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1. Importance of Holi and Dhulandi both days.
2. What is the reason behind celebrating Holi?
3. How it is played in different parts of country?
4. Small experience of how it was played by you?
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As we all know that holi is the festival of colours and it is celebrated differently across the world. It is a Hindu religion festival but nowadays it is celebrated by other religion followers also.
Today, Holi is also celebrating in various parts of the Asia.
On Dhulandi we burn Holika as we are burning the all evil spirit of our society.
And we all know that holika dahan is the main part of holi and it is done to represent the killing of holika by Lord vishnu in order to save prahlad.
On this day, pyres are burnt in both the countries, Nepal and India. The burning fire represents the burning of devil, Holika.
Importance....
● As we all know that the Dhulandi marks the end of evil spirit, so it us performed in our nation in order to mark the end of all bad things or evil spirits.
● We know that holi is the festival of colours and it brings love , respect and colours in everyone's life, that's why it is very popular and important in our nation.
● As we know the story behind dhulandi and Holi, It shows the victory of good over bad and tell us that we all must do right things in our life.
● It gives a moral that no matter how much powerful your enemy is, always the victory is of good spirit.
Reason behind playing Holi....
King Hiranyakaship had earned a boon that made him indestructible and because of such super powers , he becomes blind and more aggressive and finally he started believing that he was a God for all the people and told everyone that they will worship only him otherwise he will kill that particular person.
But his own son Prahlad disagreed him and started worshipping the lord vishnu. this made Hiranyakaship more arrogant and sometimes in aggression he used to of giving cruel punishments to his own son. But still he worship only Lord Vishnu and neglected the all wordings of his father, Hiranyakaship.
Holika , prahlad's evil aunt tried to kill him by sitting in a pyre. Holika was wearing a cloak which protects her from the fire whereas prahlad had not wear any kind of such cloak.
as the fire started burning, the cloak flew away from holika and encased prahlad and at last holika burnt, prahlad survived and Lord Vishnu killed prahlad's father, Hiranyakaship.
Today , the pyre is a reminder of the victory of good over evil.
How it is played in various part of our country....
In various part it is celebrated quite differently...
In Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Bihar, Punjab it is celebrated similarly..people or kids living there wake up early in the morning and go out of the house in order to colour each other before the other person. Small kids take their filled balloon with them and start playing in groups...temples are decorated and in evening people go to each other's home and share the all about things happened on that day with each other.
Khadi holi is played in the uttarakhand.
in that kind of holi the people living there wears different traditional cloths and uses different types of colours to colour each other .
Lathmar holi is played in the village of barsana and nandgao.
As we know that the men mainly go from nandgao to barsana with their colours similarly like Krishna to colour the all Gopis living there. Shri Krishna used to go there at this event to colour the gopis and especially Radha. The women use lathis or stick to welcome the men.
In maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh it is known as Rang panchami , the name is different but the method of celebrating is almost same as celebrated in north part of India.
In assam it is known as Phakuwah. It is played in basically two days one day they burn all the clay houses as the holika dahan and on other day , they play with colours.
In west Bengal it is known as Basant Utsav and Dol Jatra. here , they celebrate basant utsav to welcome the spring season And on Dol Jatra they wear their traditional cloths and dance to show their happiness, love, respect towards each other.
On holi , I am used to wake up early in the morning and to fill all the balloons with coloured water and as soon as possible we slowly go out of our houses in order to colour each other before the another person and I prefer to play holi in group and in evening we all went to each others home with sweets and gifts and share all the things of that day together and I love to spent the day with my family and friends.
Holi - Festival of Colors
Introduction :
Holi is the festival of colors, mainly celebrated by the people of hindu community. Although, many peoples from non-hindu communities, also celebrate this festival with great joy and excitement. According to the hindu calendar, it is celebrated in the month of 'Phalgun' on full moon day.
The Holi celebration :
Holi is celebrated by coloring each other's face with colors, either it is dry or water colours. Their is ritual that, one day prior to Holi, 'Holika Dahan' is conducted. In this dahan, people collects the wood from forest and burn it. This ritual symbolises the end of evil and all the negative powers. Peoples celebrate Holi with great enthusiasm. Children mostly enjoy the festival by throughing water colours with 'pichkari'.
Legend behind Holi :
Before celebrating any festival, there is a legend behind it. So, behind Holi celebration, their is a legend. It is said that, once upon a time, there was a devil named 'hiranyakashyap', he thought himself to be God. He'd not allowed any one to worship God. But his son named 'Prahlad' was devotee of lord vishnu. He tried to kill him but was failed.
So he called his sister 'Holika', she had got blessings from lord Brahma, that she'll not burn in fire. She took Prahlad and Sat in the fire. But by the God's grace, he was saved and Holika was burnt in that born fire. From that day, every year people celebrate Holi and Holika dahan.
My Experience :
In this holi, I enjoyed a lot. In the morning, I with my family went to my village to attend puja. After that, we played holi by applying colours on each other's face.
Conclusion :
Holi is the festival of colors, on which people forget their all the worries and tensions and celebrate Holi. This festival spreads love among people. People forget their hatreds and celebrate Holi with their enemies also. We should celebrate Holi with great enthusiasm.
