Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Country Pongal

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The Pongal festival has something special than any other festival, where this only festival celebrates for 4 days. In foremost years, cultivation was the only main source of lives, so celebrating this in pomp way still continues till now for four days as Bhogi, Pongal, Maatu Pongal & Kaanum Pongal. In villages, welcoming pongal is such delight, so as cleaning the houses, whitewashing, coloring, and keeping surrounding clean and dignity, to draw kolam (drawing) to look better the place to make pongal. The pongal is mostly prepared with new rice, from the harvested paddies before some days to pongal, with newly grown sugarcanes without dullness of its greenish, turmeric bunch and vegetables, with newly did oven. Oven, not to think the one in our kitchens, it’s made out of three pieces of mud clays, that kept for dry a week before painting colors or to daub the dissolved bull dung on the old ovens to make burn with palm leaves.

The day before pongal is Bhogi. The things that remains after cleaning houses and those useless things to thrown away are burnt in front of there gateway. By this they believe the adversity clears and welfare spreads. On pongal, the elders in house wake up early to bath before sunrise, to lit oven and decorated mud pots to arrange in count of newly married couples, from one to three pots to prepare pongal. After worshiping sun and nature, the pongal pots brought into home for special prayers. The next day was Mattu Pongal (Bull Pongal). It’s the day to honor the bulls, which strongly support to cultivation and cultivators. On that day, bulls are bathed and there stalls been cleaned, to prepare small pongal within stalls, later the pongal is served little to bulls and distributed to others. On that day bulls are let free and mostly unused to works.

In some towns and cities in Tamil Nadu, on the bull pongal day they conduct bull catching festivals - known as Jallikattu, and other games that kept front bulls. The fourth and final day of festival is called Kaanum pongal. On the usual process, people go out with there families to beaches, temples and tourist space and spent there whole day entertaining themselves, forgetting there hard works and spared freely. Similarly the whole villages celebrate these four days happily and the main reason it continues for thousands of years celebration is because of its simply peoples friendly. As its needs no big worship or prayers, the only intention of this festival is happy celebrations. Let’s celebrate the Pongal, welfare to spread and delight to sunshine in our lives.

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14 comments:

Jeeves said...

Happy Pongal

Kavi said...

Pongal Nalvazthukkal !

Keshi said...

Happy Thai Pongal Jeevan!

where's my share of Indian delicacies and the milk-rice ur mum made?


Keshi.

Vishesh said...

Happy pongal :D went to the sanghamam yesterday :)

Rakesh Vanamali said...

Jeevan, wishing you a happy pongal!

Lakshmi said...

As kids we only used to wish each other maatu pongal..happy pongal to you and take care

Annie Wicking said...

Best wishes to you for your special time, Jeevan.

I find it is so interesting to read about your part of the world.

(((Hugs)))

Annie

Devika Jyothi said...

I'm late,

Wish you a Happy Pongal, my dear

Nice reading, again..
i can see a very pure mind in these words...

love, always
devika

Priya said...

Happy Pongal Jeevan.

starry said...

Happy Pongal Jeevan.,loved reading all about pongal.

Ramyah said...

Happy ponggal jeevan!
May Thai showers blessing on all.

Miladysa said...

Very interesting post Jeevan! Thank you for sharing this with us :D

Happy Pongal!

Sameera Ansari said...

Belated Pongal wishes buddy!Hope you and your family had a great time :)

krystyna said...

Take my belated wishes dear Jeevan.

Happy Pongal!