People pray for bumper harvest during Ongkor Festival celebrations in SW China's Xizang-Tibet Online

People pray for bumper harvest during Ongkor Festival celebrations in SW China's Xizang

July 27, 2026Source: Xinhua

Farmers dressed in traditional attire pray for a bumper harvest beside a farmland during the Ongkor Festival at Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, July 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
An elder dressed in traditional attire offers highland barley wine to people before celebrating the Ongkor Festival at Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, July 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
Farmers dressed in traditional attire parade around a farmland during the Ongkor Festival at Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, July 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
Farmers dressed in traditional attire parade around a farmland during the Ongkor Festival at Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, July 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
Children dressed in traditional attire parade around a farmland during the Ongkor Festival at Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, July 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
Farmers dressed in traditional attire parade around a farmland during the Ongkor Festival at Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, July 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
Farmers dressed in traditional attire parade around a farmland during the Ongkor Festival at Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, July 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
Farmers dressed in traditional attire parade around a farmland during the Ongkor Festival at Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, July 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)

The Tashi Chodan Community in Shannan, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, celebrated the annual Ongkor Festival, a national intangible cultural heritage, on Friday. Local people paraded around the farmland to pray for a bumper harvest during the festival, whose specific date varies according to the ripening time of crops in different regions.

People pray for bumper harvest during Ongkor Festival celebrations in SW China's Xizang

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