{"id":3318,"date":"2023-02-26T01:03:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:11:13","slug":"unying-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/unying-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Unying Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Unying Festival:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The festival of Unying is celebrated to herald the <strong>season of cultivation<\/strong>, the beginning <strong>of the Adi community\u2019s New Year<\/strong>, arrival of spring seasons as well as a great way to strengthen the bond among the community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Adi community<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are believed to have come <strong>from southern china in the 16th century.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Adi constitute a major group and inhabit the lower part of the Lower Dibang Valley district, especially the Roing and Dambuk areas of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>They are experts in making <strong>cane and bamboo items.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Adis are basically <strong>dependent on agriculture<\/strong>. Both wet rice cultivation and shifting cultivation are practised.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Solung<\/strong> (a harvesting festival where animal sacrifices and rituals are performed) and Aran ( a hunting festival where all the male members of the family go hunting) are two major festivals of the Adi tribes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the climatic conditions required for bamboo cultivation?<\/h3>\n<p>The wet and tropical conditions in India are best suited for Bamboo farming. Bamboo plants require a slightly acidic pH soil for the best possible health and growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1902396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Shri Sarbananda Sonowal celebrates Unying Festival at Boleng, Arunachal Pradesh<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival of Unying is celebrated to herald the season of cultivation, the beginning of the Adi community\u2019s New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}