Pusnâ (original) (raw)
Pusnâ is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Hajong people on or around January 14. In 2016, the festival falls on January 15. Pusnâ is a solar event making one of the few traditional Hajong festivals which fall on the same date in the Gregorian calendar every year, that is January 14, with some exceptions when the festival is celebrated on January 13 or 15. It is the celebration of Sankranthi, with feasts lasting for a week. Traditionally, Pusnâ is also a time for the family to get together. One activity that occurs during these get-togethers is the making and eating of Pi-thâ. Pi-thâs are made of glutinous rice flour.
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| dbo:abstract | Pusnâ is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Hajong people on or around January 14. In 2016, the festival falls on January 15. Pusnâ is a solar event making one of the few traditional Hajong festivals which fall on the same date in the Gregorian calendar every year, that is January 14, with some exceptions when the festival is celebrated on January 13 or 15. It is the celebration of Sankranthi, with feasts lasting for a week. Traditionally, Pusnâ is also a time for the family to get together. One activity that occurs during these get-togethers is the making and eating of Pi-thâ. Pi-thâs are made of glutinous rice flour. (en) |
| dbo:country | dbr:Hajong_people |
| dbo:meaning | Marks the arrival of spring |
| dbo:similar | dbr:Makar_Sankranti dbr:Poi_Sangken |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Hajong_Spring_festiva...akes_called_Pi'thâ_(피트).jpg?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 49030995 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 2925 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1056581513 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Sankranthi dbc:Culture_of_Meghalaya dbc:Hajong_culture dbr:Makar_Sankranti dbr:Hajong_ethnic_religion dbr:Rice_wine dbc:Harvest_festivals_in_India dbr:Ancestor_worship dbc:Spring_festivals dbr:Gregorian_calendar dbr:Hajong_people dbc:Religious_festivals_in_India dbc:Folk_festivals_in_India dbr:Rice_cake dbr:Palmyra_palm dbr:Poi_Sangken |
| dbp:begins | A day before the Sun begins its movement away from the Tropic of Capricorn (en) |
| dbp:caption | Rice cakes eaten during Pusnâ. The round ones are called Tel Pi-thâ and the rice cake shaped like the half-moon are stuffed with sesame seeds and jaggery and are called Chore Pi-thâ, literally meaning rooster rice cake. (en) |
| dbp:celebrations | Making and eating of glutinous rice cakes and rice wine (en) |
| dbp:date | 0001-01-15 (xsd:gMonthDay) |
| dbp:duration | Three days (en) |
| dbp:frequency | Annual (en) |
| dbp:holidayName | Pusnâ (en) |
| dbp:longtype | Cultural (en) |
| dbp:nickname | Spring Cake Festival (en) |
| dbp:observances | Visiting relatives and friends, ancestor worship, honouring the Sun, harvest feasts with rice cakes and rice wine (en) |
| dbp:observedby | dbr:Hajong_people |
| dbp:relatedto | Makar Sankranti and Poi Sangken of Thailand and other South-East Asian countries (en) |
| dbp:significance | Marks the arrival of spring (en) |
| dbp:type | asian (en) |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Infobox_holiday dbt:Refimprove dbt:Reflist dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:India-festival-stub |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:Culture_of_Meghalaya dbc:Hajong_culture dbc:Harvest_festivals_in_India dbc:Spring_festivals dbc:Religious_festivals_in_India dbc:Folk_festivals_in_India |
| rdf:type | dbo:TimeInterval wikidata:Q1445650 dbo:Holiday |
| rdfs:comment | Pusnâ is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Hajong people on or around January 14. In 2016, the festival falls on January 15. Pusnâ is a solar event making one of the few traditional Hajong festivals which fall on the same date in the Gregorian calendar every year, that is January 14, with some exceptions when the festival is celebrated on January 13 or 15. It is the celebration of Sankranthi, with feasts lasting for a week. Traditionally, Pusnâ is also a time for the family to get together. One activity that occurs during these get-togethers is the making and eating of Pi-thâ. Pi-thâs are made of glutinous rice flour. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Pusnâ (en) |
| owl:sameAs | wikidata:Pusnâ http://bn.dbpedia.org/resource/পুস্না https://global.dbpedia.org/id/2M57Z |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Pusnâ?oldid=1056581513&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Hajong_Spring_festival_rice_cakes_called_Pi'thâ_(피트).jpg |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Pusnâ |
| foaf:name | Pusnâ (en) |
| foaf:nick | Spring Cake Festival (en) |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:List_of_festivals_in_India dbr:Meghalaya dbr:Hajong_ethnic_religion dbr:Culture_of_India dbr:Hajong_people |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Pusnâ |
