Everest country celebrates 365 festivals a year
Nepal .. Speaks for itself in the language of creativity at the «Dubai Expo»
Nepal displays features of its rituals at Expo Dubai.
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In all the languages of creativity, Nepal expresses itself at Expo 2020 Dubai, as its pavilion competes in the colors of arts such as drawing, knitting, sculpting, shaping and photography, to tell features of the story of a country in which the number of festivals exceeds the 365 days of the year, to resound in its cities every day a feast and celebration, which lights up Each of them is based on the culture of a people and its rich cultural heritage, the green nature of its country with 6000 rivers, and the home of the world's highest peak, the famous “Everest”, known in Nepali as “Sagarmatha”.
A group of gold sculptures, oil paintings, copper pots and musical instruments tell stories about a number of monuments in a country where agriculture is the mainstay in its economic components, as it employs about 65% of the workforce in Nepal, which was famous since ancient times for its superiority in the design of irrigation systems and graduated wells. and stone taps.
The Nepal pavilion highlights that the country, which is famous for the meekness of its people and remarkable calm, does not stop celebrating all days of the year, as festivals are held in it daily, which makes it a unified social ritual for members of society, and a force capable of enhancing cultural memory and stimulating positive energy, which is exactly what reaches the visitor's sense of pavilion Shining and brimming with the presence of an impressive group of artworks, each of which is linked to a cultural, civilizational or intellectual landmark, Nepal wanted to tell the world about at Expo Dubai.
golden symbols
Nepal is displaying among the pavilion's unique collections, a gold-plated sculpture that matches a symbol of Hindu culture known as Kaal Bhairav, which is located in the Kathmandu Dharabar Square in the Nepalese capital, an area registered in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
The pavilion visitor will stop for a long time in front of another sculpture of gold plated representing what is known in Buddhist philosophy as the Hevajra Mandala, which is designed in the form of a two-dimensional model in the form of a circle, to symbolize the movement of the planets in the universe, which is synonymous with the movement of thought and feelings during the human journey in his search for himself. On a path that starts from the outer layers of the "cosmos", to dive into a group of layers that the journey cuts into the depths of the human soul.
Nepal also made for its visitors at the Expo Dubai a masterpiece identical to the so-called Swoyambhu Stupa, an ancient archaeological complex dating back more than 2000 years, of great importance to the Nepalese, and located on a hill among the dense trees in the capital, Kathmandu. her suite.
The complex consists of a number of temples dating back to antiquity, in addition to a role that was added later, as well as a library and a museum belonging to Buddhist culture.
The complex includes various facilities that include restaurants. It is also famous for the presence of stone stairs that surround it and connect the highest point of it on the highest point of the hill with its base, on a path that visitors take on foot on a spiritual and cultural journey.
Wealth
The pavilion also displays a set of containers for storing grain, transporting water and drinking containers in Nepal, which is famous for its history of appreciating water wealth, as it relies on it in agriculture and currently generating hydroelectricity.
The Karuwa, a jug-like drinking vessel that displays one of its models in the pavilion, is a unique handcrafted artifact of Nepalese craftsmanship.
The largest "Karuwa" in Asia was found in the Palpa district of Nepal, and the province itself made the largest "Karuwa" in the world from bronze, weighing 150 kilograms.
Those utensils used for daily use are now made of copper, but in the past they were made not only of copper, but of gold and silver, whether for decoration or for daily use.
• Drawing, weaving, sculpting and photography...Arts converge at the Nepal Pavilion at the International Exhibition.
• A group of golden sculptures, paintings, utensils and musical instruments, telling stories about the features of Nepal in the "Dubai Expo".
A trip to Shangri-La
A festival trip between artifacts, paintings and carpets with beautiful drawings, which leads the visitor in the Nepal pavilion towards a country where the so-called “Shangri-La” applies, a word that combines the descriptions of a quiet, extremely beautiful and often remote imagined place, where a person gets what he wants and feels a moral happiness that emanates from Inner calm and peace.