tibet new year

Tibet new year

It is the first festival in the year, and the grandest one. Several days before the festival, people are busy on cleaning, painting, and decorating their houses, a black scorpion is to be drawn on the front gate or on the wall, which means driving away the ghosts and evils coming to the family, and which can protect and bless the family. A lot of good things are prepared for the coming new year day.

On the night of Dec.29, every family will have a Gutu banquet, the so -- called Gutu is made of wheat flour. When people are preparing the Gutu, they will wrap some thing inside -- atone, salt, charcoal, wool, book paper, coin and hot pepper, and so on, different thing has different meaning, white stone means pure, charcoal means bad heart, book paper means wisdom...family members spend the night in happy mood. After Gutu banquet, the family will hold a ceremony to send the ghost in their home away by puting some of the left food by the road, then set firecracers to expel the ghosts.

On the very early morning of the first day in the new year, the househostress will get up early to make the first bucket pf water and make breakfast for the whole family while others are sleeping sound. In the first day, family members will stay together, no visit to other people and family, they do some local way to thank the God for bring them good life.

From the second day, people will go and visit friends, enjoy the happy days by dancing, singing songs, watching the local opera show.

It is the same as Han's New year, the Tibet new year will last 15 days.

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