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Teej is an important festival of Nepali Hindu’s women. Although there are many interpretations and beliefs about it in the Hindu scriptures, it has a distinct importance socially and culturally. Especially if you compare its originality and tradition in today’s time, many things are being edited, although if you study its past and history, you will find its own originality.
Even if we are to remember Teej only a few years ago, those days of Teej were very happy and fruitful, but nowadays those things are slowly disappearing. It is customary for girls who have left their birth homes and relatives to get married, come to their wives on the day before Teej and sit with their parents, brothers and sisters and share their sorrows and joys with each other.
On the day of Teej, it is customary to meet the sisters in the parents house throughout the day and express their sorrows and joys through songs. In this way, looking at its past, the songs and environment that reflect the tradition and original culture are slowly disappearing.
Today, especially with the development of science and technology, the increasing use of social networks and the development of the globalized world, the Nepali originality is disappearing and the western culture is intruding. In this context, an analytical article has been prepared.
yesterday’s teej…..
It has its own importance especially in Hinduism. If we study its past, it is a festival with its own originality and tradition. In the days of yesteryear, there were original ways of celebrating Tij. Especially since the beginning of Shravan or on the day of Sankranti in the evening, according to the tradition of throwing the Luto, after throwing the Luto, the sisters and brothers around the village would gather and sing the opening song of Teej.
Not only that, when planting millet in the house or doing other work, whether it was a fair or when there was a gathering, it was a very original custom of humming the song of teej. At that time, when she was getting closer, her married sister’s heart was full of joy and excitement. Especially for women who are tired after working all year long, even if it is only 2-4 days during Teej, parents house became a place where they could relieve their fatigue and express their sorrows.
When Teej was getting close or 1-2 days before her brother would walk for an hour to pick up his sisters from his house and return with the sister’s bag. When the daughter came to their homes after crossing several roads, father, mother and relatives were happy. Especially on the night before Tij, the girls gather in parents house and eat rice with ghee mixed with snake gourd, pumpkin and luffa gaurd vegetables according to the season.It had its own taste.
On the day of Teej, the songs of sadness, happiness and sorrow, which are sung by girls around them after fasting all day long, had their own significance and beauty. On the day of Rishi Panchami, which comes 2 days after Teej, the puja, which is fasted throughout the day, had its own originality. Thus, the pain of having to leave the house with tears and go home after completing the entire program of Teej was not heavy at all.
Today’s Teej…..
Especially with the change of time and the development of technology, it is natural for there to be a change in human consciousness, but due to all these changes, forgetting our traditional values and traditions is definitely not a good thing. Today, with modernization and development, it is a sad thing that all our traditions and cultures are disappearing.
Eating the same dar that was eaten the night before Teej yesterday, but eating this all month today’s, instead of the original songs of yesterday’s sisters’ pain, entering distorted songs that are indigestible to the society, dancing with modern sound sistem instead of the Madal and flute that were played yesterday, the song that was hummed yesterday is curtailed only for a certain time today and so on. Things are certainly not good and pleasant.
Especially with the use of technology and the development of the globalized world, our customs and traditions will disappear and because of the introduction of outside cultures, our old original traditions will not be limited to the pages of books or social networks in the course of time?.
Teej towards the village …..
Even today, compared to the city, the trend toward the village is somewhat original. Although not especially compared to before, even if it is to some extent, the tej towards the village house has its own speciality. Whether it is a song sung by playing Madal in the village or a song hummed at the time of planting millet in the fair, it still remains. Except in some places, the village is not as extravagant and expensive as in the city. Their own kind of living and harmony is left.
The practice of taking Dar is also somewhat old-fashioned. It can be seen that the originality and tradition of this song, which is sung by the sisters and daughters of the village and the girls who have come from home, has been lost even though the tradition of the song being sung by everyone in the village is disappearing.
town’s Teej…
Especially with the development of increasing urbanization, it is natural to have an impact on our originality and tradition in the context that our intimacy and mutual brotherly relations are going disappearing. Today’s world is a capitalist world, so it is natural that it has an impact on the city as compared to the village. Today, when people are engrossed in hoarding money and wealth, it is natural that our own originality and tradition should be overshadowed, but this is not a happy result.
Today’s in the name of making money, replacing the original songs of yesterday with loose and indigestible songs and videos in the market is definitely a blow to our culture and original culture. The songs sung and danced in the villages with the exception of the dances have been transformed into modern sound system in the city, and the heavy basic fare that was eaten in the village on the night before Teej, today in the city is transformed into meals and food for months in expensive hotels and party palace.
Finally..
Isn’t it the duty of today’s descendants to revive our original culture which is disappearing day by day and to save the tradition established by our ancestors?
