Tibetans are the main inhabitants on the plateau, the principal inhabitants of Tibet.

Tibetan people are enthusiastic and open-minded and good at singing and dancing, optimistic and happy, The Tibetan songs are pleasant to the ears and are often accompanied by dance.

Traditionally, farmers settled in small villages with barley as their main crop. The roaming nomads ear...[Full]

Tibetans are the main inhabitants on the plateau, the principal inhabitants of Tibet.

Tibetan people are enthusiastic and open-minded and good at singing and dancing, optimistic and happy, The Tibetan songs are pleasant to the ears and are often accompanied by dance.

Traditionally, farmers settled in small villages with barley as their main crop. The roaming nomads earned their living by herding yaks and sheep. Most Tibetans in cities made a living as craftsmen. However, nowadays more and more people are migrating into businesses.

Tibetans traditionally wear long-sleeved silk or cloth jackets which men top with loose robes and women with long sleeveless gowns which are tied at the waist with a sash. Married women frequently wear an apron with a multi-color design. Both women and men braid their hair and love wearing ornaments. Different areas have different clothing.

The staple food is zanba (roasted qingke barley flour or pea meal); tea with butter or milk is the favorite of all Tibetans. They have a liking for qingke barley wine, beef and mutton, but do not eat horses.

Most Tibetans are devout Buddhists while a few believe in the old Bon. Islam and Catholicism also have a few followers in Lhasa and Yanjing respectively.

In ancient times Tibetans buried their dead in the ground but in modern times Tibetans practise celestial burial (in which the corpse is chopped to bits and exposed on a mountain face to be eaten by vultures and other birds of prey), cremation and water burial.

The Origin of Tibetan Nationality
In ancient times the ancestors of the present Tibetans lived along the both sides of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. In the 6th century the chieftain of the Yarlung tribe conquered several nearby tribes to become king. He was known as Zanpu (king), and established the Po dynasty. In the early 7th century Songtsen Gampo(his grandson) unified the whole of Tibet and shifted the capital to Lhasa. This is known to Chinese history as the Tupo kingdom. In 641, Songtsen Gampo married Princess Wencheng, of the Tang Dynasty, and was given the title of “the King of China’s west”. In 710, Xidezuzan (a king of Tibet) married Princess Jincheng of Tang Dynasty. The contacts between Tibet and central China had a strong influence on Tibetan society in the fields of politics, economics, and culture.[Close]

Tibetans are the main inhabitants on the plateau, the principal inhabitants of Tibet.

Tibetan people are enthusiastic and open-minded and good at singing and dancing, optimistic and happy, The Tibetan songs are pleasant to the ears and are often accompanied by dance.

Traditionally, farmers settled in small villages with barley as their main crop. The roaming nomads ear...[Full]