What is Tibetan culture?

1. Language: Tibetans have their own language and writing. Tibetan language belongs to the Tibetan branch of Sino-Tibetan language family of Tibeto-Burman language family, which is divided into Tibetan, Kang and Amdo dialects with characters, while Jiarong Tibetan is rarely a dialect without characters.

2. Tibetan:

As a written communication tool for Tibetan people, Tibetan has a long history, second only to Chinese in China. It is a phonetic symbol, belonging to the consonant type, which is divided into three parts: consonant letters, vowel symbols and punctuation marks. Among them, there are 30 consonants, 4 vowels and 5 reverse letters.

3. Literature:

Tibetan literature is rich and colorful, including writers' literature and folk literature, which ranks among the ethnic minorities in China. The Biography of King Gesar is a heroic epic with folk rap style and the longest known rap epic in the world.

4. Clothing:

The costumes of Tibetan men and women are intact. Different areas have different clothes. Men's wear is unrestrained; Women's clothing is elegant and unique, especially jewelry and gold jade as accessories, forming a unique style of plateau women.

The basic characteristics of Tibetan costumes are long sleeves, wide waist, long skirts and boots. This largely depends on the ecological environment in which the Tibetan people live and the production and lifestyle formed on this basis.

Wearing this kind of clothes with large structure can be used as a quilt to keep out the cold at night; The sleeves of the robe are wide and the arms can be stretched freely. When the temperature rises during the day, you can remove an arm to facilitate heat dissipation and body temperature regulation. Therefore, taking off the sleeves has formed the unique style of Tibetan costumes.

5. Name:

After Songtsan Gampo established the Tubo Dynasty, the heroes were divided into territories and titles, and people put domain names before their own names to show that they were families with status.

Ordinary people have no surnames, only first names. The first name is four words, such as Doji Zidan and Chanzeng Quzha. For convenience, people only use two words to abbreviate.

For example, Doji Zidan, abbreviated as Chanzeng Quzha, is single. It is more common to use words such as "one" or "three" or "first" or "last" as abbreviations, but it is not common to use words such as "two" or "four" as abbreviations.

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