S festival time
Every year the Tibetan April 15
S popular areas
The Tibetan capital Lhasa
S festival source
Dragon of the potala palace LongWangTan north to to the dragon king. It is said that long ago, Lhasa is a great lakes. At that time, every year the Tibetan April 15, a child of tiger was thrown into the lake offering a dragon. One year, the buddhist monk and LuoZhu side of a named cloth of poor dunzhu tiger small disciple was fruit card into the lake when the king sacrifices, and after a long time, the poor dunzhu came suddenly fruit card before the king, request the princess to the king to marry him, the king thought cloth poor dunzhu is god, married her daughter to him, and from then on, the tiger is prohibited children thrown into the lake of dragon king made offerings, to move the lake superior food as a offerings.
S celebration
This day, Lhasa ChuanJing citizens turned out LongWangTan, went to the lake scatters delicacies support the dragon king, and with paddling, picnic, singing, dancing, to divert the dragon king.