Vijayawada: It was a memorable and joyful three-day break for lakhs of Telugu households dwelling in Andhra Pradesh as they celebrated Makara Sankranti pageant from January 14 to 16.

The primary day was noticed as Bhogi adopted by the principle pageant Sankranti and the final day as Kanuma by worshipping the cattle, which performs very very important function in agriculture and rural financial system.

Telugus dwelling in faraway locations and different states and districts re-joined with their households at their native locations and enthusiastically celebrated the pageant.

With rising urbanization and reduce of rural tradition, the pageant is progressively altering from the pageant of harvest to the pageant of reunion of members of the family. With enhance of transport services like automobiles, buses, trains, lakhs of households got here to Andhra Pradesh from Telangana, Mumbai and different locations for Sankranti this 12 months.

The aged folks rejoiced the pageant season by welcoming their youngsters and grandchildren. Districts like West Godavari, East Godavari, Krishna and some different districts witnessed cockfights and Gundala (card recreation). Ladies have been busy getting ready number of recipes and meals objects. Although in comparison with the previous, the variety of objects ready at residence this 12 months was on decline. This has helped residence meals centres, candy retailers to have brisk enterprise.

Many individuals spent the three days visiting their agriculture lands, mango orchards, horticulture crops and different locations within the villages and recollected their childhood reminiscences.

Ladies and women loved the Rangoli drawings and kids had good time as they hardly ever get to see the agricultural environment and open lands to play.

Even Haridasus are slowly vanishing. The variety of Gangireddulu (Adorned bulls) has additionally diminished. They have been meant to show the significance of donating rice and garments as that is the season when farmers get good crop and earnings.

However the significance of Sankranti and the explanations of assorted actions and their significance just isn’t being taught and all the things has turn out to be a ritual and present extra for social media like YouTube and Instagram.

The custom in Andhra is that the newly-wed {couples} go to the woman’s home for Sankranti. In Eluru, one household served 360 sorts of meals objects to the son-in-law. The menu included over 21 sorts of ice cream, completely different sorts of rice and so forth. In Bhimavaram, one other household served 170 varieties, and all this was uploaded on YouTube and was picked up by information channels.