Celebration May Fung 2022 | Tebatian New Year celebration Day

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Many regional festivals are celebrated in Baltistan, but May Fung is the most important among them.

May Fung is a purely regional ritual or festival which is celebrated every year on 20th December with great enthusiasm and devotion. It is actually a celebration of the start of the Tibetan New Year. Its importance is also doubled because from December 21, the length of the day starts to increase and the night begins to get shorter, which is no less than Eid for the people who are struggling with this freezing weather, so everyone here celebrates without any discrimination.

Although some people consider this festival as a part of the old tradition of trying to please a deity, because on this night all men, especially young people and children, burn wood as torches in bahrunkal karathas from their houses at night, according to them, in the olden days, the residents here were Buddhists. There were Buddhists who used to celebrate this festival at the beginning of the new Tibetan year to please their deity or to get blessings from him, but now there is no deity here and no Buddhists in the whole of Baltistan, so instead of attributing it to a deity. It would be appropriate to say and understand it as a regional festival because today's Baltistan, Alhamdulillah, is a region of 100% Muslims.

بلتستان میں جشن یوم جشن منایا جا رہا ہے 🎉🎉 اس وقت آپ سب کو سردیوں کا موسم پرامن ہو...
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Centuries old Mayfang Festival being celebrated in Baltistan

In Baltistan every year on 21 December a famous culture festival celebrates on this event There is nothing illegal in this festival, but in most places, children gather at the beginning of the day and go to the door of every house in the village or neighborhood and sing prayer songs according to the number of households in a special style and ask them for wood and kindling. Others ask for unnecessary household items and the family members immediately hand over firewood etc. to these children.

The children collect all these wood and waste materials in a nearby field so that they can light a fire at night.After the evening prayer, the celebration starts. On this occasion, it is also taken into consideration that if December 20 falls on the night of the martyrdom of an innocent person, then the program of the celebration is canceled from the beginning. They light their own torches and rotate it vigorously until they run out of torchwood.

Mom's Cooked special meals at night on this Events :

While the seniors are lighting the fire together, they are reciting Naat or any Manqbat in a loud voice.When the fire is completely extinguished, people happily return to their homes, where the women have prepared a variety of indigenous and foreign dishes, in which the invitation of their relatives, especially daughters-in-law and grandchildren, is mandatory, without which May Fung Can't even imagine the special food.

Let's understand that May Fung is the day when the bridegrooms take their fancy clothes. The origin of ceremony of this day is the bridegroom. Because if the son-in-law is happy, your daughter is also happy.

Thankfully, since the end of Buddhism in Baltistan, the Ulama have remained in hold until now. Therefore, instead of banning harmless festivals and rituals for no reason, they converted them into useful events and Islamized them to some extent, therefore Islam is not a threat. There is no ban on people's happiness. Yes, if any ritual directly conflicts with the teachings of Islam, then it must be avoid.Today Date is 21 December 2022 and whole Baltistan people is celebrating May fang day with zeal and zest.

The people Baltistan, Kargil & Tibet celebrates the Mayang festival:

The weeklong winter festival of lights (fire) is observing across the Baltistan region.
The people Baltistan, Kargil & Tibet celebrates the Mayang festival with zealously every year on the night of Dec 21, to mark the end of the longest night of the year.
Mayfang is the balti word which means waving fire and light at night. People dance, and feel happy on this day, holding fire lamps made of wood.
The main purpose of this event was to celebrate the end of the longest night of winter and welcome the New Year (Loser balti word). According to the community, there was a conception that the event helped locals avoid misfortunes.
People in the Baltistan region celebrate the event amid tough weather with temperatures dropping to as low as minuses 13 degree Celsius.

Jashan-e-mafang!! Mubarak to all inhabitants of Gilgit-Baltistan...(HS)..