03/09/2023
The Chapchar K*t is a festival of Mizoram. 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.
Chapchar K*t is estimated to have started in 1450–1700 A.D. in a village called Suaipui. The festival apparently originated when the hunters came back to the village empty handed, to make up for the disappointment, the Village chief proposed an impromptu feast with rice beer and meat. Since then, every year the festival had been repeated by the village of Suaipui and spread on to other villages.
Chapchar K*t is one of three annual festivals of the Mizos celebrated to mark three different stages of the agricultural cycle. The other two are Mim K*t and Pawl K*t.
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