Bathing Festival
The locals call the bathing festival -- Ghamarijie, it is a special local festival only in Tibet. This festival happens on from the 6th day through to 12th day on the seventh month by Tibetan calendar, lasting one whole week.
The local legend goes this way: Long ago, a plague became rampant in the snowland, countless people died of it, the Compassion Budha saked some goddesses to give people some medicine, the medicine was a liquird mixed with the river water, all people sufferring dreamed of that, and saw a plague tortured girl walk into the river and have a bath inside, when she walked our, she became beautiful and seemed not to be infected by the plague, so the next day, people passed the dream from mouth to mouth, all sick people went to river and have bath inside, and at last all people got recovered from sickness.from then on, every year , people will have a bath in river no matter if they are sick or not. By this way, the locals thanks the Compassion Buddha and gradually a special festival took shape in the snow land.
In fact, there are some reasons fro people to have bath at that duration, 1)in winter and spring, the water in river and lake is so cold that nobody dare to go and have a swim inside, 2)in summer time, the water is dirty and very unclear because of the big rainfall. 3)the bathing happens just after the rainfall (at the ending of the summer and the early period of Fall, the water in river became clean and a little warm.
On the bathing period, people will set up tents by the river and enjoy a whole day thereuntil the sunset, having bath in river, singing, and dancing, it is a happy party for locals to have a get - together.
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