short paragraph on holi
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Holi is a religious Hindu festival. It has its own religious significance of celebration. Popularly, it is known as Phagua or festival of colors or Dol Purnima (in West Bengal). Generally, it falls in the month of March (Hindi month-Phalgun). It is two days long festival; first day is celebrated as Holika Dahan and second day as colorful Holi. There is a myth of burning Holika at Holika Dahan by setting fire to the large heap of woods, co-dung cakes, etc. Women of the houses perform different types of rituals at Holika Dahan according to their culture and tradition. Celebration of Holi related to the Hiranyakashyap, Prahlad and Holika.
On the next day, people spray colored water on each other on the streets to celebrate colorful holi. At this day, no one becomes angry and play with each other. At this occasion, people gets involved in cleaning homes, arranging goods for delicious recipes, purchasing, etc from few days ago. At some places, there is a ritual of drinking thandai as cold drink.
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celebrated in South Asian countries, especially in India and Nepal. Holi is the festival of colours. The festival is celebrated for two to three days. People pour colored water on each other and cook many types of sweets and other food. Holi is celebrated in the spring season because it is welcoming spring. Hindus believe that spring is full of colours so they throw coloured water on each other.
Holi is based on a legend about King Hiranyakashipu. `Hiranyakashyapu had a son, Prahlad. Prahlad was the greatest devotee of Lord Vishnu. Hiranyakashyap wanted to kill his son, so he called his sister, Holika. She had a magic robe. This robe had the power to save the wearer from burning in fire. Hiranyakashyap ordered his sister to sit on a burning fire along with Prahlad. He thought that his sister would not be harmed by the fire because of the magic robe and Prahlad would be burnt to death. But the result was the opposite to what the evil demon king planned.