Hey friends here we go today a blog on Indian festival popularly know as "MAKAR SANKRANTI" means festival of kites. Every year of 14th JANUARY we Indians are flying kite on this special day and it is also an national holiday for our country. But this year it is also celebrating on 15th of JANUARY which is also known as "WASSI UTTAYARAN" and all those who are doing job are also given holiday but all the markets are open.
WHY WE CELEBRATE MAKAR SANKRANTI
This festival holds a great religious significance in Hindu religion. On this special occasion people offer prayers to Lord Surya. On this auspicious day, Lord Surya moves from from Sagittarius to Capricorn zodiac sign. This year Makar Sankranti is being celebrated for this reason.
Many of the children of our country fly kites before festival. Mostly GUJARATI's people are very excited for this festival. Everyone are just going in market to buy the kites. And kites are sell by the pair of 5. It is depend on which type of kite you are buying. There are number of varieties of kite like small kite, big kite, design or simple kite, A kite which has a tail , it is all depend what you buy.
Many people go in the early morning at the roof top of the building or there house to fly the kite and get down after the sunset. As gujarati's people are having extreme level of shock to fly the kites. In our Indian culture there also many professional to fly the kite. There are many matches and winning prize too. A name place KUTCH where all the tournaments are kept and number of people participate in it. And it is a place where you can also see the varieties of kite.
So this is all about the festival of INDIAN CULTURE popularly known as MAKAR SANKRANTI.
HOW TO MAKE A KITE
As in market of kites the thread is not tie on it we have to make it, I will show you what are methods to make a kite.
METHOD 1
Simply just take a kite and you have to take one match stick firstly, you have to do a small hole in kite. One hole should be done where the upper stick of kite is there. You have to put a small hole in opposite direction, one hole up and one hole down. This is the upper side where you have made a hole now we have to put down side. As a silver color sticker is there just above that sticker you have to put the sticker and they both should be in equal length. This is step one to make a kite.
METHOD 2
Now you have make the hole with proper proportion in the kite. Now you have to take a thread of small length. And you have to put that thread in that hole. As in the upper hole you have put the thread in the cross direction and in the lower hole you have to put the thread in same direction and take the thread to your side. This is how you have to do in step-2. It is very simple you just need a simple practice and you will get to know how to tie the thread. Here we complete the step -2 to make a kite fly.
METHOD 3
As you have tie the thread now you have to measure that the thread is in equal length from the top hole to bottom and bottom to top hole. If the length is not equal than kite will not be able to fly. So keep it in the equal proportion of length. And as it is equal now the extra thread which is left you have to tie a the thread in a way in which you can put the thread of "MANJA" in that. And as you put the thread of manja you have to tie the thread like a shoe lace in simple language.
(MANJA means a big bunch of thread or a big role of thread to fly a kite in the long position is know as manja.)
Here is the proper photo of kite after all the method.
Here you just make all the steps to make a kite fly in the air. I hope you understand all the steps properly. This all steps are done one night before by the Indian peoples to save time for the next day.
So this is how we make our festival so called "UTTAYARAN" . And also why people are excited to fly the kite.
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