KATHMANDU: Bagmati State has announced a public holiday Friday on the occasion of the Sonam Lhosar festival.
It is the festival of Tamang community. Tamang people are the inhabitants of Nepal. They mark Sonam Losar as their New Year.
Lhosar is a combination of two words (Lho+Sar) in Tamang Literature. Lho stands for Year and Sar stands for New which we generally use in English as New Year.
The Tamang have a unique tradition of marking each year with distinct creatures, from a list of 12 which are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Bird, Dog and Boar.
This year the Tamang community is celebrating the year of rat which starts from January 25.
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