WHY WE CELEBRATE LOHRI ?
Hi Readers! Hope you are doing well?.Festive season is still going on in India.Coming festival is LOHRI. Lohri is a popular winter time Punjabi festival, celebrated primarily by Sikhs and Hindus from the Punjab region. The significance about the Lohri festival are many and these link the festival to the Punjab region. Like most other festivals in India, Lohri is also related to the agricultural activities of the farmers. It marks the harvesting season in Punjab and the end of the winter season. Lohri usually falls on the last day of the month of Paush, a day known as Makar Sankranti in most parts of the country. According to the English calendar, Lohri falls on 13th January every year. In Punjab wheat which is the main crop being planted all over the place. Wheat is planted in the month of October and harvested during the months of March – April. In the first month of January, all the fields turn up with a promising golden harvest, and as such, farmers in the land are ...