Nakchu Horse Race Festival
Chachen horse race festival at Nakchu is a very typical festival in Northern Tibet, about this festival, it could be traced bac to the 8 century when Gar Family was in power ruling Tibet on behalf of the Kings of Tibet Tubo dynasty.
This festival always happens on August every year. Tibetans is a nationaty on horse back, they treasure horses as their friends and as one of the family member, they never kill horses for meat, because they thought horses are the messager of the God.
Nakchu horse race festival is the grandest festival in northern Tibet. When the day comes, the romands people would gather in Nakchu, grandly dressed. Tents of any kind scatter across the grassland like flowers bloom.
In the days, such games as horse racing, yak racing, wrestling, stone lifting, riffle/arrow shooting on horse back, and talk - show, show of the art of horse riding will be held, for romands, it is a good time to chat with each other, change goods and buy necessities. And also it is the good time for young people to know each other and fall in love.
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