[Explanation] The Spring Festival is approaching, the streets and alleys of Lhasa gradually have a New Year atmosphere, and the New Year's goods market is also becoming more and more lively.

Since Tibetans in farming areas including Shigatse need to start spring farming in January of the Tibetan calendar, the Snowy Plateau is about to usher in the Agricultural New Year one month earlier than the Tibetan New Year, and various special Tibetan New Year products are also available for consumers to buy.

  In a small shop along Beijing Road, one side is filled with all kinds of sweets, and the other side is piled with Tibetan special New Year's goods "kasai". "Kasai" is made of ghee, flour, sugar and other ingredients. necessities throughout the year.

Duo Pei rented the shop in advance and started selling Kasai. Although it has only been open for a few days, the business is already booming.

  [Concurrent] Merchant Duopei

  In the past, we fried "kasai" at home, and we couldn't buy ready-made ones outside. We have been selling them for 27 years.

The color and shape of "kasai" are increasing year by year. There were only about four styles before, but now there are more and more.

Now we fry it at home and then sell it, which brings convenience to everyone.

  [Explanation] In the Barkhor Mall, there are Tibetan couplets, auspicious sheep heads, Qiema boxes, wooden butter flowers, fragrant cloth and other Tibetan New Year's goods. Many citizens are busy buying their favorite products.

Dried peaches from Shannan, air-dried beef from Nagqu, wooden bowls from Shigatse... Vendors from all over Tibet have enriched the New Year’s Market.

The New Year’s goods that once needed to be made at home can now be purchased in a "one-stop" way when you go out.

  [Same period] Merchant Lausanne Gelie

  As "Solang Rosa" (agricultural New Year) approaches, the number of customers in my shop has increased these days. Since "Xiangbu" and "Longda" are pendants in our Tibetan homes, people who buy them are quite happy. many.

  [Explanation] New Year's goods are an important symbol of the New Year, which contains the long-cherished wish to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Different New Year products have different auspicious meanings, and online shopping also provides consumers with more choices.

No matter what and how they buy new year's goods, they all reflect people's expectations for the "year".

  Reported by Xie Mu Lhasa

Editor in charge: [Fang Jialiang]