Sholdon is the transliteration of two Tibetan words which means "the Yoghurt Banquet"in Tibetan. The festival is for eating yoghurt. The reason of the connection between Shoton and yogurt has a long history. There are more than 300 pieces of regulations in Tibetan religious tenets and the most important is to avoid killing lives. In summer, all the animals come out for food and it is easy to kill those small worms, so during the period from 15th in June to 30th in July, the Lamas are ordered to do nothing but stay in their monastery for penance, which is called "Yale" in Tibetan language . However, staying inside the monastery for the whole day means no enough food for these lamas and it is said that the livestock of the family offering yogurt to lamas will be free of disease and can never get lost, nor were eaten by wild animals. With these known by more and more people, offering yogurt to lamas becomes a common activity on Shoton festival.