What's the name of Tibetan New Year?

Tibetan New Year is the biggest and most meaningful festival in Tibet. The first day in year of the snake this year is February 24th. However, the Tibetan calendar year varies from place to place, forming a rich and colorful festival culture.

The New Year in Lhasa begins on the 29th of the Tibetan calendar. On this night, every Tibetan family will get together to eat "ancient pictures" (dough and meat porridge), and then light a fire and set off firecrackers outdoors to drive away the evil spirits of the old year.

February 23rd is the Tibetan New Year's Eve. On this day, in addition to housing and personal hygiene, families should also prepare a grain harvest bucket called "chariots and horses" to wish people and animals a bumper harvest in the new year.

The first day of the Tibetan calendar was ushered in by the funny "Zhega" rap in the early hours of the morning. Early this morning, every household will go to the river and wellhead to grab the first sip of water. When the sun rises, neighbors respect each other for horses and chariots and highland barley wine to celebrate the New Year.

The really lively activities of the Tibetan New Year began the next day. Men, women and children dressed in festive costumes, walked the streets, visited relatives and friends, and the urban and rural areas were full of songs and laughter and colorful. On the third day, people all over Lhasa hung prayer flags on roofs and hilltops, and colorful folk culture and religious activities continued until the fifteenth day of the Tibetan calendar.

Tibetan New Year is based on Tibetan calendar. According to records, before 100 BC, Tibetans had their own calendars. At that time, the days, months and years were calculated according to the moon's profit and loss. In the Yuan Dynasty, Tibetans formed a unique calendar of five elements in heavenly stems and earthly branches, and adopted the Mongolian calendar to designate January 1st of the Tibetan calendar as the New Year.

Xigaze area in Tibet is the main grain producing area in Tibet. In order to adapt to the local climatic conditions and agricultural arrangements, people celebrate the New Year on the Tibetan calendar 1 February1day. Different from Lhasa, people eat sheep's head, enema, porridge and wine after the first meal.

Nyingchi Ministry of Industry in eastern Tibet celebrates the New Year in Tibetan calendar 10/0/day. It is said that when Britain invaded Tibet in 1904, when workers and cloth-clothers went out, they regretted that they could not drink highland barley wine for the New Year, eat snacks or bake loose fire, so they celebrated the Tibetan New Year ahead of schedule.

The Ministry of Industry is densely forested, and dogs are local people's best partners, so the most distinctive feature of the Ministry of Industry during the New Year is to invite dogs to dinner. On New Year's Eve, the host laid out New Year's food and invited the dog to taste it. It is said that experienced dogs are very solemn at this time, sniffing all the food such as Baba, meat and milk residue before deciding what to eat. It is said that what dogs eat indicates a bumper harvest in agriculture and animal husbandry in the coming year.

In Amdo, a plateau in northern Tibet, the Tibetan New Year is the same as Lhasa, but the customs and habits have strong pastoral characteristics. In the early morning of the first day, the men got together and ran to the cowshed or sheepfold to see the lying method of cattle and sheep. Cattle and sheep head in any direction, southeast, northwest, northwest, will mean that this direction is auspicious in the coming year, so they are tied with colorful flowers on their heads and bodies to drive them to take a few steps in this direction.

The Tibetan New Year in Ali, Qamdo, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and other Tibetan areas also has its own characteristics, which embodies the rich connotation of Tibetan traditional festival culture.