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Lesson Our Folk Culture
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The Tharus people made their culture very rich. They
FACTS decorate rice containers, colourfully painted verandahs and
to Understand outer walls of their homes using only available materials
like clay, mud, dung and grass. The Deukheri Tharus are
known for their colourful shell and feather decorated
basketry, including ram topne water jug covers.

A folk culture is the practice started by our ancestors and handed down by the
ancestors from one generation to another generation. Folk culture mainly focus
on traditions practiced by a small community. In the past every activity was
based on oral tradition when there was no written concept. It was passed from
one generation to another without modifying the original one. It shows the old
ways that was followed by our ancestors. A folk culture is a unique tradition of a
small community in a particular place. Some of the elements of folk culture are
folk songs, dances musical instruments, day to day activities, arts, beliefs, rituals,
customs, thoughts, etc.

Folk Song

A folk song is a traditional song typically created by the people of a country of
a region which reflects the particular society and their activities. Folk songs
are locally composed songs with traditional tunes. It reflects the customs and
traditions, social practices, happiness and sorrow and the way of life in a particular
community.
Folk songs differ from one place to another one community to another and
according to festival. Among the various folk songs, some are given below:

!= ‘tfnsf] kfgL df5Ln] vfgL
lkl/d l;t hfgL ls ghfgL’

@= ‘/]zd lkml/l/ /]zd lkml/l/

p8]/ hfpFls 8fF8fdf e~HofÍ

/]zd lkml/l/========’

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