Lohri day is celebrated on 13 January every year in India. People all across North India look forward to Lohri, an important harvest festival which is very popular in the region. Celebrated primarily by people of the Hindu and Sikh communities, Lohri holds a lot of significance and importance for the two communities.
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Lohri is one festival that marks the end of the winter solstice and the beginning of the new harvest season, the name of the festival itself has a lot of historic significance. Cultural stories dictate that Lohri originates from the word, ‘Loh’- which means a big griddle or a tava, used in community feasts. Another tale says the word pays homage to ‘Loi’, who was the wife of Hindu saint Kabir Das.
Lohri holds great significance because it is a harvest festival. Held a day before Makar Sankranti, agricultural communities and farmers pray to God for a good harvest season. The festival holds even more important if there has been a happy event in the family such as the birth of a child or a marriage in the past year, signifying fertility and prosperity.
