■Festival period
Before and after annual the 15th of the sixth lunar month.

■Festival source

Tibetan language " fragrant wave " the meaning of picking firewood. Every June, the climate is pleasant on the grassland, the sweet meat of milk is fragrant, pick the firewood , go to the field to reunite with family in Buddhist monk in the temple excuse . It is vulgar to follow later , has already had a history of several hundred years so far.

■Celebrate the way

Before and after annual the 15th of the sixth lunar month, Tibetan people in the area of Xiahe always take tents and sumptuous food, go to beautiful grass beach and hill to travel for a few days, cross traditional fragrant wave festival joyously . Before last the sky and the sun of festival produce, people is it is it draw hilltop and then (offered sacrifices to in the stone tower ) to have to come, cook over a slow fire the mulberry and hold a memorial ceremony for the god, pray to gods' blessing. Horse-racing , comparable to the yak , wrestling , tug-of-war, is the project that people welcome, men and women, old and young all participated in enthusiastically . Nightfall, the compatriot in Tibet good at singing and dancing , by the bonfire blazing, sing the melodious and beautiful song and dance lightly, happy heartily, until the night.