Lohri Festival 2015

Lohri Festival –2015

Lohri is a famous Punjabi festival and is a welcoming event for the starting of spring and farewell time for winter.  A grand Bonfire encircled by the group of folks dancing and singing marry-making Lohri song.

 People in huge groups gather in a large open field around the Bonfire. The newly-wed couples walk around the Bonfire and lay down Revadi, Peanuts and popcorn. To fire up the Lohri eve people dance on the tunes of Bhangra Music with all the musical instruments like Dhol, manjeera. 

This fantastic Punjabi Festival Lohri indeed fills millions of energetic vibes. Every year Lohri Festival falls on 13th January. It is a day before Makar Sankranti (time of Sun entering into Northern Hemisphere), a significant Hindu Festival. In some places Lohri also referred with different names, such as Makar-Sankranti in north India, Pongal in Tamilnadu, Sankranti in Karnataka, Bihu in Assam and Bhogi in Andhra Pradesh.

 The  reason of celebrating this festival is that Lohri word was originated from the word tilorhi (a combination of til and rorhi). Farmers celebrate Lohri as a beginning of the new financial year. Lohri is celebrated by the people in India with lots of joy and happiness like other festival. It is the festival which brings together all the family members, relatives and friends at one place. 

At this day people meet and enjoy distributing sweets to each other. It is a most famous harvest festival of great importance for the farmers. People light a bon fire at this day, then sing a song and dance around it. They throw some rewaries, popcorn, sugar-candies, sesame seeds, gur and other things in the fire while singing and dancing around the bonfire.

People get together in the evening after sunset where they lit a huge bonfire to the harvested fields. People make circle, sings song and dance around the bonfire. They throw some rice, popcorn or other eatables to the fire while shouting loudly as “Aadar aye dilather jaye” means they call lots of honour to home and remove poverty. 

They pray to their God Agni and Sun for the land abundance and prosperity. After the pooja ceremony they meet their friends, relatives, neighbours, etc and distribute greetings, gifts, Prasad and lots of wishes. They enjoy eating dinner of delicious foods like makki-ki-roti and sarson-ka-saag. They make kheer of sugar cane juice as a sweet dish to especially celebrate this day.