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Lohri Celebration |
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Families gather on this festival and enjoy dinner. People particularly in Punjab and Haryana celebrate the Lohri with full eagerness and liveliness. Farmers in Punjab calculate the harvests and consider it as a symbol of regeneration of life.
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Lohri festival marks the beginning of the festival in India, the celebration of fire and fertility. Lohri is very imperative for women and newly wedded couple. The people throw peanut, rice puffs and popcorns into flaming fire while they dance and sing traditional Lohri songs.
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Lohri Festival
Lohri is a festival attached with the solar year. Usually Lohri festival is worship of fire. he wood crackles and burns, the fire blazes high, a circle of warmth on a cold winter's night.
Lohri is basically a festival dedicated to the Sun god. Lohri is generally celebrated in the outdoors by close friends and relative who get together and have a bonfire in the evening. Lohri festival is a happy time to celebrate by eating gajak, peanuts, and popcorn. It is the festival of singing traditional Lohri songs and shares the warmth of a bonfire with family and respected ones.
Before a week of Lohri, children start collecting firewood, hunting for wood that will burn well. A spirit of kind rivalry binds the community together and every one takes pride in making the largest and most impressive bonfire in their neighborhood. It is ended with prayers to Agni for good harvest.
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