On the new year eve, Tibetans have the tradition to watch a TV gala and eat a special food named Gutu, steamed stuffed bun.

The 74-year-old Tsering Drolma put capsicum, wool and china into the buns, representing spicy personality, mild characteristic and lazy bones respectively for the people who eat it in Tibetan traditions.

Tsering Drolma married a man from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, who is of the Han ethnic group, in the 1950s. She has a big family with four generations now.

"We celebrate both the Spring Festival and the Tibetan New Year each year," she said.

"We eat Gutu to celebrate the Tibetan new year together and my son-in-law comes to make jiaozi for us during the Spring Festival."

His son-in-law is also from the Han ethnic group, who celebrate the beginning of the lunar New Year with the Spring Festival.

In other Tibetan residential areas, people also can also find the festive atmosphere for the the new year.

"We have better days and more money now. We now buy more things and more expensive stuff in the new year shopping," said a woman named Kelsang Drolma in her Tibetan clothes among the crowds in a market in Shangri-La County of Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Region, Yunnan Province.