Home decorations play an indispensable part of the festivities during Tibetan New Year, specifically dried and dyed highland barley flowers.

Local Tibetans keep the flowers in reserve when they harvest the barley in autumn. They have a unique method to dry the flowers and keep them in delicate shape, and when Tibetan New Year comes, they dye the flowers in different colours. After another six hours in the sun, the flowers are ready and up for sale.

Traditionally people purchase the "new year flowers" and put them on a "chema box", a wooden box that carries roasted barley. It's used as a sign at the door to welcome visitors, as well as to worship ancient Tibetan gods.