Local Tibetans celebrate annual Bathing Festival
Local people bath by a river in suburb Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Sept. 13, 2017. Local Tibetans celebrated the annual Bathing Festival, which usually falls on the first ten days of July on Tibetan calendar, in their time-honored ways. Mass bathing starts when Venus rises to the sky and ends when the star sets. Legend goes that bathing at this period is beneficial to health. (Xinhua/Chogo)
Local people bath by a river in suburb Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Sept. 13, 2017. Local Tibetans celebrated the annual Bathing Festival, which usually falls on the first ten days of July on Tibetan calendar, in their time-honored ways. Mass bathing starts when Venus rises to the sky and ends when the star sets. Legend goes that bathing at this period is beneficial to health. (Xinhua/Chogo)
A woman takes a bath by a river in suburb Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Sept. 13, 2017. Local Tibetans celebrated the annual Bathing Festival, which usually falls on the first ten days of July on Tibetan calendar, in their time-honored ways. Mass bathing starts when Venus rises to the sky and ends when the star sets. Legend goes that bathing at this period is beneficial to health. (Xinhua/Chogo)
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Traditional "Bathing Festival" celebrated in Tibet
The Bathing Festival lasts for seven days during the seventh Tibetan month each year. This ancient tradition has been around for more than 800 years.
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