Festivals Celebrated in Manipur: 2014

Monday, 22 December 2014

Kwak Jatra-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

Goddess Durga is propitiated with pomp and ceremony in this festival. It is celebrated in the month of October and represents the victory of righteousness over evil.

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Lui-Ngai-Ni Festival-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

The Lui-Ngai-Ni Festival is one of the biggest festivals of the Nagas (Anal, Mao, Maram, Poumai, Tangkhul, Zemei, Liangmai, Rongmei, Puimei, Moyon, Monshang, Maring, Tarao, Lamkanq, Chothe, Kharam, Chiru, Koireng, and Thangal Naga tribes) of Manipur. Lui-Ngai-Ni Festival is a seed sowing festival and marks the onset of the sowing season. The festival is celebrated every year with great zeal in all the Naga inhabited areas of Manipur.

Lui-Ngai-Ni is a cultural festival and is marked by a plethora of cultural displays and events. The main highlights of the Lui-Ngai-Ni celebrations are:

lighting of the sacred fire
blessing of the seeds to be sown for the season
traditional log drum beating
traditional folk dances and songs
traditional fire making

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Ningol Chakouba Festival-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

The Ningol Chakouba Festival is an outstanding social festival of the Meiteis, when the married women of the family, who were married off to distant places, come to their parental house along with their children and is served with a lavish and extensive meal to enjoy. This festival is a form of a family get-together in order to revive the family affection. In the present times this festival is observed by the Pangals or the Manipuri Muslims to some extent.

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Heikru Hidongba-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

“Heikru Hidongba” is a socio-religious ceremony performed every year at the moat of the Sagolband Bijoy Govinda Leikai, Imphal on the 11th day of the Manipuri Calendar month Langban with elements of religious, custom and other traditional belief of creation.

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Cheiraoba festival-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

Manipur celebrates Sajibu Cheiraoba, the new year of the Manipuris on Thursday. Cheiraoba marks the beginning of a new cycle of life in Meitei calender.

Praying to the indigenous Gods, traditional feasting and pilgrim up the sacred abodes of the Gods mark the occasion. The President of Pranab Mukherjee, Governor of Manipur, Gurbachand Jagat, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi, Lok Sabha MP Dr T Meinya have extended their warmest greetings to all the Manipuri communities on the occasion of Sajibu Cheiraoba festival.

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Gang Ngai Festival-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

The festival of gang-Ngai starts with the omen taking ceremony. During the fist day of this five day festival, the Kabui Nagas honor their ancestors through sacred rituals. The first day is followed by four days of incessant celebrations. There are community feasts, various programs of music and dance performances that keep the audience mesmerized for a long time. It is through this festival of Gang-Ngai in Manipur that the Kabui Nagas get a chance to conserve and safeguard their religion. The streets full of men and women dancing in their colorful traditional attires, to the tunes of melodious ethic instruments, surrounded by enthusiastic audiences, presents a pretty sight in Manipur. There is also an exchange of gifts between friends and family during the Gang-Ngai Festival in Manipur.
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KUT - the festival of Kuki-Chin-Mizo-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

It is an autumn festival of the different tribes of Kuki-Chin-Mizo groups of Manipur. The festival has been variously described at different places amongst different tribes as Chavang-Kut or Khodou etc. It is a happy occasion for the villagers whose food stock is boundiful after a year of hard labour. The festival is a thanks giving featsts with songs and dances in merriment and joviality for all, in honour of the giver of an abundant harvest, it is observed on the 1st of November every year.

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Kang- Rathayatra-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

Rathayatra locally known as 'Kang', is held on the second new moon of Inga (June-July) for ten days and is one of the main festivals of Hindus of Manipur. During the Rathayatra the procession follows the music party with a pung (drum), nahal (large cymbals), gongs, bells and conch. The devotees sing devotional songs and dance. The offerings of barti (short sticks having cotton fibre wrapping around, soaked in ghee), flowers and fruits are made by devotees at different places in the locality. In the evening community feasts are arranged in the Mandapas of temples. The Kirtan called 'Khubakisei' is performed by the devotees. In houses a special kind of food is prepared as a 'prasad'. The main Rathayatra is performed in the Govindajee temple. Women wear special dress for the occasion, the light pink coloured 'fanek' and white 'chader'. Man wear white dhoti and kurta. Some old people also wear white 'pagri'.

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Yaoshang-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

Celebrated for five days commencing from the full moon day of Phalguna (february/March), Yaoshang is the premier festival of Manipur. The Thabal Chongba - a kind of Manipuri folk dance, where boys and girls hold hands and sing and dance in a circle, is particularly associated with this festival. Boys and girls and old women collect donations from house to house and the money so collected is spent in a number of parties and feast. Indeed, Yaosang to Manipur is what Durga Puja is to Bengal, Diwali in north India and Bihu to Assam.

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Lai Haraoba-Manipur-www.vishvabhraman.com

Lai Haraoba is a Manipuri festival, and is associated with Meiteis, celebrated to please traditional deities.Celebrated in honour of the sylvan deities known as Umang Lai,the festival represents the worship of traditional deities and ancestors. The festival is in part a recollection of the creation stories played the deities with the first origin of this universe and evolution of the plants and animals through the will of Atiya Shidaba. Translated, Lai Haraoba means "merry making of the Gods."

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