According to legend, Zong Kaba, the ancestor of the Yellow Sect, once offered butter sculptures and a large number of lamps and butter lamps to the statue of Sakyamuni in Jokhang Temple. This is the origin of butter lanterns in later generations. During the Lantern Festival, there are? Jump? As well as other cultural activities, twenty or thirty actors wore masks and embroidered robes, singing and dancing with the accompaniment of instrumental music such as tweeters, suona, cowhide drums and gongs and drums.
In the evening, the temple is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and the main street is set up with shelves to display butter sculptures. Butter sculptures are made of ghee and have various bright colors. There are flowers, fruits, birds and animals, horses and cattle, pavilions and pavilions, which are extremely exquisite. Guihua Temple in Diqing, Yunnan, East Chikulinji, etc. They all hang snuff like major temples in Tibetan areas, which are considerable in scale and very lively.