fried wheat grains, and A bowl of ginseng fruit, topped with highland barley ears and a colorful board made of butter). Respect to everyone.

When eating, grab a few and scatter them to the sky to express blessings. After the ceremony, eat oatmeal Tuba cooked with mutton, which is called "Zhuo Tu" in Tibetan. This is breakfast. At noon, you can eat vegetables, noodles or grab mutton or tsampa. In the evening, eat "Xiangzhai", which is to fry mutton cubes in ghee, cook them with curry and potato cubes mixed with hot ghee, and eat them on rice with the juice. This "curry rice" is one of the favorite foods of the Tibetan people. After the meal, everyone serves each other highland barley wine, drinks butter tea or sweet tea, and eats fried fruits. Play with krona ball. Some are like recreational balls, but the "ball" is an oblate wooden block, and it is played by hand, and the rules are completely different. Tibetan people, young and old, love to play. Poker cards. There are many tricks, including seven-card, four-card, three-card and other playing methods. Play chess. It is called "Mingma" in Tibetan and is similar to the chess board, but the opponents are the king and the pawn respectively.

Throw the dice. "Dice" is the same as "dice" in mainland China, but the gameplay is different and shells are used for counting. Kick shuttlecock, jump rope. Mostly girls play. Fastidious. The shuttlecock is made of eagle armpit hair, and small bells are hung under the Chinese copper coins. It makes a "squeaking" sound when kicked. "Boli", firecrackers. Mostly boys play. "Boli" is a game in which copper coins are thrown into holes dug at a fixed distance, but the rules of the game are not simple. It is a general custom to play until the fifth day of the Tibetan calendar. From the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, everything returned to normal.