As 2014 is the Year of Wood Horse by Tibetan Calendar, horse gains an enormous amount of exposure on various occasions. On many Tibetan farming areas, despite that yaks are regarded as the best livestock to plow fields-more farmers this year pick horses, Chinadaily.com.cn reported.
As the spring comes, farmers in Lhasa and many other places in Tibet started plowing their fields and sowing the seeds with the help of live stocks as usual. This year’s opening ceremony to announce the beginning of the farming season in Lhasa, horses take the place of both yaks and plowing machines. This happened not long after the widely participated and exhilarating Horse Racing Festival entertained a large audience across many villages in Tibet.
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