Dipawali (Tihar) Second large festival In Nepal

Nepal is a country of festivals. Every now and then we have a festival. It is because of Nepal’s centuries old heritage and its great culture diversities. All different religious and ethnic groups have different cultural festivals.However, Dipawali is the one, which is united and most pompously celebrated. It is celebrated by almost all the communities and all religious, no matter its importance is various in different communities.

Depawali is in fact the festival of light. Thousands of oil lamps are lit in or around the house. Its preparation stats a few days before the festival. People clean all the house and all around. The house is white washed or painted. Dipawali begins with the festivals of crow. People offer prayer and good food to crows. The next day is the festival of dog. ON this day dog is offered good food and people pray with flowers and garlands.

The following day is the festival of cow. It is also known as Laxmi puja. Hindus regard cow as Laxmi. Hence, on this day the cow is offered prayer and good food. Hindus believe that if Laxmi becomes happy, they are offered a lot of wealth. IN the evening of this day, every house and shop offers bridal out look. Here is a great rush especially at the sweetmeat and crackers shops.

On the next fay is also celebrated in the same way. This day is known as ox-Tihar and oxen are offered prayer. The last day is vai-tika. On this day brothers are offered prayer by their sister. Hindus believe that by doing this their brothers are secured for long life with prosperity.People celebrate this festival in carious ways. Children are seen happiest enjoying the festival. But it is a pity, however, that may foolish people celebrate this holy day with bouts of drinking and night-long gambling. Many of them get ruined and repent afterwards. Some children catch fire while playing with crackers.

If we are only cautious about the drawbacks of misusing the festival they bring joy in our lives. So Dipawali is the send biggest festival of Nepal it brings lots of enjoyment and happiness in our life all relatives are together in this festivals , and all Nepali festivals are helping for the unity and help with each other in summery we can say that main aim of all festivals are to maintain peace and unity with all types of peoples and society and all Nepali are known about it all lives in single nation with different types of religious and tradition so we should respect and learn more from Nepal and Nepali peoples.