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Festivals of the Kabui
are closely linked up with religion, which is associated with their
economic vocation and socio-cultural ethos. Festivals reflect different
stages of agricultural activities, here talents, physical strength are
expressed. Every month there is a festival.
Listed below are some of the important festivals:
Gan-Ngai
Rih-Ngai (Chaga Ngai)
Gudui-Ngai
Gan-Ngai
This festival is celebrated in the month of December-January after harvest
for 5 (five) days. Blowing horn herald the festival, fresh fire is made
with the ancient friction method and distributed in every household.
Villagers, irrespective of age dressed in their best attire, keep up the
dance and songs, intercepting only by short intervals of repose and break
dedicated to feasting.
Rih-Ngai (Chaga Ngai)
This festival is celebrate during January-February is this War festival
which is exclusively for male. No stranger is allowed to enter the
village. Men abstain from sexual intercourse and foods cooked by women are
not taken. An interesting feature is Raangh-Kapmei or shooting at an
effigy of a warrior with pointed bamboo splits.
Gudui-Ngai
This festival is celebrated during the seed-sowing season in April. After
completion of task like clearance of jungle for cultivation everyone will
drink juice (dui) of ginger (Gu). Tug of war is performed between male and
female as a symbolic representation of competition between God and Goddess
for possessing the paddy. If the girls win it indicates a good harvest.
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