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The origin of the fruit festival
According to legend, as early as the end of the 5th century A.D., King Bude Gong Jian of Tibet sought advice from the Buddha in Yongzhong to ensure a bumper harvest. The Buddha instructed the farmers to circle the fields. People held incense burners and held banners as leaders. Our religious leaders took sticks wrapped around Hada and sheep's right legs as guides. After leading the villagers with highland barley ears or wheat ears around the fields several times, they planted all kinds of ears of grain in granaries and shrines, praying for good weather and abundant crops. At that time, Tibetans wearing Tibetan robes of various colors and colored ribbons around their waists will wear colorful flags, respectfully carry a harvest tower made of barley ears and wheat ears, with white hada tied on the tower, beating gongs and drums, singing carols of blessing and circling the fields to pray for a bumper harvest. Then have a big picnic. As soon as the festival is over, the intense autumn harvest work officially begins. Celebrating the "Fruit Watching Festival" and looking forward to a bumper harvest is the greatest joy of Tibetan farmers after half a year's hard work. In the Tibetan "Guowang Festival", "Wang" means "field", "Guo" means "circle" and "Guowang Festival" means singing and dancing around the harvest field.

It is one of the long-term unremitting wishes to have the opportunity to witness the "entertaining god" dance of the Tibetan "Guowang Festival". Although I know a little about the "fruit watching festival" from the data, I want to know more about the traditional "fruit watching festival" and its origin and evolution, as well as how people use dance to repay the gods in the ceremony. The most reliable thing is to go to the scene and participate in festivals on the basis of data. To this end, we will conduct information inquiry and interview as much as possible before the festival. Fortunately, the origin of the "Fruit Watching Festival" is actually found in the Calendar of Our Religion: It is said that at the end of the 5th century AD, King Bud Gong Jian of Tibet sought a way to bless the harvest of crops from our religion, and the leader pointed out: Let farmers walk around the fields that are about to be harvested and entertain the gods with dances, and God will give them a bumper harvest. From then on, before the harvest every year, the silly monk, as the leader of the sacrificial procession, held high the banner, held Hada's wand "Dada" and the sheep's right leg in his hand, and led the farmers with wheat ears and the women with various flags on their shoulders and small wooden pots full of wheat grains to form a long queue, and held a sacrificial parade around the farmland to "gather and pray for a bumper harvest". In the process of this mighty procession pouring out of the village, people praised the gods with constant slogans and hymns and prayed for a bumper harvest, until the "parade around the field" team returned to the village, and people put their ears of wheat and flags with the wishes of the gods in their hands in the barn or shrine, which ended the first part of the "Fruit Festival" activity.

The sacrificial ceremony of "fruit watching" activities in agricultural areas of Tibet was very simple before the middle of the 8th century. After the establishment of the Yellow Sect in the second half of the 8th century, the activities of "fruit viewing" were added with religious color, forming a whole set of joyful activities of religious sacrificial ceremonies. That is, since then, in order to wish a bumper harvest, the "Fruit Watching Festival", which includes two parts: "Parade around the field" and "Celebration", has been included in the official festivals in Tibetan agricultural areas.

The date of the "Guowang Festival" in the agricultural area after Tibet depends on the maturity of highland barley. The festival lasts for 3 to 5 days, and its scale and duration depend on the economic strength of each township. Activities can be jointly organized by several townships or independently organized by each township. After contact, they will be invited to participate in the "Guowang Festival" jointly organized by Sima and Wangdui, not far from Shigatse.