Wangguo Festival is Wangguo Festival. "Wang" refers to crops, which is called "Wangka" or "Xingka" in Tibetan, and "Guo" means to circle, that is, to circle around the crops with a promising harvest. It is a folk custom of Tibetan farmers to celebrate the harvest. It was first popular in the Yarlung Zangbo River valley and then widely distributed in agricultural areas and forest areas in Tibet, such as Lhasa, Shannan, Shigatse, Linzhi, Qamdo and Ali. There is no fixed date for the Fruit Festival, which is usually held when the grain is ripe.
Wangguo Festival is an activity with a whole set of religious sacrificial ceremonies. During the festival, local Tibetans put on costumes, carried the "Harvest Tower" made of green pears and wheat ears, and held slogans and colorful flags to move in the fields. After the transfer, cultural and sports activities such as horse racing, acting, singing and dancing will be held. On the morning of the first fruit festival, the villagers dressed in new clothes and portable lunch boxes, carrying butter tea and highland barley wine on their backs, were ready to participate in the parade.
before the procession, the villagers started to turn to temples, simmer mulberry (burn incense) and hold a series of religious ceremonies according to the order of villages, and the square in front of the temples looked solemn and lively. At this time, there will be villagers carrying highland barley wine to toast the people who turn to the fields one by one to show their good wishes and make the atmosphere seem to be heroic for the soldiers before going out to war.
At the beginning of the parade, a guard of honor composed of lamas and old peasants held high the Buddha statue, carried scriptures on their backs and blew the Buddha's name, thanking God for bringing people a good year with good weather. At the end of the procession are eight Tibetan men dressed in costumes, wearing red hats and carrying bows and arrows. Every time they walk, they stop to sing and dance.
At dusk, the team that changed fields returned to the edge of the village, and the team had to make a circle around the village. On the roofs of people on the road, there will be an old lady holding Baba in one hand and "Dada" (auspicious arrow) in the other, constantly shaking in the direction of the field-changing team, indicating that it is lucky to attract wealth.
Go back to the village and hold mass cultural and sports activities in the square, including Tibetan opera, singing and dancing, horse racing, archery and tug-of-war, and compete with each other for skills. Finally, the team returned to the starting point, next to the village temple, and held the last religious ceremony. At that time, the drums were ringing and flying, and the one-day fruit festival parade came to an end.