Teej- wonderfully celebrated festival
Teej is a festival magnificently celebrated by women all over Nepal for three days. Decked up in red saris and red tika, bangles, women sing and dance to traditional folk songs for days. It is especially significant for married women, when they get a special invitation to visit their maternal home and feast.
Dancing to the tunes of popular Teej folk songs are seen in the temple premises and around the streets.
Varieties of mouth watering food items are prepared one day before Teej and enjoyed eating during the night before taking 24 hour fasting.
Following a long feast also known as Dar, the women, sit for a 24 hour long fasting, where most do not eat or even drink water. What is fascinating is to watch women of all age group, young and old, dance for hours in the heat, rain, without a drop of water or food for an entire day.
The significance of this festival for married women is to worship and pray Lord Shiva for his special blessings for their husbands’ good health and longevity and for unmarried women is to have a good husband.
Thousands of women draped in red and green attires throng to the premises of Pashupatinath temple, where they enjoy singing, dancing and offering puja to Lord Shiva. Due to COVID-19 pandemic around, Teej celebration this year also will be confined to homes and celebrate it with relatives.
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