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| Tibetan farmers radiant with "Onkor Festival" |
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The "Onkor Festival", or "Fruit-Awaiting Festival" is quite popular in the agricultural region in Tibet. Every year when crops are ripe and ready for reaping, local farmers in Tibet, dressed in festival clothes, holding "Qie Ma" and Qingke barley wine that symbolize abundant harvest, will sing and dance in the farmland, celebrating the annual "Onkor Festival" indicating plenteous harvest. Once a simple religious festival, the "Onkor Festival", in which people could enjoy horse-racing games, archery contests, song and dance, Tibetan opera as well as material exchange, now has become a comprehensive festival featuring culture, sports and trade, enriching the material and cultural life of local Tibetan peasants and herdsmen to a great extent.
Farming drink barley wine while taking rest on their way to the "Onkor Festival" celebration.
A farmer performs at the "Onkor Festival" celebration.
A Tibetan girl is impressed by the "Onkor Festival" celebration.
Farmers from Linzhou County, Tibet Autonomous Region on their way to attend the "Onkor Festival" celebration walk past the farmland.
Farmers are on their way to "Onkor Festival" celebration.
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