With the the Tibetan New Year approaching, the streets and alleys of Lhasa are filled with a festive atmosphere. Kasai, a traditional delicacy symbolizing good luck, is an indispensable traditional food for the Tibetan New Year.
As the Tibetan New Year (also known as Losar in Tibetan) approaches, the streets and alleys in Lhasa are filled with excitement.
Xizang boasts magnificent natural scenery in winter and a profound cultural heritage, and its food culture has a long history and unique features.
Generally, from the 23rd day to the 29th day of the 11th month of the Tibetan calendar, Sakya Monastery would hold its annual Mahakala Dharma Assembly, which features a large scale and a majestic atmosphere.
The Chinese Lunar New Year and Tibetan New Year are coming. Citizens are more and more passionate about special purchases for the festivals. The annual peak season for special purchases for the Spring Festival gets underway slowly.
Recently, Princess Jincheng, the large-scale Amdo Tibetan opera, composed by the Tibetan Opera Troupe of Qinghai Province, completed its Beijing debut at the Mei Lanfang Theatre. This marks the first time the play was performed outside its birthplace, Qinghai Province.
Ani, 60, is an inheritor of the traditional Reba Dance. Reba Dance is a form of drum dance, and a blend of performing arts, integrating storytelling, singing, dancing and acrobatics. In 2006, it was included in the first batch of China's national intangible cultural heritage list.
his photo taken on Jan. 3, 2025 shows a costume show during the opening ceremony of a clothing culture week in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
Batang County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, is called the “Hometown of Chinese Xianzi Dance”
A monk lights butter lamps at Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Dec. 25, 2024. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through the night in the annual Butter Lamp Festival commemorating Tsong Khapa,
The Lijiang Ancient Road Tibetan Museum in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province is a unique museum integrating ethnic characteristics, folklore, regionalism, and intangible cultural heritage.
December 15, also October 15 in the Tibetan calendar, is the “Pal Lhamo Festival”, a traditional folk festival of Xizang, also called the “Fairy Festival”.
On a viewing platform near the Potala Palace in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, many tourists, each holding up a paper note, have lined up for an opportunity to take a photo with the majestic palace.
The Fairy's Day, known as the "Women's Festival" in modern Xizang, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 10th month in the Tibetan calendar.
Shilok is an inheritor of a traditional Tibetan mask making technique, a regional intangible cultural heritage with time-consuming procedures including sculpting, layering, air-drying, and painting.
The migration and spread of ancient humans across the Eurasian continent after leaving Africa were significantly influenced by climate change and landscape evolution, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.
This year, December 2 marks the October 1 in the Tibetan calendar when every year local people would celebrate “the first day of the Gongbo New Year”.
Different from the external walls of buildings in other places in Xizang, which are mainly red, white and yellow, the walls of monasteries and residences in Sagya County, Xigaze are mainly red, white, and gray,
Located in Gyirong Town, Xigaze, the Xizang Autonomous Region, China, Daman Village is close to the border between China and Nepal.
On the evening of October 27, a fashion show was in Lhasa, Xizang Autonomous Region. With the theme of “Fashion Has No Boundary, You are the Focus”, it is a fashion feast integrating music dinner party, haute couture show, and fashion shopping, showing the charm and style of Lhasa.
his year is the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Sichuan-Xizang Highway and Qinghai-Xizang Highway. Recently, Stories Behind Lens--Photography Exhibition at 70th Anniversary of "Two Roads" Open to Traffic was held in Lhasa.
Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region launched the country's first digital resource center for Tibetan medicine and astrology on Friday.
n monasteries and villages along the Longwu River basin in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, Buddhist monks and folk artists of the Tibetan and Tu ethnic groups carry on the plastic arts of painting thangka and murals, crafting patchwork barbola and sculpting known collectively as the Regong arts.
Guomari ancient castle, located in Guomari village, Tongren city, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Qinghai Province, is one of the oldest and best-preserved ancient castles in Qinghai. In 2006, it was listed as China's Famous Historic and Cultural Village.
Recently, cham dance activity was carried out in Tashilhunpo Monastery in Xigaze, Xizang to drive out evil spirits, make efforts to avert calamity, and pray for contented people living in a country at peace and good weather for the crops.
