Makar Sankranti 2022: Facts about the Uttarayan festival
Makar Sankranti 2022: While Gujaratis look forward to shouting Kai Po Che to kites flying in the sky, the Uttarayan festival is much more than just worshipping and eating sweets. It contains several intriguing facts.
It’s that time of year again when the year’s first festival arrives. Makar Sankranti is celebrate with suitable pomp and ceremony throughout the country. Makar Sankranti, also known as the Uttarayan festival in Gujarat, is observe under various names, traditions, and practices.
Uttarayan festival is one of Gujarat’s most anticipated festivals, with activities ranging from flying kites to making sweets and feasting on delicious khichdi.
While Gujaratis look forward to shouting Kai Po Che to kites flying in the sky. The Uttarayan festival is about much more than worshipping and eating sweets.
It contains a number of intriguing facts.
Uttarayan has enormous astrological and traditional significance Uttarayan is observe when the sun moves from Sagittarius to Capricorn. Sweets, devotion, and khichdi are used to worship the sun god. According to the Hindu epic Mahabharata, King Bhishma was grant the boon of choosing his own time and day of death. He waited for Makar Sankranti to request cessation.
Uttarayan heralds the arrival of spring and the harvest season. Sweets, savories, and other food items are distribute among relatives, near and dear ones, and neighbors. As a message to let go of old grudges and begin the year on a positive note of hope, love, and togetherness.
Flying kites has health benefits – Kite flying is one of the main attractions of Gujarat’s Uttarayan festival. While it is now regarded as a sport, it was not always regrade as such it was once thought. That kite flying was associate with good health because the person would be disclose to the sun for an extended period.
Uttarayan was celebrate on December 31 many years ago the date of Uttarayan is postpone by one day. Every eight years due to the earth’s revolution around the sun. Uttarayan is thought to have been celebrate on December 31, a thousand years ago.
