Qinghai ** Net (Wentu Tong Shiyu) in early spring and March, warm and cold, commonly known as the small Jiangnan of Qinghai, the Yellow River in Qinghai is already a group of wheat seedlings green, everywhere is filled with the intoxicating breath of spring and the fragrance of wheat field soil.
On March 6th, the traditional spring ploughing ceremony with the theme of "one plough spring ploughing and all things shine" kicked off in Zana Village.
It is a traditional custom of the local Tibetan people to hold a ploughing ceremony during the spring ploughing season. In the early morning, the women and children of the village dressed in festive costumes and walked towards the fields with beautifully made and brightly colored "tong cakes".
Everyone attaches great importance to the annual ploughing ceremony, and planting seeds on this day means that the year of hard work has officially begun. "For the villagers of Luohantang Village, the Ploughing Festival is a very important festival of the year.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, the ploughing ceremony officially began, and everyone tied Hada to the horns of the two oxen, and also tied Hada to the ploughshare; It symbolizes the good weather and abundant harvest in the new year. Pulled by the oxen, the ploughshare is embedded in the ground and slowly moves forward. A farmer next to him walked forward and scattered wheat seeds into the freshly ploughed field, praying for good weather and a good harvest in the year.
Then 4 agricultural machines rumbled, the fertile field was ploughed out of a deep furrow, a large piece of solid land, after a few large agricultural machinery back and forth to finish, the renovated soil is very soft, the sound of agricultural machinery in the field rumbled, the spring earth is full of jubilation.
After the ploughing ceremony, a lively Tong cake competition was held, and the beautifully made and brightly colored Tong cakes were neatly arranged on the stage like exquisite works of art.
Guide County is located in the upper valley of the Yellow River, with a mild climate and a long history of farming culture. Nowadays, although the local farming mechanization has been realized, it is still accustomed to use the way of "two oxen to lift the bar" to open the first plough of the new year, which has witnessed the development and change of the Tibetan ancestors from the nomadic life of "living in pursuit of water and grass" to the farming life of "working at sunrise and resting at sunset", which has profound emotions and unique significance, and is also the embodiment of the integration and development of Chinese and Tibetan cultures, and has become a unique scenery in the local area.