On August 27 this year, the Lhasa Snow Festival is ushered in

The Xueton Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in Lhasa. Passing Linka, eating yogurt, watching Tibetan dramas ... In summer, happy festivals often last for several days. So, when is the Lhasa Snow Deton Festival this year? On July 7, the reporter interviewed the experts of the Institute of Astronomical Calendar of the Tibetan Hospital of the Autonomous Region.

The Institute of Astronomical Calculation of the Tibetan Hospital of the Autonomous Region will write a Tibetan astronomical meteorological book every year. People arrange a series of daily affairs such as agricultural and festival celebrations based on it. Dan Zeng introduced that the Xueton Festival is June 30 each year, and the corresponding Gregorian time is generally in mid -to -late August. "According to the" Tibetan Astronomy Meteorological Calendar in 2022 ", it can be seen that this year's Snowton Festival is August 27th (Saturday)." Dan Zeng told reporters.

The reporter learned that there are three types of calendars in the world including solar calendar, lunar calendar, and yin and yin calendar. Among them, the solar calendar is a year when the earth is running around the sun for a year, and the number of years and the number of days of the year and the monthly number of the month are made by man -made; Artificially stipulates; the yin -yoguk calendar is based on the average moon around the earth for a month, but by setting up the leap month, the average number of days a year is equal to the average time of the earth around the sun. kind. Divided the year into four seasons, with the order of winter, spring, summer, and autumn, 354th throughout the year. In 12 months, Yinyue was the first year, and the monthly lack of the moon was one month. Monthly, the big month, the 30th, Xiaoyue 29th. A leap month is used to adjust the relationship between month and seasons.

Dan Zeng introduced, therefore, the solar calendar time corresponding to the Snowton Festival is different every year, sometimes the difference between a few days, sometimes the difference between one month, this year it is more than ten days later than last year, but the Tibetan calendar is fixed. With the "Tibetan Astronomical Meteorological Calebher of the Tibetan", the solar calendar time corresponding to the Xueton Festival can be clear.

It is understood that the Tibetan calendar was born in a special plateau area with a climate, so there are also some special places to adapt to the local climate characteristics. , Organically combine the content of the data from various types of birds and beasts and plants and trees in various places to determine the solar term and divide the season.

Therefore, although the Tibetan calendar has also been divided into four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, at the same time, the six seasons division method is formed based on the unique climate characteristics of the region, namely: spring, post -spring, summer, autumn, winter, and winter. From the overall observation, the entire Tibet is the longest in winter, the second is second, the autumn is the shortest, and the shortest summer; some high -cold areas, even no summer, the spring and autumn are basically connected together.

"From late June to early July, the weather has not changed much compared to the present, and the precipitation is not very large, but the temperature will be slightly smaller than it is now." Once there is a told reporter that the weather condition calculation is mainly based on the genus of the Seven Affiliated. Twenty -eight stars are determined by the trend of the five major planets.

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Text Source: China Tibet News Network-Tibet Business Daily

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