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Mizos
practice what is known as ‘Jhum Cultivation’. They slash
down the jungle, burn the trunks and leaves and cultivate the land.
All their other activities revolve around the jhum operations and
their festivals are all connected with such agriculture operations.
Mim Kut :
It takes place in August-September in the wake of harvesting of
the maize crop, is celebrated with great gaiety and merriment expressed
through singing, dancing, feasting and drinking of home made rice
beer zu. Dedicated to the memory of their dead relatives, the festival
is underlined by a spirit of thanksgiving and remembrance of the
years first harvest is placed as an offering on a raised platform
built to the memory of the dead.
Pawl Kut :
Pawl Kut is Harvest Festival - celebrated during December to January.
Again, a mood of thanksgiving is evident, because the difficult task
of titling and harvesting is over. Community feasts are organised
and dances are performed. Mothers with their children sit on memorial
platform and feed one another. This custom, which is also performed
during Chapchar Kut, is known as 'Chawnghnawt'. Drinking of zu is
also part of the festival. The two-day is followed by a day of complete
rest when no one goes out to work.
Chapchar Kut :
Of all the Kuts of the Mizo, Chapchar Kut has emerged as the most
popular and enjoyable, owing perhaps to the humorous stories of its
origin and the favourable time when the festival is observed-Spring
!
Long, long ago, so the history goes, when the Lusheis lived in the
famous village of Seipui, a group of brave youngmen of the village
ventured out into the deep forest to hunt for wild animals. After
a long and tiresome hunting, the party came back empty-handed and
without any trophy. But the chief had a bright idea. To cover their
embarrassment and discomfiture of the party, he arranged a grand feast
by killing a number of animals. The entire community was invited to
partake the feast. The people responded to the gesture in good spirit
and joined the feast by contributing whatever they had- some came
with their home-brewed pots of beer, some men came with small pots,
some with bigger pots of beer and so, there war plenty of rice-beer
to go round to enliven singing, some clapping their hands and some
got on their feet and started dancing on the village court-yard. The
feast which was arranged by the chief became a veritable impromptu
festival. Thus, CHAPCHAR KUT was born.
