THE LHOSAR

Lhosar is the greatest festival of sherpa and Tamang community. It falls on the month of push. In their language, Lho means year and sar means new. So Lhosar meand New Year. This festival is celebrated according to the Manjushree tradition. Wile celebrating this festival everybody wishes for their gradual progress, prosperity and good health to each other. They wear new clothes, eat different types of delicious foods. In the day of Lhosar, people have joking, laughing, dancing and singing. They exchange Tashi Deleg which means best wishes. They have a kind of food of nine mixtures called guthugpa. Except nine mixtures, salt, chikki , ghee, coal, cotton etc. are added into a lunp pf flour in the guthugpa. The guthugpa is very important to show their fortune or misfortune throughout the year. They believe that the person, wno chooses the guthugpa having ghee, is regarded as a  lucky.