TEEJ
Teej is a festival celebrated by Nepali women for the long life of her husband and a long and firm relationship between them until the death this life and all the live to come.Teej is observed for marital happiness,the well being of spouse and children and purification of own body and soul. Teej is the most famous festival among Nepali women.
It is celebrated in Monsoon season primirily by girls and women by singing song,dancing ,dressing up with heena coloured hands and feet , wearing red , green or yellow clothes, jewellery and many more. Teej is dedicated to goddess Pravati and her reunion with Lord Shiva when lord Shiva accept goddess Parvati as his wife. Goddess Parvati is also known as Teej Mata. This festival contains three days long celebrations which combines sumptuous feasts as well as rigid fasting.The folk music,dances and women with red saris and more flavour to traditional values of teej. Most of the Nepali Hindu women sing, dance in the streets and also visit the temples in fasting mood.It is also known as Hartalika teej. The famous food item that women can enjoy this day are -
- Dal baati chauoma
- Gujiya
- Kheer
- Besan khadi
- Khasta khachoru
Mainly, it is celebrated in the month of Bhadra.These days it is becoming expensive to celebrate teej as the people seems to be competing in inviting relatives and friends for the dar eating and spending for for others rituals practise.
