Proverbs and riddles
The sayings that season every Punjabi conversation, and the riddles told round the fire on winter nights.
Punjabi talk is full of akhaan, proverbs: 'ਜਿੰਨੇ ਮੂੰਹ, ਓਨੀਆਂ ਗੱਲਾਂ', as many mouths, as many stories; 'ਨਾਲੇ ਚੋਰ, ਨਾਲੇ ਚਤਰ', a thief and a clever one too; 'ਘਰ ਦੀ ਮੁਰਗੀ ਦਾਲ ਬਰਾਬਰ', the hen at home is worth no more than lentils, what you have is never valued.
Bujharatan, riddles, were told by grandmothers on winter nights, describing everyday things, the spinning wheel, the plough, the moon, in puzzling verse. Folk Punjab and Rekhta's Punjabi pages collect hundreds of both.
More dress, sayings and games
The turban, the Punjabi suit, the tehmat and the chadra, the parandi in the hair and the jutti on the feet.
The games of the Punjabi village: girls spinning in kikli, boys at gulli-danda and pithu, and kites on every roof at Basant.
From roka to doli: the rituals of a Punjabi wedding, and the songs that go with each one.
The platform under the big tree in the village square, where the men sat, talked, played cards and settled quarrels.
The pointed leather shoe of the Punjab, embroidered in gold and silver thread for weddings.
The woven string bed carried into the courtyard by day and onto the roof at night, and the low stool beside it.