Diwali in India

In India, every year in the solar calendar 10,1(the specific date is 15 after the moon disappears in August of the Indian lunar calendar), every household in India, from urban to rural, from government officials to ordinary people, will decorate lanterns and celebrate the Lantern Festival with joy. At this time, the hot summer has passed and the most comfortable and cool season of the year is coming. The banks of the Ganges River are full of golden worlds, and fields, villages and farmhouses are covered with golden rice and red sorghum. People regard this day as a symbol of good luck and happiness, with the joy of harvest. Businessmen are used to putting on new books on this day and opening the market for good luck, so the Lantern Festival can also be said to be the Indian New Year.

The celebration of the Lantern Festival lasted for half a month. During this period, men, women and children put on new clothes to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Parks, squares and public places are arranged like fairyland, and cultural programs are colorful and fascinating. Takatora Park in New Delhi is the most lively activity center for the Lantern Festival. Colored lights are hung high, drums are blaring, and bands in golden boat hats and glittering costumes sit cross-legged in temporary buildings, playing melodious Indian music. The park is crowded with people. There are stalls selling fireworks and toys, tents set up by fortune tellers and ghost wizards, riding elephants, playing snakes, playing bears and all kinds of games. As night falls, lights are lit under the windows in front of every household and on the trees on the roof. There are colorful lights, small candles and oil lamps with flames like beans, and the earth forms a sea of lights. On this day, people rushed home, and the whole family sat around to have a "reunion dinner", and then poured into the streets drunk, singing and dancing, shouting "Rama, Rama" while dancing ... Dance dramas describing the origin of the Lantern Festival were staged in major theaters, and their contents came from the Indian epic Ramayana in the 2nd century BC.