Uttar Pradesh Allahabad (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) is one of the world's largest human gathering places.

12 years in a big pot of festival (also known as the Ganges kumbha mela, also some media called "bath FoJie") and between the two big pot of section in the sixth year of small pot festival is held here.

During the festival, people hold the largest bath activities in sangam sandbars.Sangam in India for "convergence", commonly used to mean three great river, the Ganges in India, and jose that river and swahili Sarah (dubbed the mystic river) - meet.

During the festival, 70 million people came here, quietly for the old bathing ceremony.

Bath who live in composed of a large tent "city", bathed in the sangam sandbars.They believe that the water washes away the iniquity of life, and put an end to the endless cycle.

At the start of the main bath activity, entangled with those for the hair and beard, armed with a variety of multiplier or hand saints first came to the river.

The saints are ascetic organization "Naga Sadhus" (dragon saints) members.Large Numbers of ordinary believers and those with fever ascetic appears in the image of a distance.

For 43 days during the festival, there are six days is considered the most auspicious, the six days of the day, people will let the yogi bath first.

The festival originated in Hindu mythology.In mythology, the gods and demons to a pot of can let them the nectar of immortality and belligerent, specific story 】 【 a gods take pot, splashing out 12 drops of nectar, four of them falls in India, allahabad is one of them, others stay in a day.After a big pot of festival was held in 2001, the next big pot of section will begin in January 27, 2013, until February 25.