The Holi Color Festival is a very popular event, recently it has spread all over the world. What is hidden under the seemingly innocent sprinkling of each other with multi-colored paints?
Holi Color Festival is native to India. Here in Russia it has become extremely popular, and every year it gathers hundreds of thousands of people. The essence of the festival is to paint yourself and those around you with colored paints as much as possible. According to legend, the more you are painted, the more good wishes are sent to you. In recent years, the holiday has gone far beyond India and acquired a worldwide scale, and Russia is no exception. Holi Color Festival is a way to take a break from everyday life and paint your everyday life with bright colors.
The history of the Russian Holi Colors Festival dates back to May 2013, when the first festival was held in Moscow. Then it was not known how the public would react to such a strange activity. But the holiday created a real sensation not only among young people, but also among the older generation. But what really lies behind such a harmless and fun activity?
Holi paints, according to the manufacturers, are completely safe and harmless even for children. They contain only natural ingredients - mainly herbs, which are dried and crushed. Perhaps this is true, but participants very often come to festivals with their own paint, which they did not buy in specialized places. What is in the composition of such a paint is unknown. However, breathing this "dust" is not recommended, especially for children and people with asthma. In Luzhniki, it is forbidden to bring your own paint, but in other cities such restrictions are few and far between. And "businessmen", knowing about the upcoming festival, buy such paint from China, costing only a few kopecks, and sell it for 150 rubles, thus trying to cash in on the participants of the festival. In addition, the purchased Chinese paint often does not have the necessary certificates and its composition is rather doubtful.
The Holi Festival of Colors is an unusual and quite fun event, but not entirely safe for the above reason. In addition, this is just another way for entrepreneurs to cash in on the "joy" of people, buying a penny paint and selling it at exorbitant prices.
