As the Tibetan New Year approaches, every household is busy preparing new year goods, similar to the Spring Festival of the Han people.

In order to celebrate the Tibetan New Year, people of all ethnic groups in Tibet, mainly Tibetans, usually start preparing "Qema", frying "Kasai", making new clothes, buying candies, snacks, etc. from the beginning of December in the Tibetan calendar.

This period of time is the busiest.

On the evening of December 29th in the Tibetan calendar, people generally eat "Gutu" (noodle dumplings) and perform exorcism activities, which symbolizes getting rid of the old and establishing the new, eliminating disasters and avoiding disasters.

On December 30, every household has layers of various fried fruits, "chema" filled with wheat and tsampa, highland barley seedlings, and cakes painted in various colors on the kitchen cabinets or tables.

Sheep head or noodles, candy, butter tea, highland barley wine.

There are also some interesting activities, such as housewives giving cooked "Guandian" (highland barley wine with brown sugar and crushed milk residue) to family members sleeping in bed at midnight.

The meanings of the 8 items are as follows (the items are slightly different according to local customs): sun and moon (made into the shape of the sun and moon) - auspicious.

Chili Pepper - He is a very powerful talker. You can also think of this person as having a sharp mouth and a tofu heart.

Salt - laziness.

Porcelain - delicious and lazy to make.

Wool - good-hearted and kind-hearted.

Highland barley - auspicious.

Charcoal - indicates that this person has a dark heart.

In addition, a small noodle doll with a small head and a big belly must be made. Whoever it appears in his bowl will be punished by braying like a donkey or pretending to be a dog, and must drink nine tablespoons of noodle soup.

The whole family gathered together, everyone talked and laughed, setting off a climax of joy.

Next, the housewife gives each person a piece of tsampa mixed with water. Each person holds it with their hands and touches the whole body (but not the forehead). At the same time, she prays for good health, good luck, and no illness or disaster in the new year.

After finishing, squeeze hard with your hands and leave finger prints on the tsampa.

Pour the leftover Gutu into a broken earthen jar, and then put the tsampa with fingerprints on it into the earthen jar together with the devil that had already been made with tsampa.

Then the "ghost exorcism" ceremony is performed, which means peace and security in the coming year.