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The Chapchar Kut is a festival of Mizoram, India.[1] It is celebrated during March after completion of their most arduous task of jhum operation i.e., jungle-clearing (clearing of the remnants of burning). It is a spring festival celebrated with great favour and gaiety. (ref;wikipedia)
Celebration
Oral traditions say Chapchar Kut was first celebrated in Seipui village in adjoining Myanmar that has a sizeable population of Mizos and their ethnic cousins. Chapchar Kut used to be celebrated to thank the gods for saving the people from harm during the clearing of forest on hill slopes for jhum cultivation at the beginning of a year. The festival used to be observed with a lot of drinking and eating. On the first night the young men and women would dance all night. The women would come dressed wearing a Vakiria. Chai dance has its origins in this festival.[6]
Cheraw dance is performed during Chapchar Kut.
Today, the festival is observed in the last part of February or the early part of March when the trees and bamboos felled for jhum are left to dry and the shifting cultivators have time to relax and enjoy.[7]
The Main activities which are done during the Chapachar Kut are:
Chhawnghnawh - A pre-Christian custom of stuffing a boiled eggs into each other's mouths.[8]
Dance - Cheraw dance is the Main dance but other dances performed during the festival are Khuallam, Chheihlam, Chai and Sarlamkai[9]
Arts, craft and Photo Exhibition.[10]
Chapchar Kut run.[11]
Mizo Traditional Games and costume parade.[12]
Wearing of Traditional dress at work places.[13]
Stalls with Etnnic cuisine.[14]
Mizo people
The Mizo people (Mizo: Mizo hnam) are Zo people native to north-eastern India, this term covers several ethnic peoples who speak various Kuki-Chin languages. The Mizos are indigenous people in the Indian state of Mizoram and its neighboring areas. All Mizo tribes and clans, in their folk legends, claim that Chhinlung/Sinlung/Khul, which means 'enclosed with a rock' in the Mizo language was the cradle of the Mizos.
The present Indian state of Mizoram (literally "Mizoland") was called the Lushai Hills or Lushai District and was defined as an excluded area[2] during the British Raj and a district of Assam in independent India.
The Mizos were particularly dissatisfied with the government's inadequate response to the 1959-60 mautam famine. The Mizo National Famine Front, a body formed for famine relief in 1959, later developed into a new political organisation, the Mizo National Front (MNF) in 1961.[3] A period of protests and armed insurgency followed in the 1960s, with the MNF seeking independence from India.[4] In 1971, the government agreed to convert the Mizo Hills into a Union Territory, which came into being as Mizoram in 1972. Following the Mizoram Peace Accord (1986) between the Government and the MNF, Mizoram was declared a full-fledged state of India in 1987.[5]
As the people organized, they chose to identify as Mizo rather than by individual clan/tribe names. Thus, there is no Mizo Tribe as such, rather an umbrella name for all the different tribes. However, there still are some groups who refuse to be termed Mizo and caused minor conflicts between the two. These groups are mostly from outside the State Of Mizoram, living in the neighboring territories.
Of their languages, the most widely spoken is the Mizo ṭawng, which is the common language of all Mizos, which belong to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The state has one of the highest literacy rates in India, at more than 90%. The official language is Mizo.

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