The harvest festival of Punjab is Lohri. Celebrated with lots of pomp and show with Bonfire, song and dance of Bhangra and Gidda. Lohri is the celebration of the shortest day of the year and that is the main reason a bon fire is lit. Lohri marks the end of winter and the onset of summer. Lohri is celebrated the day prior to Makara sankaranthi. This is also the last of the financial year of the Punjabis. Lohri rents are collected and new agricultural aggrements are made.
What people do normally on Lohri?
During the day, the kids go to every house and sing folk songs. Those kids are given sweets, savouries and money too. The kids are regarded highly on this day and so it is regarded inauspicious to send them back empty handed. The collections include sesame seeds, crystal sugar, jaggery, peanuts and corn. It is then distributed to all during the bonfire. And little of these items are thrown into the fire too.
Though all the people of Punjab celebrate Lohri, the lighting of bonfire differes from location to location. Some parts sing songs in praise of Lohri goddess and some normal folklore songs. The bonfire is light at the sunset in the village square and people toss sesame seeds, jaggery, sugar candy, popcorn into it and sing and dance around the fire till the fire dies out. During the born fire, popcorn, chikkis, milk is distributed to all the villages.
Apart from these, people fly kite too as a part of Lohri festival. People go to roof tops and fly kites of various colours.
Lohri being a very important festival, it is celebrated with more excitement in those families that recently had a marriage or had a child birth. Apart from the public Lohri celebrations, Punjabis celebrate Lohri in their own house too and a heavy dinner is served for the guests. The dinner includes Sarson da saag and makki di roti.
What people do normally on Lohri?
During the day, the kids go to every house and sing folk songs. Those kids are given sweets, savouries and money too. The kids are regarded highly on this day and so it is regarded inauspicious to send them back empty handed. The collections include sesame seeds, crystal sugar, jaggery, peanuts and corn. It is then distributed to all during the bonfire. And little of these items are thrown into the fire too.
Though all the people of Punjab celebrate Lohri, the lighting of bonfire differes from location to location. Some parts sing songs in praise of Lohri goddess and some normal folklore songs. The bonfire is light at the sunset in the village square and people toss sesame seeds, jaggery, sugar candy, popcorn into it and sing and dance around the fire till the fire dies out. During the born fire, popcorn, chikkis, milk is distributed to all the villages.
Apart from these, people fly kite too as a part of Lohri festival. People go to roof tops and fly kites of various colours.
Lohri being a very important festival, it is celebrated with more excitement in those families that recently had a marriage or had a child birth. Apart from the public Lohri celebrations, Punjabis celebrate Lohri in their own house too and a heavy dinner is served for the guests. The dinner includes Sarson da saag and makki di roti.
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