Tibetan four major festivals:

1, Snowdon Festival

Snowdon Festival is the most grand and largest festival in Tibet. Xuedong Festival that is to eat yogurt festival, the people will give the monks offer yogurt, request to touch the top of the blessing, and now gradually evolved into a set of traditional exhibition of Buddha, cultural performances, sports competitions, tourism and leisure as one of the festivals. Here you can eat pure yogurt, without any additives Oh ~ this festival is in addition to the Tibetan New Year, the larger scale of the festival.

2, bathing festival

Bathing festival in Tibet has at least seven or eight hundred years of history. In these seven days, from children to the elderly, all have to go down to the river to bathe, it is said that these seven days of the river water has eight advantages, that is, a sweet, two cool, three soft, four light, five clear, six does not stink, seven drink does not damage the throat, eight drink does not hurt the abdomen.

3, Ghee Lantern Festival

Ghee Lantern Festival this night, lanterns to the ancient Barkhor Street dressed up in a beautiful and magical world. Those made of ghee and flour plus a variety of dyes made of ghee lamps around the Barkhor Street, when the night comes, thousands of lights at the same time, ghee lights up, ghee colorful sculpture suddenly come to life, so that the whole street glittering, brilliant.

4, Wang Guo Festival

Wang Guo Festival is the Tibetan farmers celebrate the harvest festival, popular in the Tibet autonomous region of Lhasa, Rikaze, Shannan and other places. "Wang Guo" is to circle around the harvest in sight of the field, as an expression of prayers and blessings for a good harvest. Festival time with the changes in agricultural events around the change, generally in the barley after yellow ripe, the first two or three days before the start of the harvest held.

Tibet's Specialized Festivals: Lantern Burning Festival

The festival is held on the 15th day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar in Lhasa. At that time, the temple lamas and the people, with colorful ghee pinch molded into a variety of ghee flowers, hanging in the Showa Temple on both sides of the pre-built on the flower rack. Night falls, after the lanterns lit, like a group of stars landing. Lanterns painted with flowers, fairy characters, birds and animals. The people watching the lanterns sing and dance under the lanterns all night long.