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<\/a>\n2. Chillai-Kalan, is the 40-day period of harsh winter. Chillai-Kalan begins from December 21 and ends on January 31 next year.<\/p>\n
Also Read:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 4. Interestingly according to Persian tradition, night of 21st December is celebrated as Shab-e Yalda-\u201cNight of Birth\u201d, or Shab-e Chelleh. \u2013 \u201cNight of Forty\u201d. Iranian Azerbaijanis call it Chilla Gejasi, which marks\u00a0the beginning of the first 40 days of winter. The Iranian concept also survives in Kashmir, where Chillai Kalan designates the 40-day harshest winter period.<\/p>\n Source<\/a><\/p>\n Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n 7. The snow during this 40-day period freezes\u00a0and lasts longer.<\/p>\n Source<\/a><\/p>\n Also Read<\/strong><\/p>\n 8. It is this snow that adds to the glaciers of the Valley and replenishes the perennial reservoirs that feed the rivers, streams and lakes in Kashmir during the months of summer. Any snowfall after the chillai kalan does not last long.<\/p>\n Source<\/a> Source<\/a> 11. Since many years there has been more snowfall and cold during chillai khurd and chillai bachcha than during chillai kalan.<\/p>\n 12 Kashmiri Street Foods You Should Have At Least Once<\/a> 1. The most severe part of the winter in Kashmir consists of three months. It is divided into three parts called the Chilas:- The Chillai Kalan, the Chillai Khurd, and the Challai Bache. 2. Chillai-Kalan, is the 40-day period of harsh winter. Chillai-Kalan begins from December 21 and ends on January 31 next year. 3….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,41,40,42,43],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashmiri-culture","tag-chilai-kalan","tag-chillai-bache","tag-chillai-kalan","tag-chillai-khurd","tag-winter-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dialkashmir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\n3. Chillai-Kalan is followed by a 20-day long Chillai-Khurd (small cold) \u00a0that occurs between January 31 and February 19 and a 10-day long Chillai-Bachha (baby cold) which is from February 20 to March 2.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\n5. During Chillai-Kalan, the weather in Kashmir valley continues to remain dry and cold with minimum temperatures hovering below the freezing point.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n6. The chances of snowfall are most frequent and maximum in Chillai-kalan.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\n9. It mostly remains overcast during this period and even if the sun breaks loose of the cloud cover, it is feeble and helpless against\u00a0the bone chilling power of chillai kalan.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n10. In the past, many families would prepare ‘Shebdeg’ on the first day of ‘Chillai Kalan’. A fat duck would be cooked with turnips and spices in an earthen vessel during the night intervening Dec 20-21.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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