A Celebration of Local Culture | Exploring the Cheap Market of My Village | The Friday Market of My Village

in #hive-17191214 days ago

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Today is Friday and on Friday, as I said on the last Friday, there is a beautiful fair in our village and in the afternoon, it gives a fair and splendor. When I finished my household work and duty, I offered Friday prayers. After offering Friday prayers, it is my habit every Friday to go to the cheap market, which is also called the Friday fair. When I reached this market today, I intended to buy many things, but today the things in the cheap market were very expensive, but one thing among these things that was being sold very cheaply was vegetables. Fresh vegetables, vegetables prepared from fresh water, were very cheap and so cheap that two kilos of tomatoes were being sold for only half a dollar and cauliflower was so cheap that 10 kilos were being sold for one cent. But cabbage was expensive, but cucumbers, green peas, all these vegetables were being sold at very cheap prices. People were buying vegetables, but when I went to the fruit section, I was shocked when I found out the prices of fruits, they were very expensive, even oranges and apples were being sold at very high prices.

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When I completely examined the Friday market and asked the prices, then I made a plan to buy the items. First of all, I bought tomatoes, capsicum and green chillies, cabbage, cauliflower, and spinach. I wanted to buy spinach, but I did not buy spinach because two or three weeks ago we had made spinach food, but when our whole family ate spinach, they faced a lot of difficulty because after eating spinach, everyone felt that their health and their system had deteriorated. So we all thought that all this was because of spinach, either spinach is out of season or spinach is not good to eat in this season. After that, I bought ginger, garlic and many other vegetables. After buying these items, I went to the other section of the Friday market, where there were more fruits etc.

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Last Friday when I bought carrots, the prices of carrots were very low. I bought 10 kg of carrots for just two dollars, or even cheaper. I should say that I bought seven kg of carrots for one dollar last Friday, but this time the rate of carrots was very high. Five kg of carrots were being sold for one dollar, while somewhere some shopkeepers were charging even one and a half dollars. But I did not buy carrots because I did not like the quality of the carrots. When I asked the shopkeeper why the carrots were so expensive, he said that the carrot season was ending, so there were very few carrots in the market, so their prices were also going up day by day. When I heard this, the exact same picture was formed in my mind, just like in the crypto market, when the supply is low and the demand is high, then the prices of tokens go up due to the low supply, and when the supply is very high, then the prices of tokens go down. In this way, the carrots The case was similar, there was a difference between supply and demand, so the prices of carrots were going up day by day, so I didn't buy carrots, but I went to the next section where fruits were being sold.

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First I bought oranges but the prices of oranges were very high. A dozen oranges were being sold for $1. I bought a dozen oranges. Among oranges, I like the Kino orange the most, but my children like the Sugar orange the most. The Kino orange had a high price and the Sugar orange had a low price. If you look at it, the Sugar orange is very sweet, while the other orange, which we call Kino, is slightly less sweet but has a sour taste. Some people like the less sour orange and some like the very sweet orange. The Sugar orange is the sweetest and the Kino orange has a slight sour taste, which many people like. So I bought a dozen of both. Then I went ahead and thought that some people would also buy bananas. The prices of bananas were also very high, so I bought bananas. Then I saw a very good variety. The fruit that is sold in our Pakistan and is liked all over the world is called strawberry. Strawberry which is red in color looks very beautiful and tastes sour when eaten. So I bought some strawberries. Strawberries were very expensive and had to be taken for a test because the family wanted to change some tests. So I bought strawberries. Guavas were very cheap so I also bought guavas and I bought three kilos of guavas. When something is cheap, a person wants to buy more because who knows if it will become expensive in the coming days and then a person will not be able to eat it to his full stomach. So when it is cheap, why not eat it to his full stomach? So I bought three kilos of guavas. I kept shopping like this and it was a pleasure.

