Like we celebrate a special day as a thanks giving for a particular purpose or as honouring a person like our mothers day, fathers day, or to cite their importance like World Meteorological day, World water day and so on.
In Tamil Nadu, a state in India, we celebrate a harvest festival known as Pongal festival as thanks giving for our Mother Nature for providing us the needs for successful crop production. It doesn't stop with thanking nature, but also the cattle, that play an important role in agriculture, which we celebrate as Mattu pongal (for cattle), This is a brief about the harvest festival, Pongal, that is celebrated for four continuous days with different aspects.
Being bought up in this part of the world, this festival is imperative to me and most of us grown up here. This is a day where ever I am, I always want to be back in my home town to celebrate this festival with family. We enjoy it a lot. I have three siblings, most of the time, we all meet together on this day and we have a sportive spirit like whose pongal is going to be made first. So, this day is special for us, with lots of memories. Like us for some of you. If you have a chance to visit Tamil Nadu at this time of the year, you can enjoy the festival with tasty pongal and sugarcane.
Like this festival, different states and countries have different festivals related to agriculture. Enjoy them by knowing the reason for those festivals. It will definitely add aesthetics to our celebration and we can pass it on to our kids as they can also make memories.
Happy Pongal!
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