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Festivals of Mizoram
Festivals of Mizoram mainly centres around their agriculture and are generally of three types, Chap-char Kut, Mim Kut and Pawl Kut.
  Chapchar kut   Mim Kut   Pawl Kut
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Chapchar Festivals of Mizoram There are several types of festivals among the Mizos. Most of them are celebrated in relation with their agriculture according to season, crops and stages of their jhum operation. Dance and music take a central position during the celebration of festivals. The Mizos also consume rice-beer called Zu.

There are, in connection with the plantation of crops, three types of feasts called Chap-char Kut, Mim Kut and Pawl Kut. Chap-char Kut is the most significant spring festival held in between the cutting of junges and burning of jhums which is usually done in the last part of February and first part of March every year. This festival is celebrated with great enthusiasm and splendor. The meaning of the Chap-char Kut is cutting down of bamboo tree or other jungle tress and waiting for burning for jhum. The general belief of the Mizos behind the celebration of this festival is that it would yield a good harvest in their field. The next festival Pawl Kut is celebrated during the month of September to January when rice harvest is almost reaped. This festival is also celebrated with much enjoyment and feasting. This festival is mainly for the children who dress themselves in their best and feed on rice meat and boiled eggs. The following festival Min Kut is held during the month of August to September when the maize harvest is reaped. This festival is also celebrated with much pomp and fun. They mainly consume rice-beer during the celebration.
Pawl Kut
The Mizos also celebrate Mithi-rop lam (dance of the dead) feast. It is held in honour of the dead-members of a clan. They observe this occasion by keeping the effigies of the fore-fathers of various family members of the clan who are arranging the Mithi-rop lam feast. The respective descendants after the occasion take back the effigies after the dance and feast is over.
Christmas tree
The Mizos follow their traditional dances. Their most popular dance is the Cheraw (bamboo dance). Six girls gather together and squat on the ground holding bamboo poles. They move these bamboo poles rhythmically striking against one another. Six other girls dance moving between the shifting bamboos. Another popular dance is Khual lam. In this dance a group of boys gather together flying their hand rhythmically with turns below their own pnandum (a special Mizo shawl) on the tunes of gongs and drum beats. There is another dance of the Mizos known as Solakia. In this dance, men and women dance together rhythmically at the tune of drum beats by making a big circle.

(Last Updated on : 22/04/2011)
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