A TRADITIONAL TIBETAN WEDDING CELEBRATION Thursday, January 28, 2021-February 10, 2022 བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྒྱ་མཚོ། Bkra shis rgya mtsho (Zhaxijiancuo 扎西尖措, photographer, writer, editor, using an iPhone 12 Pro Max) Film length: 2 hours, 28 minutes, ??seconds (not sure yet) Part-One This documentary focuses on a traditional wedding celebration in a herding family at 35 °9'45" latitude, 100°26'22" longitude, 3,351 MASL in #3 Brigade, Hwo thog sum dbrag Valley, Klu lung Village, Thang mgo (Tanggu) Town, 'Ba' rdzong (Tongde) County, Mtsho lho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Mtsho sngon (Qinghai) Province, PR China. I participated throughout the 14-day celebration. On the 5th day of the first lunar month, 2022, a celebration was held for the groom, Bdud mgon skyabs, and the bride, Choe bzang sgrol ma. In the early 2020s, most locals held weddings in 'Ba' rdzong County Town restaurants. However, some families divided into two groups. One group held a wedding celebration at home in the traditional way, and the other held a wedding celebration in a restaurant. This family held wedding celebrations at home. Main Characters Bdud mgon skyabs (b. 1995) in Klu lung Village. In 2019, he graduated from Mtsho sngon Normal University and taught Tibetan at 'Od gsal Tibetan Primary School, 'Od gsal Township, Dar legs County, Mgo log Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Choe bzang sgrol ma (b.1996) Dung dkar Village, Tang mgo Town graduated in 2018 from Mtsho sngon Normal University and taught mathematics at 'Ba' rdzong Boarding Primary School, 'Ba' rdzong County Town. Family Members Bdud mgon skyabs is my maternal cousin. His family has ten members: his father (Smin grol, Ngag dbang smin grol, b.1965), mother (Skal khao, Skal bzang sgrol ma, b. 1970), uncle (Blo bzang tshul khrims, b. 1971, a Bde chen Monastery monk), older brother (Blo bzang dpal ldan (b. 1992), sister-in-law (Bsod nams sgrol ma (b. 1992, from Rgya bo Village, Tang mgo Town), younger sister (Ye shes mtsho (b. 1996, graduated from Mtsho sngon Qaidam (Chaidamu) Vocational and Technical College in 2019), nephew (Yum skyabs rgyal, b. 2016), and Tshe dpal mkhar (b. 2018). Family Conditions The family has 370 mu (24.66 hectares) of winter pasture, 17 mu (1.13 hectares) of summer pasture, 14 mu(hectares 0.93) of farmland, 80 yaks, 100 sheep, a black goat, a brown dog, a black cat, vehicles (Rongwie...