Aadi Perukku 2021 date is August 3. Aadi Pirappu or Aadi Monsoon Festival is a Hindu festival celebrated mainly in Tamil Nadu during the Tamil month of Adi. The festival is observed to pay tribute to nature's water life-sustaining properties. Hence, the festival is celebrated near river basins, lakes and wells.
How to Perform Aadi Perukku
As a general custom on Aadi Perukku day, people gather at the riversides and perform Poojas and offer prayers to river goddess. The highlight of the festival is the offering of Chitrannam or the rice cooked in different flavors, colors and ingredients. The variety rice includes coconut rice, sweet jaggery rice, Lime rice, Pulikachal, Ellu (sesame) rice and Thayir satham (curd rice).
The puja is performed to the River Goddess with Vettilai and paaku (betel leaves and nuts), Pazham (banana), coconut and concluded with a deeparadhana. It is believed that if young girls who offer Kaadholai (ear-rings made of palm leaf), Karugamani (black beads) and Kaapparisi (a sweet made of hand crushed rice and jaggery) are blessed with good husbands.
Added attractions of Aadiperukku festival are the dance performances for the Aadiperukku folk songs and Kummi by young women.
How to Perform Aadi Perukku
As a general custom on Aadi Perukku day, people gather at the riversides and perform Poojas and offer prayers to river goddess. The highlight of the festival is the offering of Chitrannam or the rice cooked in different flavors, colors and ingredients. The variety rice includes coconut rice, sweet jaggery rice, Lime rice, Pulikachal, Ellu (sesame) rice and Thayir satham (curd rice).
The puja is performed to the River Goddess with Vettilai and paaku (betel leaves and nuts), Pazham (banana), coconut and concluded with a deeparadhana. It is believed that if young girls who offer Kaadholai (ear-rings made of palm leaf), Karugamani (black beads) and Kaapparisi (a sweet made of hand crushed rice and jaggery) are blessed with good husbands.
Added attractions of Aadiperukku festival are the dance performances for the Aadiperukku folk songs and Kummi by young women.
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