Is the 2021 Tibetan New Year the same as the Spring Festival? Is there any difference in the specific festival time?
The Tibetan New Year and the Spring Festival in 2021 are both on February 12, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar, which is a rare phenomenon.However, because the two New Years are essentially different, the ways of celebrating are also very different.Most ethnic groups celebrate the Spring Festival.
Introduction to the Tibetan New Year
The so-called Tibetan New Year is the New Year celebrated by ethnic minorities in Tibet over the years.It is different from our Spring Festival.The New Year in Tibet is the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar.People in Lhasa have been preparing for the New Year in a planned and step-by-step manner since the twelfth month of the Tibetan calendar.Air-dried and fresh beef and mutton, ghee, ginseng fruit, and highland barley wine are the food that must be prepared for the New Year.Starting from mid-December, a variety of Tibetan-style cakes and other foods will be prepared.
Introduction to the Spring Festival and the New Year
The Spring Festival, that is, the Lunar New Year, commonly known as New Year, New Year, New Year, etc., is also called New Year or New Year orally.The Spring Festival has a long history and evolved from the prayers for the first year of the year in ancient times.All things originate from the sky, and humans originate from their ancestors.Praying for the New Year, offering sacrifices, and respecting the ancestors of the heavens and the ancestors, it is also to repay the origin and reverse the beginning.The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in its inheritance and development.During the Spring Festival, various activities to celebrate the Spring Festival are held all over the country, with strong regional characteristics.The main content of these activities is removing the old and making the new, exorcising evil spirits, worshipping gods and ancestors, and praying for the New Year.
Is the time of the Tibetan New Year and the Spring Festival the same in 2021?
The time of the Tibetan calendar year is different from the lunar year, and the algorithm is also different.When we are calculating the Tibetan New Year, we need to use the Tibetan calendar method, which is the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar; and when we are calculating the Spring Festival New Year, we need to use the lunar calendar method, which is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar.In very few years, the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar are the same day, and in 2021, it is such a coincidence that the date of the Tibetan New Year and the Lunar New Year of the Spring Festival are the same, both in February 2021 of the Gregorian calendar.12th.
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