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UPDATED: 15:23, August 22, 2005 |
| Tibetan farmers celebrate Onkor Festival |
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Horse racing at the Onkor Festival held in Mozhugongka county of Lhasa on Aug 19, 2005. 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 festival featuring culture, sports and trade.
Tibetan women welcome guests with "Qie Ma" and Qingke barley wine in hands.
Young farmers of the Mozhugongka county of Lhasa ride motorcycles to take part in the "Onkor Festival".
Commodities sold at the Onkor Festival held in Mozhugongka county of Lhasa on Aug 19, 2005.
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