{"id":496,"date":"2007-01-13T22:55:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/diary\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-01-13T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T17:55:04","slug":"lohri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Lohri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;<strong>Lohri<\/strong>&#8216; (Pronounce: &#8211; Loh-rhi) is an annual festival in Punjab. It comes in the month of January. It is not a religious festival. The story says that a poor man named Hundo married off his daughter. Her in-laws demanded dowry, which Hundo could not give. As a result, his daughter was burnt. For this reason the daughters go begging for money from their brothers and elders so that the same does not happen to them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The day begins with children collecting money from houses in the neighbourhood. In the evening, winter savouries are served around a bonfire. Children go from door to door singing songs in praise of Dulha Bhatti, a Punjabi version of Robin Hood who robbed the rich and helped the poor. These &#8220;visitors&#8221; are given either money or gachak, bhuga, til, moongphali, gur and rewri. The festival assumes greater significance if there has been a happy event in the family during the elapsed year, like the birth of a male child or marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Eating of til and rorhi is considered to be essential on this day. Perhaps the words til and rorhi merged to become tilorhi, which eventually got shortened to Lohri.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amritworld\/355933405\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Lohri\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/154\/355933405_a0e64ff775.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Lohri&#8216; (Pronounce: &#8211; Loh-rhi) is an annual festival in Punjab. It comes in the month of January. It is not a religious festival. The story says that a poor man named Hundo married off his daughter. Her in-laws demanded dowry, which Hundo could not give. As a result, his daughter was burnt. For this reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}