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Locals in Krishnapur Municipality-6 is very busy, with only a few days left for the Maghi festival, people have a busy schedule.
They are going to prepare the necessary materials to welcome the guests to the Maghi festival. Especially, the women are engaged in pickling Sal leaves and making Duna, Tapari (leaf plates), bringing firewood, and fishing.
Women are not comfortable with the things needed to make sweet cakes, to make wine at home, and to make Dhikri, a dish for guests in Maghi. Since the Maghi festival can start from the last day of Poush, preparations should have been made before them.
The real preparation to review the work is done throughout the year. The process on inviting sisters, relatives and friends to participate in the Maghi festival which has been started.
The women of the family plan the house and the women of the village, make the village plans throughout the year. It includes marriage, share, development and construction.
In order to catch fish, they used to kill them individually and collectively in rivers and ponds.
After the use of milled rice in the Kutani-Pisani mill was promoted, women no longer have to get up in the early hours of the morning to grind rice for Maghi. The Tharu community makes Dhikri, an original dish for the Maghi festival, from milled rice flour. Along with worshiping Dhikri deity, the guests are allowed to eat pork and fish. Searching for and killing pigs is done a day before the Maghi festival.
On the morning of the first day of Magh, taking a bath in the river pond is done to take the blessings of the elders of the house.
After bathing and returning home, it is customary to separate five to seven rings of rice, salt, and chilies for sisters, brothers, and nieces. After that, blessings are taken from the elders of the village and blessings are given to the children. After exchanging blessings, they sit with the dignitaries and eat specially made rice flour dhikri, bangur meat, andi rice jhol and various kinds of dishes.
Starting from the house of Wadgharia, Maghauta Chokra Nach is entertained by dancing from house to house of everyone in the village. Those, who dance in the Maghauta dance, show the art of raising money from their mouths and eyelashes like angels. At this time, the eagerness of watching the dance full of excitement is of a different kind. Such dances are now disappearing.
On the second day of the month of January, all the people of the village make a plan for the development, construction, marriage, and social work to be done throughout the year. The plans of previous years are reviewed. On this day, the Vadgharia who will take the lead in the implementation of the village plan is chosen.
According to religious beliefs, Guruba and Chowkidar are being selected to arrange news exchange in the village to remove diseases and divine disasters. The Tharu community considers Maghi as a new year because it marks the beginning of new work, birds change their speech, and trees grow new leaves.
“Discussions have been completed for the formation of a group of young women who will dance along with the arrangement of Madal for the dance organized during the Maghi festival. We have asked them to form a dance team and prepare for the dance", he said, "We are making preliminary plans for the collective work of the village", said Wadghar Ram Prasad Dagaura of Shuklaphanta Municipality-3 Jonapur.
“On this day, all the people of the village gather together to slaughter pigs. A day before the start of Maghi festival, the Tharu community of the village slaughters pigs, goats and chickens, but after the beginning of the month of Magh, it is forbidden to slaughter any animal,” said Narendra Prasad Chaudhary, the ward president of Shuklaphanta-3._Rss
photo credit: Holidays to Nepal
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