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Holi Festival

January 22, 2022

Holi Festival 2023-History and Celebration

Happy Holi Celebration
Happy Holi Celebration

Holi Festival 2022 – Holi is the religious festival of Hindus, which is originating from the Indian Subcontinent. Basically, it celebrates in India, but at present time it celebrates all over the world. Holi is celebrated by the Hindu community that marks the arrival of the spring season. Holi is referred to generally as the Festival of Colors. It celebrates more than two days and is considered a festival of fruitfulness, color, and love. The Holi festival commemorates the victory of good over evil.

In this article, we discuss the history of Holi, how to celebrate Holi in different countries, and many more. If you know more about Holi, please read this article till the end.

Table of Contents

  • Holi Definition in English
  • History of Holi
  • Holi Festival 2022 Date
  • Holi Festival 2022 India
  • Holi in South India
  • Holi in Nepal
  • How to Celebrate Holi
  • Holi Quotes and SMS
  • Holi 2021 Date Calendar
  • How to Celebrate Holi in an Eco-Friendly Way
  • How to Celebrate Holi in School
  • Why We Celebrate Holi in Hindi
  • Holi Facts
  • Lesser Known Facts about Holi
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Holi Definition in English

Holi is a Hindu spring festival, which is celebrated for two to five days every year. Basically, it is Commemorating Krishna’s dalliance with the cowgirls. Bonfires are lit and colored powder and water are thrown over celebrants

History of Holi

Holi History Image
Holi History Image

The Holi celebration is a primitive Hindu celebration with its social and cultural rituals. Holi story is very decent. It is referenced in the Dasakumara Charita, Puranas and by the famous writer and poet Kalidasa amid the fourth-century rule of Chandragupta II. The festival of Holi is additionally referenced in the seventh-century Sanskrit drama show Ratnavali. In the seventeenth century, the celebration of Holi got the interest of European merchants and British colonial staff. Different old versions of Oxford English Dictionary notice it, however with changing, phonetically derived spellings: Houly in 1687, Hooly in 1698, Huli in 1789, Hohlee in 1809, Hoolee in 1825, and finally Holi in releases distributed after 1910.

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Holi Festival 2022 Date

This year, the Holi festival will be celebrated on Friday, 18th March, and ends on Saturday, 19th March 2022.

Holi Festival 2022 India

Holi Celebration in India
Holi Celebration in India

In India, every year Holi festival celebrated at the beginning of the spring season. In India, celebrate the Holi festival with more spirit than Mathura, which is Lord Krishna’s birthplace. In 2022, the Holi festival will begin on Friday, March 18, and end on Saturday, March 19 in India. When Holi is celebrated, bright colors and joy and happiness soak each and every corner of every Indian state and bring much joy to the lives of the people. In fact, the Indian festival must be a part of the tour to India.

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Holi in South India

Traditional Holi Celebratio in South India
Traditional Holi Celebration in South India

Holi festival isn’t celebrated with as much intensity as that in the North part of India. But people do enjoy fun. The legend of Kamadeva is very predominant in this part of the country. The folk songs narrate the tragic history of Rati and Kamdeva. In any case, yet this celebration is considered as a festival of Love.

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Holi festival is very popular in Tamil Nadu and it is known as Kamadahana. The legend of Kamdeva is more predominant In Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The folk songs sung during the Holi festival are melancholic songs, which portray the tragic story of Rati, the wife of Kamdeva. Holi festival 2022 in kolkata also celebrate on same day.

Here the festival marks the victory of good over evil. However, the holi festival is also celebrated as the festival of Love.

Holi in Tamil Nadu
Holi in Tamil Nadu

In Tamil Nadu, Holi is known by three unique names. These names are-Kaman Pandigai, Kamavilas and Kama-Dahanam.

Holi in Anandpur Sahib
Holi in Anandpur Sahib

Holi in Nepal

Holi festival Celebration in Nepal
Holi Festival Celebration in Nepal

Holi festival also celebrated in Nepal. It is also a religious festival in Nepal, where they celebrate it with colors and joy. Holi celebration is getting increasingly more popular in Kathmandu. On these days, children are playing with a small balloon filled with colored water and water sprayer for a week before its main day of holi festival. In the holi festival, the boys and girls gather up and exchange colors. This festival is celebrated between family, friends, and colleagues. The big bunch of people gathers in front of Kumari Ghar at Kathmandu Durbar square and dances with the beat of the music and sprays the colors.

How to Celebrate Holi

Holi Celebration
Holi Celebration

It is a burning question that, how is holi celebrated in India. India is the biggest Hinduism country in the world and Holi is the biggest religious festival. In India, people spend Holi with full of joy. They enjoy this day smearing colored powder which is also known holi powder each other’s faces, throwing colorful water, dancing under water sprinklers and having some parties.

Bhang, a special kind of paste is also traditionally consumed as part of the holi celebrations. There are some special holi events like music, rain dances, and colors that are organized in large cities across India like Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. It’s possible to celebrate Holi with a local Indian family in Delhi and in Jaipur.

