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About Mizoram
One of the Seven Sister States in northeastern India, Mizoram is crammed between Myanmar in the east and south and Bangladesh in the west. The state is rich in flora and fauna, with different kinds of tropical trees and plants thriving in this scenic terrain.
The Festival
Locally, kut means festival. The three Kuts in Mizoram are Chapchar Kut, Mim Kut and Pawl Kut, all connected by agricultural activities and celebrated with feasts and dances. Farmers cut bamboo forests to make place for jhum (seasonal farming), and the season in which they wait for the chopped bamboo heaps to dry under sun before being burnt is called Chapchar. One of the oldest festivals of Mizoram, Chapchar Kut celebrates the arrival of spring in the month of March. This festival of happiness spans 4-5 days and is considered as the most important traditional festival of Mizoram.
The festival commences with the inauguration ceremony (Kut Puipate), followed by Then Katna or the occasion when the dance groups arrange themselves in the stadium. After this begins Then Hnihna, in which elderly members of the society come dressed in traditional clothes and hats made from beads and parrots' feathers, representing the individual tribes of the region and participate in an amazing procession called Kut rore. However, they do not wear any shoes. This is followed by multifarious tribal dances, of which the most important is Cheraw (bamboo dance), where only women take part while the men sit on the ground beating bamboos against each other. The party concludes with Then Thumna or the event where the local singers, joined by the cheering crowd, once again present the customary popular songs
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