New Year Customs in Linzhi, Tibet and bomi county

1, the New Year custom in bomi county, Linzhi, Tibet is mainly Songzong Horse Racing Festival.

Linzhi Festival in Tibet. Song zong horse racing festival

Time: March of Tibetan calendar 15.

Songzong Horse Racing Festival is a blessing ceremony held in Qulin Temple, Zhaxi, Songzong Town, bomi county from March 15 to 16 every year in Tibetan calendar. It is a traditional folk activity that integrates religious activities and cultural and sports activities. At the Horse Racing Festival, people put on Hada and saffron and held wonderful equestrian performances. Others dressed in uniform national costumes in the village as a unit, hand in hand in a circle, spontaneously performed Bomi Pot Village, and thousands of people danced together, which was magnificent and lively.

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2. New Year festivals in Linzhi, Tibet include:

Linzhi Festival in Tibet II. The Tibetan New Year

Time: Tibetan calendar 65438+1 October1

The Tibetan New Year is the biggest and most solemn festival of the Tibetan people in a year. Entering the Tibetan calendar1February, people began to make a series of traditional and complicated preparations for the New Year. (cultivating highland barley seedlings, frying "Gexi", brewing highland barley wine, cleaning, placing offerings, drawing auspicious symbols, etc. ) To be happy and auspicious in the new year, live a long life. The night of "Gutu" in the Tibetan calendar (two nights before the Tibetan New Year) kicked off the Tibetan calendar.

On the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, people greet the Tibetan New Year with the sound of "Zhaga" (now played on a tape recorder). In this sound, old people beat for good luck. This morning, people put on new clothes, sat on brand-new card mats and ate "auspicious rice" made of ginseng fruit, ghee and sugar. After that, the family and neighbors held up "chariots and horses" (a barrel of harvest) and said "Tashi is happy" to each other, wishing good luck. In the afternoon, the family got together behind closed doors and enjoyed the New Year. On the second day of the second year, relatives and friends began to visit each other and pay New Year greetings, which lasted for half a month.

Linzhi Festival in Tibet. Balqude Songzhu Festival

Time: April in Tibetan calendar

Balqude Pine Bamboo Festival is a religious and Buddhist activity organized by Balqude Temple in Langxian County, the largest temple in Linzhi area, in April of each Tibetan calendar, with jumping into the gods as the main content. The festival lasts for four days, the first three days are dance performances, and the fourth day is the peak of the living Buddha. Jumping into the gods, called "Qiang Mu" in Tibetan, is a special ceremony held in temples. Monks wearing ghost faces and colorful cassocks jumped into the front of the main temple. This is a religious dance with dense tantric colors, flexible movements, mysterious and enthusiastic dance, heavy intensity, relaxed humor, gorgeous solemnity and ferocious majesty, which embodies the monks' worship of gods and buddhas and their prayers for happiness in this life and reincarnation in the next life.

Linzhi Festival in Tibet. Today's God Shan Ying Worship Festival

Time: April 30th, Tibetan calendar

Today's sacred mountain is said to be the practice place of Barton Sinrumiwoche, the founder of Bonism, and the holy land of Bonism. According to legend, more than 600 years ago, a Bonny Lama named Duozengre Bazhuse forgot to eat and sleep in order to save the Sega Gengqin Temple on this mountain. After his death, he will turn into 65,438+000 eagles in the Tibetan calendar on April 30th every year, circling the temple three times and never leaving. Since then, people have regarded the eagle as a god and designated April 30 of the Tibetan calendar as the "Eagle Worship Festival". On this day, villagers, men and women, old and young, who live around this mountain, will put on festive costumes and come to Sejiagengqin Temple from all directions, jump up the cheerful "Cheba" (Kampot Dance), hold a song and dance competition to welcome the arrival of the Hundred Eagle, and pray for abundant crops and prosperity of people and animals.

Linzhi Festival and Basongcuo Lake Festival in Tibet

Time: April of Tibetan calendar 15.

April in Tibetan calendar, especially April 15 in Tibetan calendar, is said to be the anniversary of Sakyamuni's birth, enlightenment and death. Buddhists from all directions gathered in Basong Lake to make a pilgrimage to the lake clockwise, and there were various folk celebrations. In addition to the Basongcuo Lake Festival, the nearby Laba Temple also held a grand sacrificial ceremony, and the temple was surrounded by tents from farmers and herdsmen in Jiali County and Jura District. One is to attend the annual Fa conference, and the other is to come to see the "flying tent". On the right side of buddhist nun, there is a fixed hillside in the upper part of Zari (meaning Caoshan). A few minutes before the start of the Fa Conference, a cloud of white clouds slowly descended from the air, people were singing and dancing, nuns were ringing bells and drums, and the whole audience was jubilant.

Linzhi Festival in Tibet. Xiba Douxiong Festival

Time: June in Tibetan calendar 15.

Xiba Douxiong Festival in Bomi Duoji Township is a traditional folk activity held in Xiba Village at the foot of a local sacred mountain on June 15 of the Tibetan calendar every year. The festival has a history of hundreds of years, with colorful activities and unique forms. Fighting bears, making bears and releasing bears are the main methods, and sketches and folk songs and dances are integrated to instill in people the idea of protecting wild animals and ecological balance, which embodies the survival concept of local people living in harmony with nature since ancient times.

