In 2018, the Tibetan New Year and the Chinese Spring Festival fall on the same day. 

As the most important holiday on the Tibetan calendar, Losar is celebrated over a period of two weeks.

In Sichuan Province's Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China’s second largest Tibetan area, in the small village of Nayi Village of Danba County, a family of six is preparing for the new year. 

Nayi Village is one of the most impoverished villages in Danba County, and it's at the highest elevation. 

Danba County is a small mountainous Tibetan town in a narrow valley, also known as the “kingdom of 1,000 watchtowers”. 

The family of six – father Langgong, mother Zeren, the two beautiful daughters Dawacuo and Lamu, and grandmother and great-grandmother－live under one roof in the Tibetan style house. 

The house is perched on a 2,800-meter-high mountainside, surrounded by steep green hills. There are ancient watchtowers, ridges and peaks, unique Tibetan architecture… truly magnificent scenery. 

The street of Danba County is crowded and business is booming at the approach of Losar, the Tibetan New Year. 

First and most important of all, is to purchase lots of food－such as fish, cooked food, and vegetables－Spring Festival couplets and new Tibetan style clothes at the local market. In just an hour, their bags are loaded with all sorts of stuff. 

It is all for tonight, the most important family dinner of the year.

The father Langgong then carries all the bags back home on his motorcycle. With more than 200 turns on the way home and with a climb of over 2,800 meters to the top of a mountain, it's a long trip home. It usually takes about two hours to travel between the county and home.

Some of the traditions include putting a picture of the Chinese President Xi Jinping up on the wall, putting New Year's couplets on the front door, lighting a lamp to pray for the new year and burning pine tree leaves on the roof during New Year’s Eve morning, and praying for peace and a bountiful harvest in the coming year. 

In some parts, part of the Losar celebrations include throwing a local food made by barley flour called Zanba into the air to show respect to god. 

Dawacuo and her sister were selected to take part in the second episode of a CCTV documentary called "Deep into Shambhala”.

Father Langgong says “I hope every family member is happy, my family is well, and that the people in the village are well in the new year. I hope my two daughters study well. In the new year I want to earn more money for my family.” The little sister Sanglanglamu says “I wish my grades will get better in the new year. I hope the whole family is healthy, safe, and happy, and I hope to travel around the world in the future.”

As the sun rises and the dense mist slowly, the snowy mountains in the far distance become much clearer and the locals say this indicates that this peaceful Tibetan village will have an auspicious and prosperous new year.