{"id":80238,"date":"2014-04-16T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=80238"},"modified":"2014-04-16T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:28:45","slug":"happy-new-year-colourful-powder-chariot-pulling-and-sacrificial-chickens-mark-the-start-of-2071-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=80238","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year! Colourful powder, chariot pulling and sacrificial chickens mark the start of 2071 in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nepal-New-Year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80232\" alt=\"Nepal- New Year\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nepal-New-Year.jpg\" width=\"964\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nepal-New-Year.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nepal-New-Year-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Nepal-New-Year-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their faces covered in colourful powder, this is how Nepalese revellers celebrate the New Year \u2013 marking the start of 2071.<\/p>\n<p>The Bisket Jatra festival takes place over nine days in Bhaktapur, Nepal, with rituals and dancing \u2013 as well as symbolic offerings to god-like figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u0546\u0565\u057a\u0561\u056c\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u057f\u0578\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0565\u0576-2071\u0569-\u056b-\u057d\u056f\u056b\u0566\u0562\u0568.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80234\" alt=\"\u0546\u0565\u057a\u0561\u056c\u0578\u0582\u0574 \u057f\u0578\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0574 \u0565\u0576 2071\u0569-\u056b \u057d\u056f\u056b\u0566\u0562\u0568\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u0546\u0565\u057a\u0561\u056c\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u057f\u0578\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0565\u0576-2071\u0569-\u056b-\u057d\u056f\u056b\u0566\u0562\u0568.jpg\" width=\"931\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u0546\u0565\u057a\u0561\u056c\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u057f\u0578\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0565\u0576-2071\u0569-\u056b-\u057d\u056f\u056b\u0566\u0562\u0568.jpg 931w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u0546\u0565\u057a\u0561\u056c\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u057f\u0578\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0565\u0576-2071\u0569-\u056b-\u057d\u056f\u056b\u0566\u0562\u0568-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/\u0546\u0565\u057a\u0561\u056c\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u057f\u0578\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0574-\u0565\u0576-2071\u0569-\u056b-\u057d\u056f\u056b\u0566\u0562\u0568-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the celebrations, a three-storey wooden chariot carrying the revered idol of Bhairab is pulled through the narrow streets by local men, before a huge tree trunk is erected \u2013 representing the union of man and woman.<\/p>\n<p>The religious festival \u2013 which marks the year 2071 in the Bikram calendar &#8211; also sees locals sacrificing chickens for a statue of god-figure Lingam.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s festivities will run from April 10 to 19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Their faces covered in colourful powder, this is how Nepalese revellers celebrate the New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[8123],"class_list":["post-80238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-nepal","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}