Baisakhi Festival 2024 । Vaisakhi Celebrations

Baisakhi festival is one of the most important festivals celebrated in the Vaishakh month. This festival will be celebrated on 14th April 2024. Baisakhi represents the change in nature or season. Baisakhi is celebrated when the Sun enters the Aries sign. This festival is mostly celebrated by farmers. In northern India, especially Punjab, wheat crops are ready for harvesting during this time. Farmers celebrate this festival as a thanksgiving to God for providing with the harvest.

Why is Baisakhi celebrated

Baisakhi is a traditional folk festival. Farmers celebrate this festival as a thanksgiving to God on the occasion of harvest of their crops. Other crops like sesame, sugarcane, pulses are also harvested during this period.

In Punjab, wheat crops can be seen all around during this period. This scenario is very beautiful as the crops can be seen swinging with the winds. Farmers are quite happy and filled with excitement on seeing this. They offer a few crops to the Lord of fire and also cook some Prasad from them. People of Punjab dance and sing according to their tradition and rituals during this period. This includes Gidda and Bhangra. Since the day of sowing the seeds, farmers work very hard for this day, the day of harvest. Farmers celebrate Baisakhi festival to express their happiness caused by the harvest.

Baisakhi festival depicts Punjab’s tradition and culture

Baisakhi is mostly celebrated in Punjab, Haryana and other nearby places. This festival is very important for the people belonging to these states. This day is celebrated due to the harvesting of the crops. It is also the same day when Sikhs’ tenth guru, Guru Govind Singh ji laid the foundation for Khalsa Panth. Besides this, Baisakhi also marks the beginning of summers and the end of winters. Hence, Baisakhi festival can be closely related to Punjab’s tradition and culture.

Baisakhi festival marks the beginning of the New Year

13th or 14th April is the first day of the New year for Hindus, when Sun enters Aries sign. The New year begins from this day. This day celebrated as a festival all over India. People cook sweets on this day and wish each other.

Goddess Durga and Lord Shiva are worshipped on this day. Most of the businessmen start new financial accounts on this day. This festival is celebrated in all the educational institutions with zeal and excitement. Students perform in various programmes and are given awards on the day of Baisakhi.