Daw chu nyipai
Losar (Daw-Month, Chunyi-12th, Losar-new year/festival) is
celebrated every year on the 1st day
of the 12th Month of
the Bhutanese calendar. It is celebrated especially by the people of eastern
Bhutan. It is also referred to as Sharchokpai Losar which means the festival of the people
of the east. This day is celebrated like any other festivals.
Everyone gets
excited. People in the villages prepare way ahead for the day. Men get ready
with their game plans for the day while women gather all the special items to
be prepared for the day. In urban areas, all relatives get together and even
friends and neighbors get together to celebrate the day. On the day, early in
the morning, mom and dad prepares porridge and (Suja) butter tea for the
breakfast. After having breakfast, men go out to play various kinds of games
while women prepare lunch. After having prepared, women go to witness the match
with lunch and drinks. They sing and dance and enjoy the day together. Some
families especially in urban areas go out for a family picnic to some faraway
places to celebrate the day.
The day in
Bhutan is a national holiday and it is termed as a "traditional day of
offering". The history says that the day was in olden days a day people
celebrate the harvest of the year and a day they offer a share of their harvest
to their rulers and celebrate together. People especially in the east still
celebrate the day to remember the hard work of their forefathers and also to
keep alive the age old tradition of celebrating the harvest of the year.
Usually by this day, people in the village will have harvested everything and are
bit relaxed. So Chunyi pai
Losar is a day they celebrate
the fruit of their hard work that they have put in for the entire year.
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Why the festival is particularly reffered to as a sharchok pai losar?
ReplyDeleteBecause the Chunipa Losar is mostly celebrated by the people of the Eastern Bhutan (Sharchok -Eastern).
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