Butter flower is a special form of sculpture art. The Bon religion originated in Tibet. In 641 AD, when Princess Wencheng went to Tibet to marry Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo, she brought a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha with her and enshrined it in the Jokhang Temple. This Buddha statue originally had no crown. After Tsongkhapa succeeded in learning Buddhism, he offered a lotus-shaped "Dharma Protector" on the head of the Buddha, a "shawl" on the body, and a bouquet of "butter flowers". This is the origin of butter flowers. . Kumbum Monastery is the birthplace of Tsongkhapa. Soon the butter flower was introduced here and was promoted and developed in Kumbum Monastery. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, after this oil sculpture technique was introduced to Kumbum Monastery, local artists carefully worked on it for a long time. High artistic attainments have been achieved through research and development. Tibetan religious people have the custom of donating butter to temples, which is generally only used for lighting Buddhist lamps and for monks to eat. Before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the Tibetan calendar year, they send pure white butter to Kumbum Monastery. The monks in the temple knead various mineral dyes into it to make molding materials, and then set it up in a cold room. shape. In order to prevent the ghee from melting due to body temperature and affecting the shape during production, they often put their hands into the biting snow water to cool down. During the marriage between Tang and Tibet, Princess Wencheng married Songtsen Gampo, and the statue of Buddha Sakyamuni was brought from the capital of the Tang Dynasty to Ramoche Temple in Tibet. When her clothes were wet with tears and she couldn't restrain the pain of missing her relatives, she came to the statue of Buddha, burned incense and knelt down to express her feelings from afar. Later, after Princess Jincheng entered Tibet, she moved the statue of Buddha to the magnificent Jokhang Temple for worship. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of this year, when believers presented offerings to the Buddha, they lined up in a queue, and among the six-colored offerings, only flowers were missing. So I decided to use butter, which is available in every household, as raw material to make butter flowers that are no different from flowers. History In 641 AD, when the Tang Dynasty married Tubo, Princess Wencheng brought a 12-year-old life-size statue of Sakying Muni to Lhasa. Later, the statue was enshrined in the Jokhang Temple. In order to show respect, the Tibetan people dedicated in front of the Buddha statue. tribute. According to traditional Indian Buddhist customs. There are six kinds of tributes offered to Buddha and Bodhisattvas, namely flowers, incense, holy water, incense, fruits and Buddha lamps. But at that time, the grass was withered and the flowers were gone, so I couldn't pick flowers, so I had to throw butter into a bouquet and present it to the Buddha. Butter flower is a kind of oil sculpture handicraft, using butter as the main raw material. Ghee is a creamy food of Tibetan and other herdsmen on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is a yellow-white grease extracted from milk after repeated stirring. This kind of oil is in solid form, soft, delicate, pure in color, fragrant and highly plastic. The handicrafts it creates have the characteristics of lifelike images, bright colors, exquisiteness and exquisiteness. According to legend, Master Tsongkhapa had a strange dream one night. He dreamed that thorns turned into lamps, weeds turned into flowers, and countless rare treasures, all colorful and dazzling. After waking up, in order to recreate the wonderful dream, he immediately organized art monks to use butter to shape various flowers, trees and rare treasures. Along with countless butter lamps, they are worshiped in front of the Buddha. The pastry art and the 15th Lantern Festival have been introduced to Kumbum Monastery, the birthplace of the Gelug Sect, for hundreds of years. At first, the content of the butter flower was monotonous and the production was rough. Later, two butter flower courtyards were built one after another to specialize in cultivating butter flower monks. With their sincerity to the Buddha and their persistent pursuit of art, the art monks of the Shangxiahuayuan learn from each other in various aspects of oil sculpture skills, learn from each other's strengths and complement each other's weaknesses, and renovate their patterns every year, with ever-changing content and themes.