10 point of pongal festival
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2. Pongal is celebrated in January when rice, sugarcane, turmeric etc are harvested.
3. Pongal is celebrated by others names such as : Lohri, Bihu, Makar Sankranti, Hadaga and Poki by people of different states in India.
4. According to Tamil calendar is usually celebrated from January 14 to January 17.
5. "Bhogi" is the first day of the four-day Pongal festival.
6. It is a festival celebrated widely in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana .
7. This four day long festival of Tamil Nadu is celebrated for showing gratitude to the nature.
8. The literal meaning of Pongal is "Spilling over" and it had been named so, because of the traditional of boiling rice in a pot till it start overflowing .
9. Other traditions of the celebration include drawing of Kolam, swinging and cooking of delicious Pongal.
10. Pongal, one of the most important popular Hindu festival of the year.
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Explanation:
1) Pongal is one of the biggest harvest festivals of the Hindu religion.
2) It is celebrated for four days in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, etc.
3) Pongal is also celebrated in Malaysia, Singapore, the US where south Indian people reside.
4) Pongal is also called “Thai Pongal”, related to the tenth month of the Tamil calendar.
5) The four-day celebrations during Pongal have different activities based on each day.
6) People generally pay their regards to god and other substances for their livelihood.
7) The word Pongal in Tamil means to “spillover” or to “overflow”.
8) Pongal is a festival related to the preparation of rice dishes as a part of a ritual.
9) A mixture of rice, jaggery, milk, lentils, etc is cooked and allowed to spill outside the pot.
10) As a custom, when rice gets spilled over the earthen pot, it is meant as abundance in the family.