PONGAL FESTIVAL IN TAMILNADU,INDIA

PONGAL is one of the most celebrated harvest festival of South India, mainly Tamil Nadu. In Palappampatti also celebrated grantly.
Each and every house celebrates with “MURUKKU“ a kind of snacks.
In palappampatti also every one will make Murukku.

First Day:
First day in cities make "Thai pongal" in houses. In villages they make a function "Kappu Kattu". This function celebrates in cities 1 day before.

Second Day
Second day pongal is called "Mattu Pongal" and "Ulavar Thirunal". On that day evening they goto their gardens with relations and make pongal for all gods.
Serve the pongal and other curries to cows and bullocks and share with relations also. Then they return home midnight aprox.

Third Day:
On third day of Pongal is called “POO PONGAL” . On that day, the girls gets up early in the morning and will go for collecting “AVARAM POO” . At that time we used to take Murukku, Coconut, Sugarcane etc. After plucking Avarampoo they sit in one place and take snacks by sharing with each other. Then all are return back home.Evening they fill the bamboo baskets with full of Avaram Poo and gather in one common place. Ladies and girls gives a function “kummi” that is keeping the baskets in the center and make a round with walking and claps their hands. After that they drop the flowers in well.
In some places they celebrates the function "Jallikkattu".

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