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Chapchar Kut
Mizoram's spring festival, with the bamboo dance and women in the striped puan, the wrapped cloth of the Mizo.
What is worn for Chapchar Kut
Chapchar Kut is the spring festival of the Mizo people, kept in early March after the forest has been cut and the fields cleared for the next crop. It is now usually held on a Friday in early March. Songs, feasting and dances such as cheraw, the bamboo dance, are performed in the capital, Aizawl, and across the state. Women wear the puan, a hand woven wrapped cloth, tied at the waist and worn over a blouse. The festive puan, called puanchei, is bright, in red with black, white and green stripes. Men wear a shawl. The date is set by the state and can move, and the festival is a recent revival of a spring festival that missionaries once discouraged.
Also part of it, and being written: Puan (The Mizo wrapped cloth, striped and woven on the loom.).
Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Chapchar Kut" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.