Tuesday 12 April 2016

How to impart the festival of Vaisakhi to the upcoming generation

The favourable festival of Vaisakhi is commemorated on the first day of Vaisakh month following the Nanakshahi almanac. Vaisakhi indicates the starting of the fresh spring time and the finishing up of the vintage and year’s growth of Rabi yield in India. This gala day is celebrated with a lot of eagerness in farming and cultivation controlled state of Punjab and Haryana.


The Significance: Spirited and lively festival of Vaisakhi is contemplated to be an exceptionally significant festival in India for numerous causes. Separately from being significant for the agriculturists as a harvest festival, this celebration is of main consequence in Sikhism as an inauguration day of Khalsa Panth. This day is also important and considered to be as pure for Hindus as well as on this day Arya Samaj was founded. Besides, Vaisakhi day is of the significance of the Buddhists as Gautama Buddha achieved insight and knowledge and moksha on this promising day.

Traditions and Rituals: Vaisakhi is a Punjabi festival and is of appreciable significance to the Punjabi sections all over the world. Vaisakhi ceremony and rituals are usually perceived at Gurudwara. The sacred holy writ of the Sikh group, the Guru Granth Sahib is freshened up using milk and water, after the bathing, the holy writ is placed back to the golden throne, Stanza from the sacred text were read out, with a point to copy the long-established procedure occurred in 1699.


How do people celebrate this Festival?
The masses in India celebrate Vaisakhi by dancing, capering, singing, relishing and dressing in holidays regalia, watching wrestling contest and amused by many processions that occur at this hours. People love the day off foods and particular treats with lots of sweetmeats. This festival bears a special importance to Sikhs. During the celebration, parade called Nagar Kirtan also builds their path along the roadside chanting religious songs from the holy book of reverence known as Guru Granth Sahib.


What type of dance do people perform & basically what do they wear?
In this event, Men dance the bhangra and women dance the Gidda to celebrate Vaisakhi. Dancing is one of the prime characteristics of Vaisakhi. To honour and salute the harvest festival of Vaisakhi, men and women slip into customary and traditional attires and get with each other in an open empty space and shake off to the fast stride beat of the dhol.

People generally wear a brilliant new dress to symbolise the occasion. Kurta and Lungi or Pyjama and turban are a particular dress for men while women go in for Salwar-suit or lehenga choli. Women further embellish themselves with heavy jewellery. Men’s kurta should be of bright hues as it can be commonly noticed in recent times. Men should normally use the hues like yellow which denotes mustard or sarson, green which denotes success and wealth, Red denotes favourable saffron is mostly selected for these and the fabric they should opt for is either cotton or some light material as this festival is normally held in the month of April which is quite a scorching hot month.



And along with the kurta for Men, another impressive feature of their dress is Turban or Pag. The turbans for men are ornamented with delta-shaped turla.  Men’s turbans are more spotlighted with a usage of golden lace work or embroidered work to gain more attention from the people. So, Men’s what are you waiting for? To grab the look of Punjabis in this Vaisakhi, select your bright coloured designer kurta along with a classy turban which will add an icing on the cake and get on the floor for Bhangra.


Gifting ideas what one should offer to their family, friends and relatives:
As it is one of the biggest and most cheerful festivals for the Sikhs, there prevail a powerful tradition of gifting on this Vaisakhi, especially with a gift of love. At this time, they really desire to overindulge their friends and family but people find it very confusing in choosing gifts. Generally, the gift includes a bouquet of flowers, sweetmeats, puja items, dry fruits, chocolate hampers and household gifts.

On the blissful occasion of celebrating Vaisakhi, Sikhs have all the fair causes to feel uplifted and pleasing because it refreshes their memory of the historic occasion when the new Khalsa human development was build that supplied them their way of living which they are savouring today.

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