What does Deepavali mean?
It means on this special day, the Hindus must light up candles in their home to signify the trumph of good over evil. Before that, they must wake up early to go to the temple and pray first. Not only that they have to clean the dust and dirt in their house
Those people who are going to visit to the Hindus' house, they wear their traditional Hindu clothes and costume in term of bright colour. They have to bring along some sweet stuff to give to the owner to bless them with health and have a smooth life ahead .
They use the coloured sweet rice to draw some decorative pictures outside their doorstep to attract ants so they have good luck in the rest of the months.
But I have checked out wif my Indian friend who is going to invite me to his house for dinner, said that all those customs and cultures mentioned above, are done by those traditional Hindus. As for his mum and him, both of them are quite modern as they pasted a big sticker on the floor outside his doorstep and used lightbulbs to hang on the curtains.
Overall, I realise somehow or rather their festival is similar to Chinese New Year.
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