Maghe Sankranti also famous for Bull Fighting

Maghe Sankranti also famous for Bull Fighting

Maghe Sankranti is one of the most important Hindu festivals that falls on the first day of Magh (about 14 January). Magh is the 10th Month of Vikram Sambat (B.S) calendar and this festival is celebrated as end to the winter solstice containing month of Poush (9th month of Vikram Sambat).
As Maghe Sankranti is the festival of Sun God and he is regarded as the symbol of divinity and wisdom. There is the enternal meaning of this festive. People welcome warmer and relatively longer days in comparison to the freezing month of Poush. The people of Nepal and India celebrate this festival. From this day onwards, it is believed that the sun starts moving towards the Northern Hemisphere (Makar Rasi). Simply, Makar Sakranti (because the sun starts moving towards Makar rashi) is something similar to the solstic festivals in other culture and religions.
Similarly, Hindus take a holy bath in several rivers and lake igmati and Patan, Triveni (basin of Gandaki/Narayani River), Devghat (Chitwan), Kaligandaki, Koshi River, Sun Koshi (Dolalghat) and Gosaikunda Lake (Rasuwa). Likewise, family member gather together and they take ghee, sweet potatoes, laddoo, chaku and many more sweets as festival food. Especially the mother wishes for the good health and prosperity of the family. People also worship god and they put a special kind of tika, known as TILAK in this special day.
Maghe Shankrati is the major festival of Tarai community and also these people celebrate this day as a New Year. In the meanwhile they too perform this day as a harvest festival. In some part of Nepal, especially in Nuwakot, there is bull fighting. This is only a bull fighting event in Nepal, so huge numbers of people go Nuwakot. Bull fighting tour to Nuwakot presents how bull fighting goes on in Nepal and the visitors would love watching it.