Litang Horse Festival

Litang Horse Festival originally was a religious festival of the Litang
Monastery. When it was first celebrated 300 years ago, Lamas of the
Monastery travelled around the holy mountain in the morning and held horse
races in the afternoon. The festival was stopped in 1950 for political
reasons, and restarted in 1963. Since then the festival has been much
extended. Now it lasts a week, though without much religious aspect. What
we find now is spectacular horse races, Tibetan Operas, much singing and
dancing, withal the best traditional clothes on display and horse market.
Nomads from the area gather on Litang Grassland to build up their tents
and take part in the festival. The festival attracts more and more people
each year, with racing horses totaling over 2,000 and participating nomads
totaling in tens of thousands. For more information, please visit Litang
Horse Festival originally was a religious festival of the Litang
Monastery. When it was first celebrated 300 years ago, Lamas of the
Monastery travelled around the holy mountain in the morning and held horse
races in the afternoon. The festival was stopped in 1950 for political
reasons, and restarted in 1963. Since then the festival has been much
extended. Now it lasts a week, though without much religious aspect. What
we find now is spectacular horse races, Tibetan Operas, much singing and
dancing, withal the best traditional clothes on display and horse market.
Nomads from the area gather on Litang Grassland to build up their tents
and take part in the festival. The festival attracts more and more people
each year, with racing horses totaling over 2,000 and participating nomads
totaling in tens of thousands.Litang Horse Festival originally was a
religious festival of the Litang Monastery. When it was first celebrated
300 years ago, Lamas of the Monastery travelled around the holy mountain
in the morning and held horse races in the afternoon. The festival was
stopped in 1950 for political reasons, and restarted in 1963. Since then
the festival has been much extended. Now it lasts a week, though without
much religious aspect. What we find now is spectacular horse races,
Tibetan Operas, much singing and dancing, withal the best traditional
clothes on display and horse market. Nomads from the area gather on Litang
Grassland to build up their tents and take part in the festival. The
festival attracts more and more people each year, with racing horses
totaling over 2,000 and participating nomads totaling in tens of
thousands. For more information, please visit
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