This festival comes on the day before Makar Sankranti.
Lohri is considered a sign of winter and the arrival of spring. This festival is mainly celebrated on the occasion of harvesting of new crops.
Celebrate Lohri Festival 2024
Why do we celebrate Lohri Festival | History and Significance Behind Celebrating Lohri festival 2024?
The festival of Lohri is associated with the History of Dulla Bhatti. According to the story, Dulla Bhatti lived in Punjab during the reign of Emperor Akbar.
In addition to rob money from the rich zamindars, they liberated the Hindu girls being forcibly sold. He also arranged for Hindu girls to marry all those girls to Hindu boys and provided them with a dowry. Due to which he became the hero of the people of Punjab.
That is why even today, in Lohri’s songs, his name is definitely taken to express his gratitude to Dulla Bhatti.
It is known from the traditions and customs associated with Lohri that prehistoric stories have also been associated with it.
This fire is lit in memory of the yogic combustion of Sati, the daughter of Daksha Prajapati. On this occasion, married daughters are sent to ‘festival’ (clothes, sweets, Revdis, Phaladi) from the mother’s house.
What do We do on Lohri.?
The festival of Lohri is celebrated on 13 January. Lohri is a famous festival in North India.
In the open space at night, the family and the people of the neighborhood sit together on the edge of the fire and offer peanuts, revdis in the sacred fire.
Not only this, people celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm by standing around it and singing songs. This festival is very much for the newly married bride and the first child born in the family.
The festival of Lohri is associated with sowing and harvesting of the crop. In a way, it is an indicator of the new year for the farmer.
On this day, everyone gathers together with their relatives and friends and celebrates Lohri and wishes each other Lohri.
This festival comes on the day before Makar Sankranti.
Celebrate Lohri Festival 2024
Lohri is considered a sign of winter and the arrival of spring.
This festival is mainly celebrated on the occasion of harvesting of new crops. Traditionally, the festival of Lohri is celebrated to thank nature.
Celebrate Lohri Festival 2024
Lohri is celebrated in North India, especially in Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, a day before Makar Sankranti.
Celebrate Lohri Festival in Himachal Pradesh
Lohri is coming to wrap up the cold moments of life. It is believed that all the life, the warmth and warmth of Lohri keeps the winter bag tied outside the house and the spring season standing on the dehri gets an invitation to come inside.
Lohri is generally considered as the festival of eating Kurmurati items like Revdi, Peanut, Gachak. In Himachal Pradesh, even today, in the Punjabi style, large number of wooden pits are burnt till late night.
You have to sing a lot, dance and drink. But some regions of Himachal also have their own Lohri which is called Maghi.