About Thai Pongal Festival
Tamil Festival
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About Thai Pongal
The festival of tamils.
The festival of india are not only vibrant but has a great cultural
significance. The festival of lights, colours happiness, love and purity
makes us one. One such festival is thai pongal , a festival of harvest a
festival of thanks giving, bringing all the people together to make
merry.
A festival of harvest, a festival primarily of tamil nadu and srilanka.
This festival falls on the month of thai which is the traditional month
of tamilians. It generally falls in the month of January .
Pongal is a sweet dish which is a concoction of rice, moongdal, jaggery
and milk.
It is a thanks giving ceremony in which farmers celebrates the event to
thank the jovial spirit of nature, the sun and the farms that help them
to provide the best harvest.
Pongal is four day long festival, and is the most scared one to hindus.
The first day- is bhogi festival, to honour lord indra, the god of rain,
people pay their homage to them in order to thank them for the rains,
and abundance of rains.
Second day- is a ceremonial worship which is performed when the rice is
boiled in the milk, and is offered to sun god.
Third day -is called mattu pongal, in which multicoloured beads,
tinkling bells , flower bells are tied around the neck of the cattle and
aarti is performed to the.
Fourth day- is kanunum pongal, on this day turmeric leaf is washed and
is placed on the ground, the sweet pongal and venn pongal, betel leaves
are served.
The idea of celebrating this festival is social cohesiveness and brings
all the caste and creeds together. It is a heartfelt thanks giving to
the cattles who have ploughed the fields, to show them gratitude they
are bathed and painted red and blue. Pooja is offered to them, this is
called mattu pongal.
Thai pongal is a festival of bringing together the families together,
reliving and understanding the old traditions with a remix of new blood.
Thai pongal is a festival of peace, unity and compassion.
Pongal is celebrated as mahasakranti in north india. In Sanskrit it
means movement of sun from one zodiac sign to another. It represents
the period of happiness, illumination and affluence.
A major harvest festival to the land of festivals, india. It is
celebrated on the day of fourteen of January every year with great
enthusiasm. Traditionally this festival signify that the length of day
and night remains the same. It also signifies the end of inauspicious
phase , welcoming of summers. It is known with different names in
different states that is it is in tamil nadu it is called pongal. In
himachal Pradesh it is called ‘maghi’
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