Tibetan people in Garze, Sichuan happily celebrate the Tibetan New Year

by koeniamr0805 on 2012-02-28 09:07:33

Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, February 22nd (reporters Yang Sun and Wenbo Dang) The 22nd is the first day of the Tibetan New Year - the year of the water dragon. Tibetan people in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province dressed up and went to the street to buy New Year goods, purchase books, watch song and dance performances, and celebrate the Tibetan New Year happily. At 10 a.m. on the 22nd, I saw at the Love Song Square in Kangding County that the staff of Xinhua Bookstore in Garze Prefecture and the library of Garze Prefecture were putting a large number of books neatly on the long table in the square. All kinds of Tibetan and Chinese books had just been put on display, attracting many people to come and select. I saw that the book titles of this New Year's book exhibition were mainly divided into local documents of Ganzi Prefecture, family health care, language dictionaries, popular novels, and audio-visual discs. Seventy-year-old Janggi Zhuoma and her ten-year-old grandson chose carefully in the tool book area, and finally they chose a "Xinhua Dictionary". Janggi Zhuoma smiled and said: "Today is the first day of the New Year, and I took my little grandson to the book fair in the square. He needs a dictionary for school, so I bought it for him as a New Year gift." Next to the Love Song Square, there was a prominent event announcement board, which wrote the contents and time arrangements of the Tibetan New Year cultural activities in Ganzi Prefecture. In addition to the daytime book fair, Nike Dunk Low Women, on the evening of the 22nd and 23rd, the Love Song Square will also hold "exhibition of original songs" and "Guozhuang dance performance", which are the most anticipated activities by the singing and dancing Tibetan people. During the New Year period, the Ganzi Prefecture Song and Dance Troupe performed artistic performances for the Tibetan New Year "to bring joy". The performing troupe set off from Kangding County on the 21st, marching and performing all the way. The artistic performance included songs, dances, clothing displays, and other contents. There were also many people coming and going on the streets of Kangding County to prepare New Year goods, some carrying the purchased candies, milk, fruits, peanuts, and other foods back home, while others were carefully selecting New Year clothes and gifts for their families. Zeren Zaxi's family in Old Yulin Village, Lucheng Town, Kangding County, had prepared all the necessary New Year goods before the New Year. On the afternoon of the 21st, many relatives of Zeren Zaxi's family came to his house. The men drank alcohol, ate meat, and chatted, while the women danced Guozhuang. In the evening, Zeren Zaxi's family gathered together to watch the Tibetan New Year Eve gala on Kamba TV. The Tibetan New Year is the most grand traditional festival of the Tibetan people in a year. The New Year celebration in Ganzi Prefecture...