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Horse and Cattle show

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National horse and cattle show - one of the biggest cultural event in Pakistan-is held at fortress stadium Lahore in the third week of February for five days. Activities in the event includes cattle races, cattle dances(horse dance, camel dance), folk music, folk dances(Punjabi bhangra), folk music, folk games(kabady),polo matches and livestock competitions featuring the best horses, mules, cattle, buffaloes, camels, sheep, goat and chickens. Milk competitions held among cows, buffaloes, goats.  The winners receive cash prizes, gold medals, and certificates. Several committees are responsible to make the arrangements for organizing these various events at the show. These festivals not only encourage the agricultural community through exhibitions of its products and cattle but also help the rich cultural and agricultural heritage of the province and the country These kinds of exhibitions are really useful and entertaining for any kind of culture. First of all it...

Basant

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Basant  also known as spring festival or (Jashne e Baharan)is the most  popular and amazing festival which is celebrate in Punjab every year in  February, especially in traditional areas like Lahore and Kasur.  Mostly this festival is common in youngster. They have great craze to celebrate this festival. Youngsters celebrate this festival with great passion and enthusiasm. In this festival kite flying competition is held. People flying kites all day and night on the roof of their houses.kites consists of different beautiful colors, when sky is full  with such kites its seems very beautiful view on sky. Women on this day wearing a bright yellow dress. It is commonly observe that rest houses, hotels and house of relatives of the participants are fully pack with guests from all over the country. Moreover some five star hotels also arrange this function on their roof top for foreigners and other high class gentry.They also arrange variety of dishes wit...

Celebration ways at different places

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The ways of celebration of Halloween in many  countries are different. People  according to their culture celebrate Halloween in different unique ways. People of China celebrate a festival similar to Halloween known as Teng Chieh (the festival of hungry ghosts ) where food and water are placed in front of photographs of family members who have died.Shanghai is famous for Halloween parties where different foreigners  celebrate and enjoy Halloween specially from America and Canada.In Japan a festival known as "Masturi"which is similar to Halloween in that it is dedicated to the spirits of dead and take place during July and August.In Italy one of the favorite preparation of Halloween  is "Fav Dei  Morti"   a cookies recipe offered as a offering  to gods of nether world. The name of special day in Italy is called Soul day.In Chile Halloween celebrations are becoming popular. In major cities of Chile shopping malls, super markets ,bakeries sell beaut...

Interesting Facts About Halloween

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Halloween is also known as third biggest party day  after new years and chrismis. Samhainophobia is called the fear of Halloween. 50 percent of kids prefer to receive chocolate candy for Halloween compared with 24 percent who prefer non chocolate candy and 10 percent who preferred gums.Owl is a perfect symbol of Halloween. in many countries owls were said to be witches , and to hear an owl's call meant someone was about to die. The largest pumpkin was measured was grown by norm craven who broke the world record in 1993. On Halloween the poor  would go door to door offering prayer for dead in exchange of soul cake.Dark is the symbol of death.If you see a spider on the night of halloween it could be the spirit of dead. Orange and black are consider as the colors of halloween because orange is linked with harvest fall and black symbolize dark and death.Halloween candy sales about average about two billions in north America and many European countries .

How different provinces promote our cultures in Lok mela

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Punjab:                 Punjabians has promote their culture in the Lok mela with wood crafts,traditional crafts including wood carving,stone carving,bone work,multani blue tiles,block printing,painting,khader weaving,darree weaving, lacquer art,and the most popular folk dance that is very popular in all over the world. Baluchistan:                          Baluchistan  promotes their culture with leather embroidery, crafts using date leaves and the famous dish "Sajji". Sindh:              People of Sindh  promote their culture with Sindhi dresses,that are very popular in all over the world.They also promote our painting,woodwork and clay models. KpK;            People of KPK promote their culture with metal crafts stone carving and the most popular food that is "Chapli Kabab". Kashmir: ...

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