1. Tibetan Festivals Natalia Oleynik 11e

3. Tibet is not a country. It is a region located in southwest of China.

4. Tibetan festivals: Tibetan New Year (Losar) Butter Lantern Festival Sagar Dawa Festival Shoton Festival of Lhasa Bathing Festival Ongkor Festival (Harvest Festival) Horse Racing Fair and Archery Festival

5. Ongkor Festival The Ongkor Festival is an old festival in farming areas of Tibet held in each August according to Tibetan calendar, when all crops are waiting for harvest.

6. Activities Major activities include horse racing, shooting, singing and dancing, Tibetan Opera, stone holding and wrestling.

8. History The Ongkor Festival originated in the valley at the middle and lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River. The initial form was offering sacrifices to gods by natural villages to pray for a good harvest.

9. Zetang in Sharman Region holds the Ongkor Festival in mid- summer. People are dressed in Tibetan robes, wear jewels, carry dou (a measure for grain) and scripture book showing a good harvest on their back and hold colourful arrows.

10. Under the leadership of a revered man and accompanied by the sounds of ritual trumpets and drums, they move round the farmland outside the village, shouting: "Yangguxiu! Yangguxiu!“.

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