The Qiang New Year Festival, held on the first day of thetenth lunar month, is an occasion for the Qiang people of China's Sichuan Province to offer thanks and worship to heaven for prosperity, reaffirm their harmonious and respectful relationship with nature, and promote social and family harmony.
It come, almost to theday, to thetenth anniversary of the end of the Gulf War, which was not concluded totally satisfactorily, according to many analysts.