March 1,2017--Losar,or Tibetan New Year is the most important festival in a year for Tibetans. Then what is different in the way they celebrate Losar from the Spring Festival? And what do they do from the New Year’s Eve to the fifth day in the New Year?
March 1,2017--The picture shows a Tibetan villager brewing highland barley wine.
Tibetan people usually begin to celebrate New Year on the evening of the lunar Dec. 29th in Tibetan calendar, when they eat dough balls called “gutu”, because “gu” in “gutu” means “9” in Tibetan and “tu” means food made from flour. The dough balls may contain stones, wool, chili, charcoal or coins.
Different contents symbolize different meanings, namely, wool stands for kindness, stone for ruthlessness, charcoal for cruelty and coin for wealth. Everyone would spit out what they get from the dough and it usually causes a laugh.
