The Essence of Ugadi 🌲🌲🌲🌴🌴🌴🌱🌱🌼🌼🌺🌻

Ugadi is the most important festival which is celebrated by the Hindu's in locations like Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and many other places. It is also called as yugadi in Telugu speaking states and called to be as gudi padawa in Maharashtra.
Ugadi is said to be the beginning of the year. The word Ugadi was derived from Sanskrit, where uga means ‘age' and gadi means beginning which completely means beginning of a year.
The festival starts with drawing colorful rangoli on floors and putting mango leaves to the casings which is said be the tradition of Indian culture. People then will have traditional oil bath and then wear new clothes.  Delicious food items like yellow rice(pulihora), puran poli(bobatlu), curd vada(perugu garelu) and Ugadi pachadi are made and will be consumed.
The ugadi pachadi is the main food item for the festival. It has six ingredients like salt, sugar, bitter, sour, tangy and spices. This dish symbolically means various emotions of human life in the following year. Life is not always sweet and smooth, it will also have bitter, sour and spices in it which will reflect the human behavior
Salt – which determines the fear
Sweet- which determines the happiness
Bitter- which determines the sadness
Sour- which determines the disgust
Tangy- which determines the surprise and astonishment
Spices – which determines the anger.
All these emotions put together is said to be Ugadi pachadi which is happily consumed by several people.The most important part of the ugadi festival is "panchanga sravanam" which means telling about the horoscopes and future of the people in the new year. This is very interesting part of the festival.

The Indian culture is very prominent and unique. People here celebrate festivals to come together with zeal, social merriment and to share their happiness. Though the world is being changed, the customs and the rituals are still being the same which makes the indian culture to be unique ever after.

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