Yomari punhi

Yomari Punhi

Yomari confection
Official name Yomari Punhi, English translation: Full Moon of Tasty Bread
Observed by Newar people
Type Newari
Celebrations Worshiping Annapurna, eating Yomari
Begins Marga Sukla Purnima
Ends 4 days later
2015 date 25 December

Yomari Punhi is a Newari festival marking the end of the rice harvest. It takes place in December during the full moon day of Thinlā (थिंला), the second month in the lunar Nepal Era calendar.[1][2]

Festival

Yomari Punhi, meaning the full moon of yomari, is one of the most popular Newar festivals and is observed every year during the full moon of December. A yomari is a confection of rice flour (from the new harvest) dough shaped like fish and filled with brown cane sugar and sesame seeds, which is then steamed. This delicacy is the chief item on the menu during the post-harvest celebration of Yomari Punhi.

On this full moon day, people of the Kathmandu Valley offer worship to Annapurna, the goddess of grains, for the rice harvest. Groups of kids go around neighborhood to beg yomari cakes from housewives in the evening. Sacred masked dances are performed in the villages of Hari Siddhi and Thecho at the southern end of the Valley to mark the festival.[3][4]In a yomari people keep Chakhu a chocolate like food or khuwa a ricotta cheese like liquid.

References

  1. Tom Woodhatch (1999). Nepal handbook. Footprint Travel Guides. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-900949-44-6.
  2. "Celebrations of Yomari Punhi festival in Nepal". Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  3. Nepal Travel Guide
  4. We All Nepali
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