How do we celebrate the Holi festival in India?
- Admin
- Mar 4
- 2 min read
Color, who doesn't like it? Indeed each color holds a true meaning behind it. Although it used to be the dimensions that our human eye sees. It also has a great impact on a person’s emotions like enthusiasm, joy, and so on.
Carnival of Colors
Apart from this, holi festival does influence to go the extra mile to treat all equally. On this day, people wear fresh clean dresses and gather around with their peers. People used to spray colors or water mixed with colors and wipe out the color differentiation among us.
Why do we celebrate Holi festival?
Holi festival occurs on the day of the full moon in the month of Falgun and comes in feb-mar months. It happens to be the panguni month in Tamil.
Holi stands to be a fest play and players spray and put the colored water on others in their street.
Not only that but the energetic players yell like ‘holi hai’ in Hindi which means happy holi/its holi.
However, the colors happened to be natural which we take from the plants. Similarly, green from neem, red from pomegranate, yellow in turmeric, etc. The color hues were then mixed with water and sprayed from the water guns.
Nowadays, all the herbal colors have faded away and we started using artificial colors that affect skin irritation. Hence, one must be careful and wash it off to put on neat clothes at the end of the Holi fiesta.
Moreover, the Holi celebrations may go beyond the control and cross the limits. Hence the police officials keep an eye out always during the Holi festival.
FAQs
What is the importance of the Holi festival?
We celebrate the holiday to boost up our core slogan ‘unity in diversity’. Although people look different with all skin types and combinations, we throw color to make them all the same. Even the lord Krishna used to play Holi with his friends and gopis(women friends) so Holi began.
How do the Indian people observe the color festival?
People from India often celebrate the festival season of Holi with all types of colors. Not only that but also they serve sweets such as gujiya, jalebi, and malpua.
Savories like kachori chaat and the drink called lassi have been popular foods too. Lastly, they have music and fun activities along with the spreading of color and love.
What do we mean by ‘holi hai’?
Holi hai is a word in the language of Hindi, India. It means ‘its holi’ in the English language. The people who play Holi throwing colors all around are Holi players. The Holi play has been known as ’ Holi khelna’ in Hindi.
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