Chapchar Kut

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Recently, Mizoram’s most important and largest spring festival Chapchar Kut concluded a week-long series of cultural festivities.

About Chapchar Kut

• It is a spring festival celebrated in the state of Mizoram.
• Background: It is estimated to have started in 1450–1700 A.D. in a village called Suaipui.
• It is celebrated during March after completion of their most arduous task of jhum operation i.e., jungle-clearing (clearing of the remnants of burning).
• During this festival, both the men and women get dressed in their traditional attire with distinguished headgears and traditional jewelry 
• All the people gather for a huge community fest to sing and dance to the tune of flute, cymbals, drums and gongs.
• One of the greatest highlights of Chapchar Kut is the popular bamboo dance called Cheraw
  • Bamboo dance features men tapping the bamboo sticks according to the rhythm of the dance and women adjust their dance moves with moving sticks.
  • Various movements made by the Cheraw dancers are inspired by nature. 
• Other Festivals of Mizoram: Pawl Kut, Lyuva Khutla and Anthurium Festival

Source: News On Air

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