Holi is one of the two biggest festivals celebrated in north India, after Diwali. This significant Hindu festival is celebrated with colours in any form. Amongst the most common forms, the gulal powder comes at the top. For the year 2024, the festival of Holi will be celebrated on 25 March 2024. However, this date changes every year. It is also sometimes referred to as the festival of love. With the evening of Purnima or the full moon day of the Falgun month, the festival of Holi starts and lasts a day and night. Read this blog to know the top 10 lines about the Holi Festival in English for children and students.
10 Lines About the Holi Festival for Classes 1,2,3,4, and 5
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- Holi is a nationwide festival of colours and love celebrated in India, majorly by Hindus of the nation.
- In March, Holi is celebrated and is a two-day-long festival.
- All the states of India have their different ways of celebrating the festival of colours.
- There is a ‘Choti Holi,’ and a ‘Badi Holi.’ The Choti Holi is the celebration of Holika Dahan one day before the Badi Holi.
- Holika Dahan is a huge bonfire, around which people sit and perform rituals before continuing to dance.
- Holi makes everyone happy. People use any colors in liquid and powder form to spread colors which is a symbol of love.
- As per different Hindu texts, the celebration in the form of spreading colours was started by Radha Krishna.
- In North India, women make gujjiyas the traditional sweet on the day of Holi.
- Children love Holi as this is when they can play with balloons and water-filled guns.
- The best part of Holi is dancing on dhol, singing, and eating sweets throughout the day.
10 Lines About the Holi Festival for Classes 6,7, and 8
- Holi is the festival of colours that comes in the Hindi month of Falgun or English calendar March.
- The month of Falgun indicates the shift of seasons from winter to summer. It is the time when the flowers shed which is why sometimes it is also used to play Holi.
- Right before the day big day of Holi, a ritual takes place which is known as Holika Dahan.
- Holika Dahan indicates the spirit of good over evil. hence making the day of Holi a day of love and victory of happiness over sorrow.
- Holi is celebrated with colours and a pinch of pakka rang in water, or by making water balloons in India.
- On the occasion of Holi people visit their family or attend the Holi festivals in their society.
- The famous way of Holi celebration is by dancing to traditional songs of Holi and drinking a beverage called ‘Bhang’ the traditional drink of the festival of colours.
- Not many people know that Holi is a five-day celebration in total and the final day celebration is called the “Rang Panchami.”
- People participate in the Holi formalities by engaging in the singing of ancestral Holi songs passed down by generations.
- The other traditional foods of Holi are Gujiya, chips, and Halwa, along with any other meal depending on the region of India.
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10 Lines About the Holi Festival for Classes Above 10
- After Diwali, Holi is the most famous festival in India. It is associated with religious relevance in the Hindu religion.
- The whole nation celebrates the festival of color and love in the month of March with the arrival of spring and the goodbye of winter.
- Holi is also known as the “festival of colors” because of the time of the year it falls in. Moreover, in some places, people also call it the “festival of love.”
- One of the legends about the celebration of his beautiful festival of colors is the legend of Holika, sister of Hiranyakashyap who was trying to kill his son Prahlad by asking her fireproof sister to sit in the fire with him. The victory of Prahlad, a devotee of Lord Vishnu signifies good over evil.
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- The ‘Holika Dahan,’ a bonfire celebration is done just one day before the actual celebration of the Holi. this day is famously known as ‘Choti Holi.’
- Children in different parts of the nation throw water-filled balloons, use water guns to spray colors, and put pakka colors/ permanent colors on people to express their happiness on Holi.
- It brings people together and is close to spreading brotherhood, unity, and harmony.
- The main cities for the celebration of Holi are Vrindavan and Mathura. People two to three weeks before come here to play the Braj Holi. these people are not just Indians but foreigners as well.
- One of the famous ways to play Holi in Vrindavan is ‘Lathmaar’ or ‘Beat by a wood stick.’ women through this practice beat men with wood and they have to protect themselves.
- Holi is a festival that makes people forget about any grudge or sadness in life and just be at the moment and enjoy this.
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