What is Mattu Pongal Festival and How Used To Pamper And Torture Bulls?

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Jagruti Shah
<h2>What is Mattu Pongal Festival and How Used To Pamper And Torture Bulls?</h2>
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Here few points we try to cover why Mattu Pongal Festival celebrates with Pamper And Torture Bulls

  1. Mattu or Mathu means cattle or bull and Mattu Pongal is the 3rd day of Pongal festival of the cattle.
  2. It’s a sort of thanksgiving to cow which provides milk and organic manure or fertilizer and bull which draws the plough.
  3. Cows and bulls are vital to the development of rural economy of India.
  4. In the morning, when the cattle are bathed, they are decorated. Horns are painted and crapped with special metal caps.
  5. This sport was very popular in rural Tamil Nadu and the tradition seems to be dying these days due to protests from animal activists.
  6. Young men try to control the bull barehanded and in the process hurt themselves and the bulls.
  7. In Andhra Pradesh, Mattu Pongal is similar to Kanuma Festival.
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