Sita Devi Paudel of Devchuli Municipality 15 is now 60
years old. She has direct experience of more than 50 Dashains during her
lifetime, but the last 10-12 Dashains do not feel like Dashains to Sita Devi. She
says that after demolishing the mud house and building a new house with
concrete and cement about 12 years ago, she has not even seen the house covered
with red mud and mud.
"No matter how sad it is, a few days before
Ghatasthapana, bringing yellow paint and red clay and clay to decorate the
house, it felt like Dashain, but now, even though it is happy, it doesn't feel
like Dashain", says Sita Devi. The Khagisara Kafle of Hupsekot Rural
Municipality 3 also says that the Dashain of these days is very busy. He says,
"The house is painted with different colors, but it doesn't stay like red
clay and kamero".
In the past, the practice of painting houses with red clay
and kamero during Dashain and Tihar is disappearing. Those materials were used
especially in traditional style houses built using stone, mud and wood.
Recently, with the modernity, the use of cement has started to disappear.
Dashain starts from Ghatasthapana as soon as Pitripaksha is over. As soon as
Dashain begins, the first thing to do is to clean your house and yard and paint
it. On the day of Ghatasthapana, before placing Jamra, the house was covered
with red clay and kamero and then the house was cleaned and placed as jamara.
collect red soil on the hill of red soil in the Maharaja Community Forest even
before Dashain, but in the last few years, the number of people coming to
collect red soil can be counted on one's fingers, says Ganesh Chand, a watcher
of the community forest. After the wave of development along with modernity
entered the village, the houses covered with red mud and kamero are very rare
these days. Pandit Rimprasad Acharya says that with the increase in the
practice of painting houses with artificial colors from the market, the
practice of painting houses with red mud and clay is disappearing. He says that
once upon a time when Dashain comes, the houses are covered with red clay and decorated
with red clay, they make linge pings of father's ropes, they all clean the
Bataghata and the monastery of the village, but these days these customs are
disappearing in the name of modernity and the society is shrinking.
"A few years ago, covering the house with red clay and
kamero became like another part of Joy's culture along with Dashain
Tihar", says Pandit Acharya, "As the past customs are disappearing
with modernity, these things are becoming like history to the present
generation. , rice, oil in the village dhinki, janto and coal was the custom of
cutting. Due to increasing modernity and technology, dhiki, janto and coal are
also disappearing in village houses. The sound of dhiki, janto and kol heard
during the festival has stopped being heard.
technology, the originality of Dashain, Tihar and other festivals is
decreasing. Culture experts have expressed concern that before the start of
festivals like Dashain, red mud, painting houses and courtyards with clay and
applying lingeping, as the custom is disappearing, the festival is limited to
eating and enjoying modernity.
