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Baisakhi 2018 Festival Celebrations in Punjab

Festival Significance and Date in Punjab

The most important festival of Punjab, Baisakhi is being celebrated within all people with complete happiness and pleasure and is also known as harvest festival. This festival is being celebrated all over Punjab and all the farmers geared up for this harvest festival with much pomp and feasting each and every year. Like every year, this year also Baisakhi festival is all set to come for celebration on April 14th 2018 and it is mainly marks the beginning of every year. This day is considered as one of the very significant days of Punjabi people and is especially being observed as day for giving thank by all farmers and their community to God for providing a healthy season of rabi crop and pray for giving beautiful weather and season ahead. This festival is considered more special for the people belong to Sikh community as on this auspicious day, the Khalsa Sect of Sikhism actually took birth and Khalsa was established which is called a collective group of initiated Sikhs.

If you are residing in Punjab or even roaming here around the festival of Baisakhi then you should surely go for visiting the traditional fares that occurs during Baisakhi festival only. Visiting to these fares will definitely gives you an unbeatable experience of different folk dances, traditional songs and several folklores and these fares takes place in so many places like Jammu, Kathua, Udhampur, Reasi, Samba etc. People from faraway places come here to enjoy this beautiful festival and experience the Sikh community traditions. The one of the ritual which is being performed during this festival is known as “Awat Pauni” in which people used to harvest their crops with dancing and full enjoyment on Dhol beats and also sing beautiful folk songs. One of the common and very old traditions is “Nagar Keertan” which also takes place during this festival in which people gather together and roam around the different places along with singing hymns and chants.

The large numbers of fares or melas take place different parts and areas within Punjab where you will find huge crowd of people enjoying the ride on the Jhulas along with delicious and spicy food items with your family and friends. You can also go for visiting the various Gurudwaras in order to enjoy the mouthful of delicious Kadha Prasad and also Langar which is considered as the common practice being and people used to enjoy this day by experiencing all this.

Category: Festival, India, Punjab

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