Arts and crafts in Tibetans' life

onam Drolkar, a 64-year-old nun living at Nyemo County, pride of her handmade mud stupa. Photo taken on June 4, eYongs.

With a long history and exquisite craftmanship, woodcarving at Nyemo County and traditional Tibetan paper-making in Lhasa and other sorts of Tibetan folk arts and crafts achieve growing popularity among tourists and collectors.

The Government of China's Tibet Autonomous Region has paid intense attention to protection and preservation of Tibetan folk culture. Experts have completed a two-decade-long comprehensive investigation into Tibet's folk art recently, according to China Radio International.

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Tibetan Hats

As Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has low temperature, strong sunshine, and changeable weather, as well as strong wind whipping up sand, Tibetans like to wear different styles of hats related to status, gender, and region. The most common one is called "Xamo Gyaise" -- the golden thread hat.

The lining is made with a felt cap base. The top is decorated with golden silk and the edge is inlaid with silk ribbon. The hat is designed with four edges -- the larger front and back edges and the smaller left and right edges --, all sewn with fur.

With fine materials, the hat is very warm and loved by both men and women. When women wear the hat, they place the two larger edges inside the hat, leaving the left and right ones outside; for men, the left, right and back ones are placed inside, leaving only the front one out. In snowy weather, the four edges are all placed outside. The elderly usually set the four edges outside. The golden thread hat is practical and cannot be compared with other hats. 

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Buddha Unfolding Festival

The Buddha Unfolding Festival is celebrated from the 14th to the 16th in the fifth Tibetan month.

The Buddha Unfolding Festival is an important religious activity at the Tashilhunpo Monastery involving scripture chanting, prayers for rain, along with a joyous festival for people. Giant Thangkas of Amitayus, Sakyamuni and Maitreya are displayed on the monastery's Thangka Wall, and thousands of pilgrims rush to the monastery to pay their offerings to the Buddhas and accumulate merits.

The tradition has lasted for 500 years.

Tibetan Wooden Bowls

Those who travel in Tibet often express deep amazement at the impressive wooden bowls local people use.

In Tibet, everyone who leaves home for a trip carries a wooden bowl. Wooden bowls are special articles for daily use and are both durable and easy to take on journeys. Tibetans prefer them so much that they use them as dinner dishes and as a method for drinking the area's famous milk tea. It is no wonder that they even refer the wooden bowl as their lover in folk songs.

Wooden bowls are generally made from mulberry, birch or tung. Bowls are most often fashioned in a set. Each set contains three bowls: two big ones and one small.

Traditional Tibetan Mask

The Tibetan mask is a kind of handcraft article evolved from the Tibetan opera and the religious masks suspended in temples. Tibetan masks are endowed with a very high value of collection, including the mask of Sorcerers of Dance, the suspending mask and the mask of Tibetan opera. Tibetan opera mask is popular among the folks and divided into the blue mask and the white mask, and types of facial makeup can be king, prince, princess and goblins, etc., according to the need of the plot.

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Tibetan Gold and Silver Objects

Gold and silver wares are also traditional Tibetan crafts. Gold and silver wares in Tibet are generally divided into two categories:

Ornaments, such as bracelets, rings, necklaces, hair decorations, brooches, sheaths and snuff bottles.

Household utensils, such as wine pots, wine cups, spoons, chopsticks, bowls and plates. Some are made from pure gold and silver, while others are inlaid or coated with gold and silver .

Highly skilledt masters can make lively and vivid figures on gold and silver ware, including phoenixes, tigers, or lions.