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5th February 2015
Today, on the 16th day of the 12th month in the traditional lunar calendar, it is the season of spring among the four seasons. It is said that one encounters one's unachieved plans on this day. From the beginning of spring, the weather will gradually become warmer. In Sichuan's Ngawa Prefecture, the beginning of spring is when it becomes apparent if a bumper harvest will be had in the coming year. All local people perform an offering ritual, called the Welcoming of Spring. In the farming villages of Heho Township, in Songpan County, at an altitude of 3,000m, every year from the first day of spring, young and old in all the villages perform a prayer ceremony called Spring Prosperity. Not only is there a prayer ceremony, but also, every year at the beginning of spring, all livestock are marked with red paint. The meaning of this is that it signifies the beginning of herding in an easterly direction. Anointing with red is considered beneficial for protecting a family's livestock from theft by others and from being eaten by carnivores in the east.
5th February 2015
Today, on the 16th day of the 12th month in the traditional lunar calendar, it is the season of spring among the four seasons. It is said that one encounters one's unachieved plans on this day. From the beginning of spring, the weather will gradually become warmer. In Sichuan's Ngawa Prefecture, the beginning of spring is when it becomes apparent if a bumper harvest will be had in the coming year. All local people perform an offering ritual, called the Welcoming of Spring. In the farming villages of Heho Township, in Songpan County, at an altitude of 3,000m, every year from the first day of spring, young and old in all the villages perform a prayer ceremony called Spring Prosperity. Not only is there a prayer ceremony, but also, every year at the beginning of spring, all livestock are marked with red paint. The meaning of this is that it signifies the beginning of herding in an easterly direction. Anointing with red is considered beneficial for protecting a family's livestock from theft by others and from being eaten by carnivores in the east.