Dear All,
As in January month, there are some festival comes in this month, like New Year Celebration, Pongal, Utrayan and other some festivals. Here we will see the basic information about Pongal Festival generally known as a Thai Pongal.
Thai Pongal is a harvest festival dedicated to the Sun God.
Duration of Pongal festival: It is a four-day festival which according to the Tamil calendar is usually celebrated from January 14 to January 17.
Region of Pongal festival: Thai Pongal corresponds to the harvest festival celebrated throughout India.
Let’s understand some meaning behind the festival name
Thai refers to the name of the tenth month in the Tamil calendar, Thai.
Pongal usually means festivity or celebration; more specifically Pongal is translated as “boiling over” or “overflow.”
Pongal is also the name of a sweetened dish of rice boiled with lentils that is ritually consumed on this day.
Symbolically, Pongal signifies the gradual heating of the earth as the Sun travels northward toward the equinox.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Pongal