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| | tibet new year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | When people are preparing the Gutu, they will wrap some thing inside -- atone, salt, charcoal, wool, book paper, coin and hot pepper, and so on, different thing has different meaning, white stone means pure, charcoal means bad heart, book paper means wisdom...family members spend the night in happy mood. |
 | | After Gutu banquet, the family will hold a ceremony to send the ghost in their home away by puting some of the left food by the road, then set firecracers to expel the ghosts. |
 | | On the very early morning of the first day in the new year, the househostress will get up early to make the first bucket pf water and make breakfast for the whole family while others are sleeping sound. |
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