Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Our Favourite Festival "Tihar"

Nepal is a multi language, multi culture, multi religion, and multi parti system country. There are many language and many culture but they believe in every language and culture each other. most of the people of this country follow Hindu and other people are Buddhist, Cristian, Muslim also. different society of nepal like Hindus and Buddhist, celebrate Tihar. Muslim society also celebrate the Tihar festival. All neplese people like to celebrate it. not only nepal but also Indian people celebrate the Tihar festival in India. Nepalese people celebrate Tihar festival in diffrent country like in Malesya, Singapur, Honkong, Quatar, UK, America etc. Tihar is gretest festivals of Nepal . This festival is also know as dipawo in nepal and Diwali in India. we can identify it as a symbol of love between brothers and sister. the grayest festival of Nepal 'Thar' generally falls in the month of October. me celebrate it for five days. the first day is called Kag Tihar. people worship and feed to crow as a messenger of yam. the second day is called Kukur tihar. people calls dogs and worship them by offering them delicious foods. the third day is Gai tihar (the caw festival). the cow is supposed to be the in carnation of laxmi. people believes that the cow is a symbol we laxmi. when they can get to worship to the cow people feels happy. in the evering every house is full of light. people play vailo in the evering by visiting every door, singing songs and collecting money and sweets. in this evening people make sweets in every house. houses are decureted with colourful lights and lamps to we i come the goddess laxmi. the fourth day is the ox - festival people worships and fed good foods and toox.
The five day is the main day of Tiha its called bhaitika. on this day sister give a tika to their brother and wish them a long life. they also offer sweets, fruits, drinks and other foods. Brother offer presents and money to their sister. people play deusi visiting door to door with singing and collecting money and sweets. people forget all pain sadness and money less. they shame happy with each other.

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