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Lohri is a popular winter Dogra [2] [3] and Punjabi [4] folk festival celebrated primarily in Northern India and in the Punjab region located in Pakistan. [note 1] The significance and legends about the Lohri festival are many and these link the festival to the Duggar region [2] and Punjab region. [6]
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Lal Loi is the Sindhi term for the Punjabi winter folk festival of Lohri. [3] [4] It is celebrated in some parts of the Pakistani province of Sindh by the Hindus and also celebrated by Sindhi Hindus in India. On the day of Lal Loi children bring wood sticks from their grand parents and aunties and light a fire burning the sticks in the night ...
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Besides Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs, Lohri is also celebrated by Dogras and other people of Jammu, [106] people of Haryana and people from western and southern half of Himachal Pradesh. [107] According to Chauhan (1995), all Punjabis, including Sikhs, Muslims and Christians celebrate Lohri in Punjab, India. [108]
Lohri is about celebrating happy events that have occured at the host family's home in the last year. It is celebrated around bonfire. There is no established link with the other sited festivals. If Lohri was a harvest festival it would have been celebrated primarily by farming community. However it is celebrated by every one in Punjabi society.
[4] [5] whereas it is known as Maghi Sangrand or Uttarain (Uttarayana) in Jammu and Sakrat in Haryana, Maghi is celebrated on first day of the month of Magha of Hindu Calendar. It follows on the heels of the mid-winter festival of Lohri which is marked by bonfires in North Indian fields and yards. The next morning Hindus see as an auspicious ...
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