December 5th is the New Year of Workclothing in Linzhi, Tibet.
Xire Dundan from Linzhi is currently studying at Tibet Nationalities University in Xianyang, Shaanxi.
On that day, he was dressed in Gongbu Tibetan festive costumes and celebrated the New Year with more than 50 Linzhi Gongbu students on campus.
According to traditional customs, the students offered Chema and Hada New Year greetings to each other, and blessings continued one after another.
Subsequently, the students organized tug-of-war, kneading tsampa, and stepping on balloons on the football field to welcome the new year together.
Gongbu New Year is the first day of October in the Tibetan calendar and the earliest New Year in Tibet. During this period, local people will wear festive costumes with Gongbu characteristics, not only "inviting the dog to a banquet", "sacrificing to the goddess of harvest", and carrying the first bucket of water. ”And other characteristic folk customs, there will also be a ringing arrow competition, arrow dance performances, etc., to inherit the long history of industrial cloth culture.
(Zhao Yanbai Ma Yuzhen Gongqu produced by Wu Rui)
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