The Spring Festival and Tibetan New Year in 2024 are coming, and for Zhang Xiaobin and Tsering Yangzong, the happiest thing is to spend the first New Year in the new house they bought this year. "After many years of struggle in Lhasa, this year is the first year for the whole family to spend in the new house, to have a good time, we are ready to celebrate the New Year according to the customs of Lhasa, eat 'Gutu'. Tsering Yangzong happily spoke about their New Year's arrangements.
Zhang Xiaobin is from Henan, Tsering Yangzong is from **Qamdo, and the introduction of friends brought them together and became a Tibetan and Chinese couple. Zhang Xiaobin and Tsering Yangzong, both with eye diseases, experienced a lot of difficulties after they got married, in order to live, they signed up for a training center for the disabled to learn massage skills, and now, they run a body-friendly Chinese medicine massage therapy studio in Chengguan District, Lhasa. Speaking of his gratitude to his wife, Zhang Xiaobin said excitedly: "In the past, the conditions were not good, so she and I suffered a lot, and when I was pregnant, I moved with me to find a house." But now that everything is fine, we have brought our daughter to Lhasa, bought a new house, and live together as a family, and I believe that our life will get better and better. ”
According to the custom of our hometown: after buying a house, you must spend the first Spring Festival in the new house. Therefore, we do not plan to go back to Henan or Qamdo this year, and we are going to spend the New Year in Lhasa. Tsering Yangzong was very happy that the couple had finally taken root in Lhasa and bought their own new house, which was not a big house, but the family was satisfied with living together.
According to the custom of our hometown in Henan, we make dumplings on the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve and kowtow to the elders on the first day of the new year, but this year in Lhasa for the New Year, we decided to follow the customs, and on the evening of the 29th day of the Tibetan calendar, the family ate 'Gutu' and offered 'Chema' in the new house. Zhang Xiaobin said. "In the future, when we go back to Henan for the New Year, we will also celebrate the New Year according to the customs of Henan. If both parents come to Lhasa for the New Year in the future, we will not only eat 'Gutu', but also hand out red envelopes, paste couplets, and cook a 'new' Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Tsering Yangzong shared his future plans with reporters.
The New Year is a festive event, for Zhang Xiaobin and Tsering Yangzong, "national unity and family" is the friendship they have always adhered to, and the participation of both parties has made the multi-ethnic cultural atmosphere of the family stronger, and the family is more harmonious and happy.
*: China** News Network.