NEPAL IS THE KINGDOM OF FESTIVALS

Nepal is a multicultural, caste, ethnicity, religion, language diversities in place, region natural resources, monsoon festival etc. Nepal is the smallest country surrounded by 0.03% of land of world. The topest land and fifty-nine meters from sea land in Nepal.


So many amazing things can be finding here. The temperature 00 to 480 celcious , plants, like half animal and half tree (YARSHA GUMBA) people civilized to route, festival, Loshar (Sherpa) to Chhath (Terai peopl) etc. Chhath is in edge of specially Terai people home. It's the biggest festival of Terai region people. The chhath pooja, dedicated to Chhatti Mai (Goddess of Power) is a festival held in high esteem, particularly, by the people of Nepal’s Eastern Terai region. The worshipping of the rising Sun in Knee-deep water of river and lake. Chat festival is festival of respect and devotion. On this festival, the devotee worship to Sun. So it is called worship of Sun.
According to religion, that people who celebrate Chhath, he / she get what they wish, harmony relation to their family, prosperity and happiness. Basically a women, worship to sun, for long life of her husband.

Scientifically, there are reasons for celebrating Chhath. On the day of Chhath, sun in the god to worship. Sun is source of energy. So every creation of world is due to sun rays. We are here because of sun rays. The sun made us so many things by which are living. In some cases, the sun rays protect from skin disease too. SO sun is the biggest thing to living things around the earth.

Now, Chhath festival not only celebrates in Terai region but also in hill region especially in Kingod. People are integrated by Chhath festival with to make good relation with different religion, caste ethnicity.

At last, it is characteristic of small country with different festivals. Because of this festival, people integrated with diversities.

Great King Prithvi Narayan Shah

(King Prithvi Narayan Shah)

            Prithvi Narayan Shah, the builder of modern Nepal, is one of the greatest kings Nepal has produced. He was the ruler of Gorkha, a small state in Western Nepal. When he ascended the throne of Gorkha, Nepal was divided into a number of petty states. Within a span of thirty years. Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered the various states and unified Nepal.

            After death of his father, Nar Bhupal Shah, in 1800 V.S.. Prithvi Narayan Shah became the King of Gorkha at the age of twenty-one. He determined to conquer the tiny states of Nepal and make it a big and powerful state. With this aim, he attacked the neighboring states. He failed many times but did not lose heart. At last, he was successful in conquering Nuwakot, Makwanpur, Lamjung and some other states. Then, he attacked Kritiupur. He faced stiff opposition there and could conquer it only on the third attempt.

            Next, he attacked Kathmandu which was ruled by Jaya Prakash Malla. First, he had to fight the British troops which had come to help Jaya Prakash. Jaya Prakash foiled all his attempts to conquer Kathmandu. At last, Prithvi Narayan Shah thought of a plan. He ordered his troops to attack Kathmandu on the day of Indra Jatra festival. His troops marched into Kathmandu from four sides. The troops of Jaya Prakash were taken by surprise and offered no resistance. Jaya Prakash left Kathmandu and took shelter under Tej Narasingh, the King of Patan. Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered Patan and Bhaktapur too.

            Prithvi Narayan Shah made Kathmandu the capital of his kingdom and introduced many reforms. His reforms were based on those of Ram Shah, Jayasthiti Malla and Mahindra Malla. He liked the policies of these Kings. Prithvi Narayan Shah’s policies can be known from his book, Dibya Upadesh. He was a staunch nationalist. He expelled the Christian missionaries from his Kingdom. He thought they were spies of foreign countries. He encouraged the use of handmade cloth. He saw that everybody got justice. He punished the corrupt officials.

            Prithvi Narayan Shah wanted to keep his subjects happy. He thought the people were the wealth of a king. He wished that none of his subjects should remain hungry. He used to eat his meal only when he knew that all his subjects had eaten their meal. He ordered the people to eat their morning meal before 9 a.m. He watched the roofs of all houses in Kathmandu to see if smoke came out of all house. For this purpose, he had a nine-story palace built at Basantapur.

            Prithvi Narayan Shah ruled his kingdom wisely for thirty years and passed away at the age of fifty-two, He is called the great King for he established a big state ruled it well.