Marital Customs
Nowadays, Tibetan youths have greater freedom of social life before marriage. A common way of falling in love and becoming engaged is through singing local folk songs. Youths usually convey their mutual admiration through the "Guozhuang" (a dance around the fireplace stones), which they like very much. It is particularly the case with the Wang-guo Festival, when the young people, dressed in bright costumes, go as agreed to the dance to choose their beloved companions of life.

A tea party is a most grand occasion for social life and dating among the youth. It usually takes place in the slack-farming season or on festivals. At the tea party, youths drink tea while echoing each other's songs. Through singing, the young people find their soul mate.

After engagement, a go-between is employed by the male party to bring presents to the parents of the other party, seeking their agreement on the marriage. Once the agreement is obtained, a date is appointed for the wedding.

The wedding proceeds in singing, through which people's feelings expressed. Thus songs become a vehicle of emotions, adding an infinite zest to the wedding, which will not end until midnight when both sexes have enjoyed Guozhuang to their heart's content.


Presenting Hada
Present hada is a common practice among the Tibetan people to express their best wishes on many occasions, such as wedding ceremonies, festivals, visiting the elders and the betters, and entertaining guests. The white hada, a long narrow scarf made of silk, embodies purity and good fortune.

Hada is a kind of long white silk ribbon. In tradition, The Tibetan people give Hada to their guests and relatives as a gift to show respect and congratulation. The wider the hada is, the more respective it shows.

The common Tibetan people cannot present a Hada to a Living Buddha directly when they visit the Living Buddha. They can only put Hada on the table before the Living Buddha.


Proposing a Toast and Tea
Proposing a Toast and Tea When you come to a Tibetan family, the host will propose a toast, usually barley wine. You should sip three times and then drink up. To entertain guests with tea is a daily etiquette. The guest has not to drink until the host presents the tea to you.


Bow
For older or respected person, should be passport, and bent down 45 degrees, hats, holding it in the hands of low-level near. For most people, or guarded, said only polite bow, hat on the chest, head slightly.

Sometimes just clap your hands together and bow and used for the people just clap your hands together to respect the right track, and bent down nod, the same action as a couple.


Kowtow
Kowtow Tibet common courtesy, usually pilgrims statues, pagodas and Buddha when kowtow have to kowtow to the elderly. Kowtow can be divided into long head knock and knock and knock ring for a short first three.

When the knock-handed just clap your hands together as promised, top-of the amount to the chest, Gongyi three times, then crawl volts to the ground, his hands Straight, on the floor, and then rose to as done before.

Knock ring for the first time there is a kowtow, just clap your hands together first 3 greet arch, and then lumbar arch foot of the Buddha, with a light head.


Pilgrimage
The immediate motivations of pilgrimage are many, but for the ordinary Tibetan it amounts to a means of accumulating merit or good luck. The lay practitioner might go on pilgrimage in the hope of winning a better rebirth, cure an illness, end a spate of bad luck or simply because of a vow to take a pilgrimage if a bodhisattva granted a wish. In Tibet there are countless sacred destinations, ranging from lakes and mountains to monasteries and caves that once served as meditation retreats for important yogin. Specific pilgrimages are often proscribed for specific ills; certain mountains for example expiate certain sins. A circumambulation of Mt. Kailash offers the possibility of liberation within three lifetimes, while a circuit of Lake Manasarovar can result in spontaneous Buddhahood.