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When I was walking around the Friday market, I saw that many people were eating sesame miranda. I don't know what it is called in English, but I will say that it is a sweet food that is made from white sesame seeds or chickpeas and the method of making it is also very easy. Someday I will try to share with you all through my article or recipe how to make this sesame miranda. The miranda of hearts contains sesame seeds and sugar and then people eat it and it is very crunchy and it is a sweet dish that is most liked not in summer but in winter. Very few people eat it in summer because its effect is hot. So in summer people eat cold things which have a cooling effect in the stomach. Since the weather is cold in winter, the body needs warm effects and things. Then this miranda which is made from white sesame seeds or white chickpeas is very popular. It is made with gurkha. It is also made without sugar and it is also made with sugar. Every person has his own unique taste. He eats whatever taste he wants. If he wants to eat Maronda with jaggery, he eats it or if he wants to eat gram, he eats it. But whether it is made with gram or sesame, both are delicious and these people eat it with great enthusiasm, especially at night, in the evening tea. So I bought some of that too so that it can be enjoyed with the evening tea.

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I met a balloon seller. When I asked the balloon seller how much this balloon cost, he said, "Sir, the price of this balloon is 200 rupees." I said, "Dude, at the shop, you can get a balloon without inflating for only 20 rupees. You are selling it for 200 rupees." He said, "What should we do? We also have to make a profit. But I said, "You are selling it very expensive." He asked me, "How much do you want to pay?" I said, "I don't want to buy even one rupee because I don't need henna." Then I told him, "Let's take a selfie together." He refused to take a selfie. He thought I was doing some investigation and would catch him. I told him, "Don't worry, I want to take a selfie with you." He said, "If you want to take a selfie, take a selfie with the balloon. I don't let you take a selfie with me." I said, "No problem." But then he agreed and then we both took a selfie together and in this way this time these beautiful moments passed and I kept shopping and while shopping when I was done I thought let's go to the ATM machine and get some money and draw but when I reached the bank I saw that there was a very long line of people using the ATM but there was no money in the ATM machine because the bank manager was putting money in the ATM machine now it was taking them 20 to 30 minutes more so I thought it's okay if not today then tomorrow we will use the ATM machine so then I returned home when I returned home I put all the stuff in the freezer kept it in the kitchen and gave it to my family and then I sat down to share this beautiful journey with you all so I hope you will definitely like this beautiful journey of mine today

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Every day brings a different color, whether it is Friday or any other day of the week, every day gives us an opportunity to learn something or the other, and every journey of ours teaches us something or the other. But if we act even a little consciously, our shopping, asking the prices of different items, all these things give us the proof that whatever we have to do, we have to do it with thought and understanding. Why did I go to the Friday market? I went to the Friday market because cheap items are sold there and I should get some benefit by buying these cheap items and in this way I will also save some money. And if something is being sold expensive there, I should check the rest of the market and buy that item from where I will get it cheaply. So this whole journey teaches us something or the other. But the purpose of writing my article today was to share these beautiful pictures of my village with you, this beautiful color of our area, which we call the Friday market, which is also known as the cheap market, I will show you some beautiful glimpses of it here. But let me show you pictures of how these cheap bazaars are organized in our village and how we go here and show you how we are shopping here. Such cheap bazaars are organized in every city, every village, every country and we should highlight all these things through Hive social media so that we can show the beautiful colors of our region to the whole world. So the purpose of my article today was to share this beautiful journey with you and also write something about this beautiful cheap market of my village so that you will be happy after reading it. I thank you all very much that you read my article today and liked it after reading it. Thank you all very much.

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Sir fully enjoy

han g fully enjoy 🤗

Friday mela is our traditional and old mela in which people around the local area come here and purchase the things and enjoy the gathering.It has colorful reflections of our traditions.

بلکل آپ نے درست کہا اور ایسے میلے ہماری ثقافت کا حصہ بھی ، بہت شکریہ جناب 🌷

Sir!
Nice post. Jumma Bazaar is a big gathering in your area where people from all over the district especially from its neighboring towns of Paikhel, Deliwali and Swans come to enjoy the fair.