Linzhi Festival in Tibet. Menba Mountain Festival

Time: Summer (June to July)

Memba people believe that the holy mountain is the road to heaven. In order to make the soul ascend to heaven after death, it is necessary to be familiar with the road to heaven before death, so the religious activity of "turning mountains" came into being from the worship of the holy mountain. The main sacred mountains that Medog Menba people often turn to are Sanduo Riguang, Budasupeng and Gandinin. In summer (June-July), it takes a day to walk around the foot of the Sanli Mountain. But at this time, it just turns around the foot of Sanduo White Mountain. You can turn around the foot of the mountain every day. In winter, people began to climb to the daytime peak of Sanduo, and circled the peak three times a day. People believe that the soul can only ascend to heaven after death after crossing more than three mountains during the day.

Linzhi Festival in Tibet. Langxian Fruit Festival

Time: July in Tibetan calendar

In Tibetan, "looking for fruit" means turning to crops. In the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, every year in July, when crops turn yellow, every village will hold a grand fruit festival. It is said that this festival originated in the period of Bude Gong Jie, King of Tibet around the 2nd century A.D., and has a history of 1700 years. On the day of the Fruit Festival, one person from each family, dressed in festive costumes, walked clockwise along the village land under the leadership of a prestigious person in the village. First, people who burn incense to clear the way, then people who recite scriptures, then riding men in ancient costumes and red spike hats, and finally men, women and children in the village. People marched slowly, watching the crops grow, shouting prayers and singing warm and melodious songs. The scene was very warm and the atmosphere was extremely solemn. After turning over the farmland, people started a special picnic by boiling tea on the lawn next to the field in the shadow of willow trees.

Linzhi Festival in Tibet. Nianggulasu Festival

Time: August in Tibetan calendar 10.

"Nianggulasu" is a transliteration in Tibetan, which means "Nianggulasu" and "Lasu" means "welcoming the gods". Niang Gu La Su Festival is one of the important traditional festivals of Bonism with a history of more than 600 years. On August 10, Tibetan Year of the Horse, people from Kasemu, Nichi, osawa and Zipu villages in Linzhi County and religious believers who came to worship held religious activities in Kasemu village, including offering sacrifices to gods, jumping "Bo" and yak dancing, mainly to exorcise evil spirits, celebrate a bumper harvest and pray for good weather. God's festivals usually last two or three days.

Nyingchi Festival X in Tibet, Ministry of Industry New Year

Time: Tibetan calendar 10 month 1 day

The New Year of the Ministry of Industry is the most grand and lively traditional program in Linzhi area. Unlike most Tibetan New Year's days, Kampot New Year falls on the Tibetan calendar 10/day every year. Legend has it that a long time ago, the Ministry of Industry faced foreign invasion, and the young people of the Ministry of Industry tribe were about to go to the battlefield to meet the enemy. In order to encourage soldiers to fight the enemy bravely, the local people advanced the Tibetan New Year to 10/0/day of the Tibetan calendar, and this custom has continued to this day.

The New Year's Day of the Ministry of Industry embodies the ancient and strong primitive sacrificial custom in Linzhi area and the Tibetan folk characteristics of the Ministry of Industry, which is generally divided into several steps, such as "exorcising ghosts", "inviting dogs to eat", "eating noodles", "carrying water" and "offering sacrifices to the goddess of harvest". From the first day of junior high school, most men ride horses, shoot arrows, wrestle, hold rocks and so on during the day. Besides singing for knights and archers, most women get together and play various games. In the evening, there is a bonfire on the grassland and farmland, and a wooden barrel is placed by the fire. Everyone who came to dance brought a pot of highland barley wine to a big barrel, and then surrounded the bonfire. People danced all night while drinking, and the scene was very lively.

3. Brief introduction of bomi county in Linzhi area

Bomi county is located in Linzhi, Tibet, at the foot of the Himalayas, with beautiful environment and charming scenery. The biggest feature here is that water resources are very rich, forming many magnificent canyons, breeding many green Woods and grasslands, and having the reputation of "South of Snow Country" and "Tibet Switzerland". There are many rare birds and animals here, such as roe deer, sika deer, red panda, otter and black-necked crane. There are precious spruce, gastrodia elata, cordyceps, Fritillaria, etc., which are rich in resources, allowing visitors to get close to these rare animals and plants and feel the charm of nature.

In Bomi, visitors can see the Midui Glacier, which is known as the most beautiful glacier in China, and Bomi section of the most beautiful scenic avenue in China. No matter riding, driving or hiking, you can enjoy different scenery, and local parking lots, camping areas, fences and other facilities are constantly improving, providing convenience for tourists.

There is the Midui Glacier, which is 6800 meters above sea level. It is known as a world-class ice waterfall, and each waterfall is more than 800 meters high. There are also famous glaciers such as Harqin, Zepu, Ruoguo, Guxiang and Langqiu, which are worthy of being called "the hometown of Tibetan kings and glaciers".

Bomigang township has Linzhi spruce forest, with towering ancient trees and extremely rich animal and plant resources, which is known as one of the top ten most beautiful forests in China. Visitors can feel the vastness and vitality of the forest, feel the harmonious relationship between themselves and nature, let their tired hearts fly and get close to nature. There is also the charming and splendid Bomi peach blossom ditch, which is changeable and refreshing. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, in the distance is a glacier snow mountain wrapped in silver; Trees are lush and full of spring; The flowing water in the mountain stream is crystal clear and flowing happily; Wild peach trees grow freely in the ditch, and peach blossoms are dotted with birds and flowers, which makes tourists feel the charming charm of "Jiangnan, Tibet".