Asia Grace


Matching Dance

Near Litan, Tibet

On a rolling green pasture, Tibetians set up white tents to party for two weeks. Young men and women get dressed in their traditional best and then folk dance as a way to meet each other and set up matches. These girls are packed with very heavy silver jewlery.

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Reader Stories

Tommy Shiekman writes:

This is from the Litang Horse Festival. I was there last summer as a 17 year old from Philadelphia. The festival is when the town of Litang shuts down and people do all sorts of horse-related events and traditional dances. Like most of Tibet, the Chinese have taken over this festival.

June 2, 2003

Marieke Wenning writes:

Our guide translated a conversation with a young woman just like this. The woman wear their wealth for show. In past times, nomad times, this was the only wealth, next to cattle, they knew. The woman are very proud. Although we did meet an elderly woman in Lhasa who tried to sell us her jewellery to pay for her return ticket home. She had just finished her pilgrimage to Lasa Bakor.

January 16, 2006