{"id":98880279,"date":"2015-07-08T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-tibet-s-yalong-cultural-festival\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:54:16","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-tibet-s-yalong-cultural-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-tibet-s-yalong-cultural-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need to Know About Tibet\u2019s Yalong Cultural Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Everything You Need to Know About Tibet\u2019s Yalong Cultural Festival\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2015\/7\/shutterstock_105320177.jpg\" alt=\"Everything You Need to Know About Tibet\u2019s Yalong Cultural Festival\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s been said that the people of Tibet have more holidays and take advantage of more opportunities to celebrate than any other nationality in the world. According to some tallies, the traditional Tibetan calendar features somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 different festivities and holidays with religious or cultural roots.<\/p>\n<p>But if there\u2019s one tibetan festival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/lhasa-lxa-china-deals\" target=\"_blank\">that\u2019s worth traveling all the way to the so-called \u201croof of the world,\u201d<\/a> it\u2019s the Yalong Cultural Festival. And it\u2019s going down this month!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the Yalong Cultural Festival:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhat is it? <\/strong><br \/>\nThe Yalong Cultural Festival is a celebration of all things Tibetan. It\u2019s an annual gathering that commemorates the rich heritage, history, and culture of the Tibetan people. It\u2019s attended, according to some estimates, by tens of thousands of people from across the country and the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhen is it?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt all goes down on July 25th and runs for three days until July 27th.<br \/>\n<strong>What goes on there? <\/strong><br \/>\nThe festival is full of scheduled activities and events, which have been increasing each year since the the festival was first held in 1990. There are symposiums on regional culture, contests of traditional tibetan sports, showcases featuring singing and dancing&#8211;including tibetan opera and ethnic costumes. There\u2019s also the merging of art and commerce with trade fairs and folk art shows. It\u2019s a smorgasbord of tibetan culture, for both observers and collectors.<br \/>\n<strong>Where is it?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Well, Tibet. Obviously. But the festival takes place in the Yalong River Valley, which is considered the \u201ccradle of Tibetan civilization,\u201d in the Shannan prefecture. The valley is believed to be the birthplace of the Tibetan ethnicity and where legend tells that Tibetans were created\u00a0 when a supernatural monkey and a fairy mated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been said that the people of Tibet have more holidays and take advantage of more opportunities to celebrate than any other nationality in the world. According to some tallies, the traditional Tibetan calendar features somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 different festivities and holidays with religious or cultural roots. But if there\u2019s one tibetan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898583,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880279\/revisions\/98898583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}