Diwali is a Hindu celebration that runs for 5 days and is the celebration of light. It is a wonderful festival and a lot of people love celebrating it. Most people believe that Diwali honors Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. For most Hindus Diwali marks a new year. Everyone dresses up in bright colored clothes. Everyone lightens up their houses by putting up candles,lanterns and electric lights up around their houses. Diwali is the biggest celebration in India.
When you buy new clothes for Diwali you must have a bath and cleanse your skin, washing away all the evil from your past. The clothing you wear to the festival must be bright colored. During this celebration women would be in the kitchen cooking up a huge meal for their loved ones. They also light up fireworks and give gifts to their neighbors and friends. Hindus also clean their houses because they believe that the Gods are coming to visit them. They also draw rangoli patterns outside of their door because it shows that people are welcome. Traditionally they use broken rice or powder to do the rangoli patterns.
Today in the reading session Room 8 drew their own rangoli patterns. We used chalk instead of broken rice and powder because we didn’t have that. In the images at the top there is some of the rangoli patterns that we drew with the chalk. While Natalia and I were drawing our rangoli pattern it was quite hard because we ran out of space, but we managed to finish our pattern. Drawing the rangoli patterns was really fun!.
This afternoon I learnt that Diwali is the festival of light and is the biggest celebration in India. I also learnt that Diwali in English means “rows of light” and also how to make rangoli patterns.
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