The Tibetan Meadow Festival is also called Tibetan calendar Year. It is one of the traditional Tibetan festivals, which is similar to the Spring Festival of the Hans. It is celebrated on the early first month of Tibetan calendar. The festival lasts about one week.Prior to the festival, every family tidies up the house. According to the customs of the Tibetans, people pour out sewage and rubbish toward the west when the sun is setting down the west. It means to have all stuff harmful to the human health disappear. Afterward, every family brews highland-barley wine, makes seedcakes and cheesecakes, and prepares blood sausage, mutton sausage, fresh milk and other festival food.On the 1st day of the Tibetan New Year, the hostess of every family has to get up at dawn. She goes to the riverbank with a pail to carry water. She puts some fresh milk in the water and carries back. All family members wash up with the water. After washing and dressing, all enjoy playing with the "Dragon Lantern" and burn joss sticks to pray for the abundance on grassplot and water as well as strong livestock. After then, the family will have a dinner together. Prior to the dinner, each one has to take some "Zamba" flour, which means he or she is a "Zamba" eater and bears the ancestors in mind. During the first three days of the festival, it is a custom for the villagers not to go out of the village. All of them watch the sorcerer's dance in a trance, which is a kind of the traditional religious dance. The dancers wear a mask and dress cassock, dancing to the accompaniment of cymbals, gongs, drums and trumpet shells. They take a rest for a while and continue to perform until it is over.In addition, young men and girls dance and sing to the rhythm of the sounds of gongs and drums, flute and Erhu (a two-stringed bowed instrument). In three days, people bring along with the old and young to drop around in the village greeting to each other for a merry festival.During the festival, according to the local traditional custom, the girls and married women often "rob" foods from men, who neither complain nor oppose. Young men in some villages hold the "yak race". During the game, two persons stand around 10 meters away from each other, both holding a yak string marked in the middle. The one who draws the rival over the mark will be the winner. When drawing, they keep deadlock for three minutes, then take a rest for one minute to go on. The one who draws the rival over the mark in at least 2 of 3 rounds will be the final winner. At night, girls and young men mainly gather inside or outside the village singing and dancing.