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The practice of decorating the house during Dasain is an old one. With the cessation of monsoon, houses in villages and cities have also started to be painted.
To the rural residents The traditional colors are red clay and kamero, and they have started rubbing the house with a brush and a mop. Not only rural settlements, but also in cities, houses are painted with different brands of paint, enamel and lime.
from tradition to home in the village The kamero, red and yellow clays used have been industrially manufactured for the last few years. Ocher and lime have started to displace . The tradition of mixing black with mustard oil, which is used for dyeing the clothes of the house, and the black used in the torch light, is now deserted.
Ratnechaur is the only place in the district where red soil is found. After replacing the red clay with ochre, there is no red clay digging fair in Ratnechaur as before. After stopping the digging of red soil in the community forest, people They sell their garden soil in sacks. Some people who come to collect soil also take it by car.
'Until a few years ago, we used to reach Ratnechaur and bring red clay to the house during Dashain. Phoolkumari Bhandari of Raghuganga Rural Municipality-2 Bhagwati said, "The color of the soil is washed away when it rains, when people stick it, it gets stained, if you mix a little fevicol with ocher, it does not wash off with water, nor does it get on the clothes." Cheap but also safe.'
Even in Dasain, the culture of painting the house during the festival is the same, but the nature of the colors used in the house has changed.
'For the last few years, the demand for ocher to paint houses has increased, especially during Dashain. Business of ocher during the 15 days before Dashain is different from other times of the year when it is sold Mukund Sharma of Vishal Hardware located at 8 Campus Chowk, Beni Municipality, headquarter Beni, said, "The house will be covered with ocher color like red or black clay.
