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How to celebrate the festival of Tokah in India

Tokachi is an Indian religious festival. Held every September and October for 10 days.

According to Indian tradition, there are 15 ancestor worship days in September, and the tenth day after that is the Tokachi Festival. This festival is a festival to celebrate Rama’s victory over the ten demon king Ravana.

The annual “Tokyo Festival” is one of the three major Hindu festivals. It lasts for 10 days before and after the festival, during which people gather to celebrate Rama’s victory over the “Ten Demon King” Ravana. During the “Tokachi Festival”, the first 9 days are full of festivals celebrating Rama’s deeds.

On the street, you can often see a band leading the way, a performing arts team surrounded by good men and women, and occasionally you can encounter ox carts and elephant carts full of actors and dressed in red and green. Regardless of whether the walking performing arts team or the costumed ox cart and elephant cart, they all performed while marching, until they defeated the “Ten Demon Kings” Ravana on the last day.

Tokachi is a Hindu festival and a major national festival. According to the Indian calendar, the Tokachi festival is celebrated for 10 consecutive days starting from the first day of the month of Shishifu Kuga. Usually in September and October of the Gregorian calendar. Tokachi is derived from the epic “Ramayana” and has a tradition of thousands of years. The festival celebrates the 10th day of the battle between Rama, the hero of Hinduism, and Ravana, the ten demon kings, and finally won a great victory, so it is called “Tokachi Festival”.

During Tokachi, all parts of India are immersed in the festive festivities. Whether it is located in a remote country or a bustling city, there is a lot of excitement and excitement everywhere. In northern and central India, the celebrations are even more grand and grand. In the first 9 days of the “Tokatsu Festival”, various places set up stage performances, starting from the birth of Rama, until Rama’s final victory over Ravana.

The first program is to stage “Ramayana”. Although the actors who play the characters in the play are not as neatly dressed as they are on the stage, they are all dressed in red and green, some riding horses, some riding ox carts, and playing in the band Parade around the field with the accompaniment. Then, they acted out the story of Rama’s final victory over Ravana.

At the same time, the famous storyteller sat on the high stage and told the story in his deep voice through the loudspeaker. Also on the high platform, there were Indian women wearing sari, veils, and the stacked oil lamps burning on their heads, dancing traditional dances. At sunset, the most exciting moment arrives. The actor who played Rama became the center of the audience’s attention. I saw him dressed in heroic and dashing movements, bending a bow and arrow, aiming at the troll, and the arrow was a small fireball.

It was too late to say, but it was fast, and the three rockets flew “whoosh, whoosh, whoosh” toward the three trolls. In the midst of people’s eyes and breath, “Boom, Boom, Boom”, the three demons were all hit by arrows, and the audience cheered. Immediately, the firecrackers blared, the fireworks soared into the sky, the fire trees and silver flowers were full of brilliance. The three gigantic demons collapsed in the raging flames, tragically and turned to ashes.

Rama was victorious, and good finally triumphed over evil. At this time, the audience around the square cheered for Rama’s victory.

This activity is called “Ramolila”. “Ramolila” is usually held in the open air. September and October are the most comfortable seasons of the year in India. On a clear night, a bright moon hangs on the starry sky, and a pleasant cool breeze blows gently. Watching the melodious Indian national music. A vivid “Ramolila” is indeed a rare enjoyment.

It’s just that this kind of performance lasts three hours or even longer, and the dance rhythm is extraordinarily slow. If you are not proficient in Indian dance language, it is difficult to understand the mystery. However, Indian audiences, whether adults or children, although they are already familiar with the plot of “Ramolila”, there are still a continuous stream of people who go to watch it every year.

On the night of the 10th day, the festivities reached their climax, known as the “Tokachi Tenth Day”. In many places, a large open space will be selected to stage the finale of the Tokachi Festival. Three giant paper gods will be erected in the open space, representing the ten evil-headed demon king Ravana and his younger brother and son who are sympathetic to him.

Paper figurines vary in size, and some are even dozens of meters high. They are dressed in colorful, fierce looks, and their bodies are stuffed with gunpowder and firecrackers. The three demons held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, bared their teeth and grinned, with a hideous image. Amid the moving singing and music, people would rush towards the open space in groups of three or five, and it would not be long before the crowd was full.

In Delhi, the Tokachi festival in the square in front of the Red Fort was crowded with hundreds of thousands of people. Among the crowds standing shoulder to shoulder, vendors selling balloons, ice cream and all kinds of snacks and toys can be seen everywhere.