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Kongpo New Year (Kongpo Losar) People in the Kongpo area celebrate an earlier New Year Festival than other Tibetan areas. It is on the first day of October in Tibetan calendar and is the most representative festival of the Kongpo area. Legend has it that the Kongpo people had celebrated the New Year on the same day as other Tibetan areas, i.e. January 1 st in Tibetan calendar, and it was in the seventh century that the date was changed. This was a time of conflict between certain northern tribes and the Kongpos. With the New Year celebrations imminent, soldiers were reluctant to leave their hometown for fear of missing the festivities. As an inducement to them, the king decided to bring forward the New Year celebrations. The Kongpos successfully drove their aggressors from their hometown and the custom of an earlier New Year Festival was retained as a commemoration of the great event.
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