A Festival Full of Color and Love – Holi Lets the World Experience a Colorful Life

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Holi is an important festival for Indians and Hindus, as well as the traditional New Year in India. This year on March 29th, it was celebrated with great enthusiasm in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA. Revelers danced to music and beer while incorporating yoga moves, raising their colorful hands high in a lively and colorful celebration of the festival.

Have you heard of Holi (the Festival of Colors)? If you’ve seen the movie “The World is Flat,” you must remember the memorable scene where the protagonist Todd accidentally hits the streets and engages in a playful fight with celebrating passersby, ending up covered in bright colors from head to toe.

Holi is an important festival in India, Nepal, Suriname, the United Kingdom, Mauritius, and Fiji. Later, this spirit of celebrating spring and unrestrained revelry spread to Malaysia, the United States, South Africa, Brazil, and the Netherlands, where it is celebrated in various forms, integrating local cultures.

▲ 2014, Utah, USA, Krishna Temple, Holi Celebration (Photo / Screenshot fromAP Fan Page)

▲ Holi Celebration at Krishna Temple, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA (Photo / Screenshot from Wikipedia)

Holi (also known as the Festival of Colors) originally stems from the Hindu beliefs in creation and renewal, celebrating the spring equinox and the harvest of grains. It is a festival full of love and color. Andplaying pranks and having fun are the very spirits of Holi. In India, people of lower castes traditionally throw colored powder and paint at those of higher castes, temporarily forgetting caste differences.

▲ Scene of Holi celebrations in Brazil (Photo / Screenshot from Wikipedia)　
 

▲ Germany (Photo / Screenshot from Wikipedia)

Additionally, activities well-known to people in Taiwan, such as the American-originated Color Run, Run or Dye, and Color Me Rad, are all inspired by Holi. These events allow people around the world to play like children amidst a riot of colors and experience a colorful life.