Why We Celebrate Holi in English

Holi Quotes and SMS

Some best holi quotes and message are given below-

  • May your life stay colored with colors of happiness, gaiety, fun, and laughter.  Happy Holi!
  • Colors bring so much joy and cheer to life. Wishing you a very Happy Holi!
  • Enjoy the festive spirit and the bright hues of life. Have a happy and blessed Holi!
  • May all the seven colors of the rainbow come together this Holi and bless your life with happiness and joy. Have a Happy Holi!
  • Wishing you a Holi full of fun and frolic. Eat gujiyas, dance like crazy. Enjoy. Happy Holi!!!
  • Hope your life be like a rainbow filled with colors of love, friendship, and happiness. Happy Holi!!
  • Hope God paints the canvas of your life with beautiful colors. Happy Holi to you and Family!!
  • So here comes the time to celebrate life with colors and enthusiasm. Lots of Love. Enjoy. Happy Holi!!
  • I hope your life always remains dipped in hues and blues. I wish you a very Happy and Colorful Holi!!
  • Wishing you a Holi full of fun and frolic. Eat gujiyas, dance like crazy. Enjoy. Happy Holi!!!
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Holi 2021 Date Calendar

holi date calendar
Holi 2021 Date Calendar

How to Celebrate Holi in an Eco-Friendly Way

Holi is one of the biggest religious festivals in India and some other countries. It is a colorful festival. People also have known “holi festival of colors”. There are many reasons to harm the environment while we celebrate holi festival.

Happy Holi Festival
Happy Holi Festival

Here we find out some ways of celebrating happy holi festival in an eco-friendly environment.

  • Celebrate the holi festival with natural colors.
  • Celebrate the holi festival in a dry way.
  • Plastic Bags and Balloons are avoided in the holi festival.
  • Celebrate the holi festival with natural flowers.
  • Irrelevant and artificial colors must be avoided.
  • Use less water in the holi festival.
  • Celebrate holi in the community.
  • Do not throw colors on animals.
  • Burn the waste after the end of holi.

How to Celebrate Holi in School

Holi Celebration in School
Holi Celebration in School

Holi festival comes with lots of joy and happiness for the children and when it comes to children we all know how much they love to play with colors. So when Holi has come, they enjoy and play with colors in school. Here we share some ideas on how to celebrate Holi in schools to enhance the joy of celebration of the Holi festival and teach them the real importance of this colorful festival.

Organizing the Rangoli competition in school is a suitable activity for little older children. In this competition, give them paper sheets and tell them to smear glue on these sheets. Also, they use colored sand, or colorful confetti of colorful paper to smear on the paper in designs of their own choice. I am very much sure you will be amazed to see their creative designs.

There are some other ideas that are- Painting and Cake decorating competitions. Holi celebration in school is also known as the “Holi festival for kids”.

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Why We Celebrate Holi in Hindi

Holi is one of the ancient Hindu festivals.  There are various Vedic and mythological directions to celebrate Holi. In the Vedic period, the feast was called ‘ Navananeshati ‘. On this day, farmers Havan the adhapake grains of their farm and share the offerings of God.

Hindu Devotees celebrate ho
Hindu Devotees celebrate holi

Aganidev is the day of worship. The day of Holi is also a weapon for this reason, for the day of Holi as the Lord Manu was born, so it is also called Manavaditithi.

Holi is an ancient festival; Holi has been celebrated since the birth of the Isai deity Jesus Christ many centuries ago. Jaimini’s Puravamimasa Sutra and Kathak Garahay in the Sutra also get a description of Holi. The Parch is a temple of the 16th century is a temple located in the Hampi Nagar of Vijayanagar in which there are many scenes of Holi in which the Prince and Princess are colored on each other, including their slaves.

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There are many reasons to celebrate Holi and as per the Shiva Purana, the daughter of the Himalayan mother Parvati was doing tenacity to marry Lord Shiva, and God Shiva was absorbed into the Shiva spiritual practice. Then Lord Indra ordered Cupid to go and use Cupid born on Lord Shiva. Cupid used Cupid Bon on Adeshanusar Lord Shiva in Indra, so indignant by Lord Shiva in Bhas Cupid. Based on this narrative, it is the spirit of Kamavasana in Holi to be a symbolic way of true love.

One day King Prithu asked his Rajapurohit to kill the Dhudhi demons, Rajapurohit said, “Maharaja if the Falgun is not a winter, the full moon of the flesh, nor the warmth of the day, all the small children of the state take a wood Keep one place and Pujan the Aganidev and Lakadayo the Aganidev, then Dhudhi demonic will die. The King Prithu did the same and when the small lad aganideved, the Dhudhi demons came there to kill the BALCO, but as soon as he got to the fire with the effect of Pahuuchi fire and mantra He died carbonization with the same fire. The same day began to orbit Holi.  By doing this orbit, the small BALCO does not have any kind of blah or difficulty.

Happy Holi Festival
Happy Holi Festival

Holi Facts

Here are some facts about the Holi festival. They are-

  • Holi is the national festival in India and all the states of India celebrate the Holi festival.
  • Holi festival depends on Indian mythology of good triumphing over evil and sometimes Holi is considered as a festival of love.
  • Holi festival is used to mark the start of the spring season.
  • In Holi, The colorful powders are used in the festival have different meanings. The red color symbolizes love and fertility, the yellow color is considered the color of the natural remedy turmeric, the green color symbolizes spring, and the blue color symbolizes Lord Krishna.
  • Holi festival celebration is scheduled based on the cycles of the moon.

Lesser Known Facts about Holi

There are some lesser-known facts about the Holi festival.

  • Holi considered for the victory of good over evil.
  • Holi celebrated on Falgun Purnima.
  • Prahlad and Hiranyakshyap Legend
  • Prahlad and Holika
  • Legend of Radha Krishna
  • Death of Ogress Pootana
  • Legend Lord Shiva and Kamadeva
  • Holika Dahan

So, that’s the end of the article about the Holi festival 2022. If you have any queries or questions about this article, please send us your valuable comment. We will try to reply to your comment as soon as possible.

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