Best of India Contest || My Favorite Festival || Holi 🎈

hello everyone, I hope you all are doing great and amazing. i recently came across this amazing contest about your favorite festival and i am super excited for this contest.

One of my favorites festival is HOLI. I always enjoy Holi with my family and friends. this festival is something which I think everyone enjoys. people of every age group enjoy this festival.

HOLI
Holi is a festival of colors and enjoyment. it is a Hindu festival and mainly celebrates in India and Nepal. it is celebrated on full moon day in the month of Phalgun (March). there are mainly two holi known as choti holi and badi holi.
Choti holi is basically celebrated by womens where they worrship the pile of dried woods kept as a holika.
Prayed for their children and family.

BACKGROUND

According to mythology it is believe that the there was a king named as Hirnakashyap always praised demons but his son Prahlad did not like his attitude towards god and went to worship lord vishnu and always chant the gods name in every situation and this belief of his son in god angry him to to core.

he got so angry with his son's behavior that he decided to through prahlad into flames of Holika (who is demon and hirnakashyap's sister). prahlad chant his god's name and happily went into the flames and instead of his death, holika burnt into her own flames and burnt till her death.

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When nothing works to kill his son finally he decided to tied his son to a pillar and plans to burnt that pillar nut instead of this god Narsimba appeared and killed his atheist father with his nails and spilt his body into half.
after that this day was celebrated as Holi.

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That is the reason behind people celebrating choti holi and burnt the pile of woods.

This is the picture of us celebrating choti holi.

CELEBRATION AND FOOD

Main celebration start on the second day. badi holi is the day where the celebration began, all people plays with colours, balloons, water ballons and water. everyone applies colours to each other and greet each others.
On this day a special sweet is made from whole wheat flour and dried fruit and semolina stuffing.

Despite of extreme celebration and happiness people do misbehave on this auspicious day by drinking alcohol and illegal stuffs and what not. but I always love this festival as I loves to play this festival with colours along with my love ones and friends. friends are the main reason why everyone loves this festival. Its always beautiful and crazy to plaay holi with friends as sometimes its get wild as they do tears each others shirt and plays with mud, but it was fun.

That's all about my post and i hope you all like my post and i am excited to see all entries.