(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FAMILY-TIBETAN NEW YEAR (CN)

(InXizang)CHINA-XIZANG-FAMILY-TIBETAN NEW YEAR (CN)

(240210) -- LHASA, Feb. 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sichod Wangmo and her great-granddaughter greet each other at Jiagen Village in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. Sitting in her spacious and bright living room, 85-year-old Sichod Wangmo, a resident in Damxung County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, can not feel more content and happier when her loved ones filled her cup with barley wine and gave her hada (a traditional Tibetan silk scarf that symbolizes purity and auspiciousness) one by one, wishing her all the best. Saturday marked the Tibetan New Year, which coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival this year, the most important festival in China for reunions of family members. In Xizang, there is no exception. Days before the Tibetan New Year, Soinam Nordar, Sichod Wangmo's seventh son, has been preparing food, candies and butter sculptures, welcoming his other ten brothers and sisters home with each of their families. Sicho

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