The festival of flower watching in the monsoon month of Bhadrapada in the Kinnaur valley is known as Fulaich and it commemorates the dead. However, it is not an occasion to weep and wail. The fair begins with animal sacrifices and soon all the villagers gather at a hill top and looks for the 'Ladra' flower. People serve rice, wine and food to the dear departed ones on a bundle of bricks. The food is later distributed to the poor and the Harijans in the village. Later the villagers reassemble at the house of the 'Dhangaspa' family and garland all the family members of the clan. The villagers also give a warm welcome to the people who had gone up the hills to look for flowers. Sacrifices are made into wood nymphs and at many places.
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