How Nepali people celebrate their new year.

Nepali New Year 2077 B.S celebration.

The Nepali has its own calendar system known as the BikramSambat. In Nepali language New Year call Nava Varsha. In Nava Varsha observed as an official holiday. Nepali New Year or Nava Varsha is usually must fall in the second week of April. The Nepalese people celebrate this day as a great event. During this day people go for the have get-together and celebrate this day socializing in various ways. 

Bisket Jatra, Sindoor Jatra, Bode Jatra, and Various annual carnivals and rituals are conducted. And other cultural are passionately carried out to welcome the New Year in traditional style. Youths are organized parties at clubs, hotels, restaurants or home with family. And some people like to go picnic.

The solar Gregorian calendar is 56.7 years back than Bikram Sambat. currently, the Gregorian calendar is 2020 year running but Bikram Sambat is 2076 year and it becomes 2077 year in this Nava Varsha.The Bikram Sambat months are starting from Baisakh which is usually in the middle of April and ends with Chaitra which is usually in the middle of March.

2077 celebrate in Nepal.

This 2077 New Year has not good for Nepali people because of COVID or coronavirus epidemic. For control spread coronavirus government of Nepal has lockdown in the whole country. The celebration of the New year is very distributed due to this lockdown. Nepali people have not celebrated nicely this new year.

Nepalese people have celebrated this new Year inside the home and have sent wish welcome messages to their friends and relatives. They do not have a get-together with long-distance friends this new year but they have organized a small party at home. And they are trying to have celebrated this New year best.   

Some kids and youths are sent a postcard to their friend on the new year but this year they only massage them and make them alert with COVID.

were celebrating the new year with a special kind and tourists had been also participating in this day. But due to the coronavirus epidemic and worldwide lockdown tourists could not visit Nepal. This is also the main reason for disturbed celebrating the new year.

Bisket Jatra

Bisht Jatra, the weekly festival of Bhaktapur is a symbol of the Old Solar New Year and is the only festival that does not follow the Nepali calendar based on the moon. The journey begins after a special Tantric ritual at the Bhairav Temple at Tamadhi Tole in Bhaktapur.

Bhairav and Bhadrakali are then placed in large chariots and cheer are drawn from the crowd of spectators. During the festival, People replay a drama passed on over the centuries.

Stop in for a war between the chariots, east and west sides of the city, and then head down the steep road leading to the river, where a lingam (vertical pole) about 25 meters high has been erected. The next evening, the pole is pulled down, again on the tug of war and as the pole crashes, the official new year begins.

Biskit Jatra is celebrated in Thimi and Balakhu respectively with tongue piercing Jatra and sindoor Jatra respectively. The festival ends with many days of spiritual entrance, dancing, and fun.

sindoor Jatra

On the third day of the 10-day Bisket Jatra, male representatives from various quarters of Thimi and surrounding villages of Bhaktapur staged a more than 32 Palki procession with idols of various deities.

As soon as all khats are collected, sindoor or Simiree powder is thrown at them and when Khadd Ganesh arrives from Nagadish village, the ceremony reaches the peak of fever. Ganesh, who was carried by hundreds of people used to parade in the streets till late, following the other beds when he left home.

If the latter can catch Ganesh, the activities are long, but eventually, Ganesh departs and the festival moves on to the Talju Temple. Later, in the daytime, crowds came to see the tongue bobbing as a tongue-boring celebration.

 

History of Biksambat

Established  BikramSambat calendar by the Indian emperor Vikramaditya and this is recognized as the official calendar of Nepal. This calendar is a solar calendar based on ancient Hindu traditions. The history of the Bikram Sambat calendar Calendar has an intriguing story.

It's said that the name of the calendar derives its name from King Vikramaditya of Rajasthan, which was the then independent country in the Indian subcontinent. Bikram Sambat had been discontinued for a long time with official Shaka Sambat after the rise of Rana Oligarchs in Nepal. they are discontinued Shaka Sambat in 1823 rd year but later replaced it with Bikram Sambat but it used for the only functionary. And in 1958 as Nepali calendar, the Bikram Sambat came into official use.

There are various aspects of the importance of the Nepali calendar which are important as Nepalese use more than one calendar and celebrate their New Year accordingly. Nepal has a unique lunar calendar by its own name, called Nepal Sambat. Almost all festivals are celebrated according to this calendar. This calendar originated in Nepal and shows a strong resemblance to Nepali culture and traditions. In the Nepalese calendar, various months were thus named, beginning with Baishak and ending with Chait.

There are many events in the Nepalese calendar that are given special religious rituals every month, the most important of which is Mata Tirtha Puja, Buddha Jayanti and the festival of Dashen. Therefore, the Nepalese calendar provides accurate measurements of various Nepali religious festivals.