{"id":67562,"date":"2025-10-09T13:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=67562"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:51:20","slug":"mera-hou-chongba-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mera-hou-chongba-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mera Hou Chongba Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mera Hou Chongba Festival Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Mera Hou Chongba festival, which symbolises Hill-valley unity was celebrated in Manipur.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mera Hou Chongba Festival<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>celebrated in Manipur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the 15th lunar day of the Mera month of the <\/span><b>Meitei calendar every year.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The festival&#8217;s historical roots are believed to date back to the time of <\/span><b>Nongda Lairen Pakhangba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a legendary early ruler of Manipur.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rituals:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Manipur titular King lead a ritual march involving <\/span><b>tribal village chiefs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the Manipur Royal Palace to the historic Kangla, where traditional rituals, including <\/span><b>Mera Thaomei Thanba <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(lighting of the ceremonial fire) and <\/span><b>Mera Yenkhong Tamba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (exchange of gifts).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The festival will culminate with a <\/span><b>showcase of cultural dances<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a grand feast marking the brotherhood among different tribes in the state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the only festival in Manipur in which <\/span><b>all indigenous communities participate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and it has a significant importance in the unity and communal harmony of Manipur.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/manipur-celebrates-mera-hou-chongba-symbol-of-hill-valley-unity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News on Air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mera Hou Chongba Festival is celebrated in Manipur on the 15th lunar day of the Mera month of the Meitei calendar every year. Read more about Mera Hou Chongba Festival, State, Rituals, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":67600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-67562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}