Lohri Festival 2020 | Why Food Items Put in Fire on Lohri?

What is the significance of Lohri festival?  Why are food items put in the fire on Lohri Festival?

Apart from peanuts, sesame seeds, Revdis, various types of gajak are offered as prasad in the night.  This material is called Tilchhauli.  By putting this material in the fire, God is blessed with the blessings of being rich.
Lohri festival is celebrated a day before Makar Sankranti.  It is one of the famous festivals for Punjabi people.  Now Lohri's splash is visible not only in Punjab but everywhere due to Punjabis settled in India and abroad.  There is also a popular folk tale behind the celebration of this festival that on the day of Makar Sankranti, Kamsa sent a demon named Lohita to Gokul to kill Krishna, who was killed by Krishna in a game.  The sacred festival of Lohita is celebrated to commemorate the same event.  Even in Sindhi society, one day before Makar Sankranti, this festival is celebrated as 'Lal Lahi'.

Religious significance 


 It is believed that on this day the earth starts facing the sun again from its distant point from the sun.  This festival is also a symbol of the arrival of happiness.  When this festival is celebrated in the first month of the year in January, the winter season is about to go.  This festival is celebrated in North India especially in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.  This festival brings excitement and enthusiasm in the farming community, because by this festival, their crop is ready for harvesting which they had sown and watered tirelessly.  When Lohri is lit on the night of the festival, it is worshiped with the hair of a new crop of wheat.

Feast of festivals

 The ways of celebrating this festival have also changed over time.  Even today in Punjab, this festival is celebrated in a traditional way, whereas in Delhi it has taken a modern form.  On this day in Punjab, it is common in all Gali mohallas that the daughter-in-law goes home singing folk songs and asks for Lohri.  The women who sing the folklore of Dulla Bhatti believe that Dulla Bhatti was a marauder during the reign of Maharaja Akbar but he was opposed to selling Hindu girls as slaves.  He saved them and got them married to Hindu boys.  Gratitude is expressed through the songs.

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 Celebrations are everywhere


 On this day, youths gather from place to place and perform bhangra on the beat of the drum and offer each other a compliment of Lohri.  Women also seem to be giving a new flight to the spirits, waving their picks amidst the greenery of the fields.  The women start preparing for this festival a few days in advance and gather in groups and make mehndi with different shapes in each other's hands.  Lohri has special significance for the new daughter-in-law and newborn in Punjab.  Along with distributing Revdi and groundnut, banquet of maize bread and mustard greens is also organized on this day.

Regardless of the city, devotees start gathering in gurdwaras from the morning itself.  In the evening, a DJ party is organized, and somewhere Bhangra is organized and fun is done.  Programs of Punjabi pop singers are held at most places in Delhi.  Preparation of Lohri in the markets also starts around a week.  Apart from peanuts, sesame seeds, revdi, various types of gajak are started selling.  All this material is offered in the form of prasad in the night bonfire.  This material is called Tilchhauli.  By putting this material in the fire, God is blessed with the blessings of being rich.

Legend of Dulla Bhatti 

 The people celebrating Lohri Lohri and its affiliates also connect Lohri festival with the folk tale of Dulla Bhatti.  It is believed that Pulli was a king of Bhatian during Akbar's era Dulla Bhatti Dulla Bhatti He was a marauder but he saved many girls from the abducted people from the slave market or slave market which was a great thing.

 Due to this, people at Lohri express their gratitude to Dulla Bhatti and his name is widely described in the folk tales of Punjab.  Mostly Lohri's song is based in Dulla Bhatti's good deeds.

Why Lohri is the most special for Punjabis

The famous festival of Makar Sankranti and Lohri is celebrated at the beginning of the year.  The festival of 'Lohri' is celebrated with great fanfare in Punjab, Haryana and neighboring states on the eve of Makar Sankranti.  Punjabi songs, laughter-filled atmosphere and lots of dance and singing throughout the night celebrate it.  Although Lohri is celebrated on January 13, but sometimes the date changes according to different calendars.
In such a cold weather, when the whole of North India comes to a standstill, people do not miss celebrating Lohri.  On the evening of Lohri, a fire is lit from the wood collected and people dance and sing round the fire and offer sacrifices, peanuts, kheel, maize seeds in the fire.


 Lohri holds special significance for Punjabis.  The house where the person is newly married or has a child is specially greeted.  Let us know what is the story behind the festival of Lohri

Origin of Lohri

 There are many beliefs about the origin of Lohri festival.  Many people believe that this festival is celebrated as a symbol of the arrival of winter season.  Lohri night is the biggest night of the year.  And the morning that comes after that night is highly illuminated and brightens up!

Custom


 On the morning of Lohri, young children go home to their neighbors to sing songs and ask for wood to burn the fire.  It is also known as Lohri loot in which they either ask for money or else to eat sesame, jaggery, groundnut etc.  Dulla Bhatti is the focus of Lohri's songs.  Dulla Bhatti was a rebel who robbed the rich and helped the poor and also got girls married.

Burn bonfire

 On the evening of Lohri, bonfires are also burnt.  In many places, the Gods of Lohri are also made and decorated with cow dung.  Then putting it down in the fire and then singing a song in praise of them, perform a collective dance around that bonfire.  Finally all are given prasad which includes sesame, gajak, gud, groundnut.

Dancing and singing


 Punjabi people are very fun-filled people, who like dancing and singing.  People wear colorful and bright clothes and perform Bhangra and Gidda dances together on the beat of a drum.

Lohri is a harvest festival


 Lohri is traditionally associated with the rabi crop!  People traditionally offer peanuts, flour, revdi, butter etc. to their religious place and thank God for their good harvest.

Festival 

 The Hindus also pay respect to Agni by dedicating water and water to the fire of this Lohri.  By doing this process, people thank Lord Surya for the support he has made in the process of life cycle and always ask for these blessings while maintaining his compassionate people.

 So that was all about the harvest festival of Lohri.  Hope you liked the blog as much as I liked writing it for you.

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