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The day 12th March,2010 was an occasion to remember for the people Mizoram. On this day, Spring Festival, locally known as "Chapchar Kut" was celebrated as in earlier years. But this year was different and memorable .On this joyous occasion the city danced away to glory to set a new World Record in Bamboo Dance, locally known as "Cheraw"when 10,736 people danced the dance together at a time. It is reported that this feat has broken the record set at Cebu in the Phillipines where 7,700 people danced together. Here is a report and glimpses of the occasion captured at random.(posted on 13th March,2010 morning)
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Photographer ; Lalchhanhima Zote
The village of Aibawk, shown in the aerial photograph, is located in Mizoram, a northeastern state of India known for its mountainous terrain and vibrant culture, which is characterized by beautiful hills, mountains and scattered houses.
The photographer, Lalchhanhima Zote , who belongs to the Hmar community, an ethnic group in northeastern India, captures the rural, non-urban, tourist and wildlife photographs of the region that often dominate.
Beautiful places in Mizoram, as he pointed out, attracted a lot of attention for its natural landscapes, and Aizawl, the city, was featured in the related web results in its hilltop city scene, giving context to the photographer of the region.
#northeastindiana #aibawkAibawk, Aizawl, Mizoram india
Photographer ; Lalchhanhima Zote
The village of Aibawk, shown in the aerial photograph, is located in Mizoram, a northeastern state of India known for its mountainous terrain and vibrant culture, which is characterized by beautiful hills, mountains and scattered houses.
The photographer, Lalchhanhima Zote Hmar, who belongs to the Hmar community, an ethnic group in northeastern India, captures the rural, non-urban, tourist and wildlife photographs of the region that often dominate.
Beautiful places in Mizoram, as he pointed out, attracted a lot of attention for its natural landscapes, and Aizawl, the city, was featured in the related web results in its hilltop city scene, giving context to the photographer of the region.
#northeastindiana #aibawk
Aizawl, March 12 Nearly 11,000 tribal boys and girls in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram danced their way into the Guinness Book of World Records by setting a record of the largest dance ensemble in the world.
A new Guinness world record was created with 10,780 dancers performing the bamboo dance for eight minutes in perfect rhythm,” a representative of the Guinness Book of World Records, Lucia Sinigagliesi, announced after the event.
“About 671 troupes comprising 10,736 dancers participated in the mass dance congregation at the Assam Rifles ground and its outskirts in the heart of the capital Aizawl city to demonstrate the world’s largest and longest dance ensemble,” Jim K. Chozah, Mizoram information and public relations director.
The bamboo dance locally known as the Cheraw dance is the harbinger of the Chapchar Kut festival of the Mizos, which marks the end of winter and the advent of summer.
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On the 20th February 1987, Mizoram became the 23rd state of India. Sharing borders with Tripura, Assam, Manipur, Bangladesh and Myanmar, it’s capital, Aizawl, rises from dense jungle floor to rest high on a mountainous ridge 1132metres above sea level.
The Mizos are an ethnic group of people, native to North East India, Myanmar and Eastern Bangladesh. The origin of the Mizos, like those of many other tribes in the North Eastern India, is shrouded in mystery. Originally known as Lushai, the generally accepted view is that they are of Mongol descent and were part of a great wave of migration from China to India in the 18th and 19th C.
I’d travelled for seven hours over treacherous roads to witness Chapchar Kut 2010. The annual festival of “Chapchar Kut” occurs every March, to celebrate the oncoming spring season. Farmers cut the bamboo forests in a slash and burn agricultural technique known as jhum. Chapchar is the time in which they wait for the chopped bamboo heaps to dry under the sun before being burned. Kut, simply means festival. This year’s Chapchar kut was to be extra special. The young people of Mizoram were attempting to set a new world record for dancing the “Cheraw” (bamboo pole dancing).
The parade ground of the Assam Rifles was packed when I got there and I was welcomed like a long lost son of Mizoram. Despite it being a “dry” state, I was stopped by an old tribal warrior and offered the local rice wine. It’d have been rude not to accept but I really wish I hadn’t. My throat felt like it was on fire and I was required to sip it out of some dead animal’s horn. Mind you, the reaction on my face had the locals howling with laughter!
I can be a bit cynical of the whole world record business and I really should try and reign in my natural instincts. These people are deadly serious! I tend to forget that, unlike some elements in Western culture, these people cherish their customs and traditions. They act as a community strengthening and bonding device. And it seems to work. Young and old alike were enjoying the party atmosphere.
After three rehearsals we were treated to tiffin. Not only do they entertain us, they feed us too! The arena was cleared of non-participants and the record attempt began. It was a most impressive countdown with everyone taking part. ”Three… two…one …” the music started and the dance began.
Men, sit face to face on the ground, tapping long pairs of horizontal and cross bamboo poles open and closed in time to rhythmic beats. Girls in colourful Mizo costumes dance in and out between the beats of the bamboo poles.
Over 10,000 young people danced, creating over 670 sets of Cheraw. So many took part, they danced up Aizawl’s main street, for once devoid of traffic. People sang, flags waved, hands clapped and the smiles…Oh, those glorious smiles from the young people! The assembled masses were having fun! Simple, honest to goodness fun. Not a PSP, I-Phone or Mp3 player in sight! It was a joy to witness.
The actual dance lasted for the best part of ten minutes. How they managed to dance in all that heat still amazes me. Some young girls succumbed to the heat and had to be led away to recover. But their efforts were not in vain and, with great ceremony, the result was announced. The young Mizo people had indeed set a new world record for dancing the Cheraw! The atmosphere was euphoric! The crowd cheered as one and from somewhere the ceremonial guns appeared blasting their celebratory shots into the blue, blue sky.
I can’t begin to wonder how Chapchar Kut 2011 will top that. But I am sure of one thing. Whilst some people in this crazy world seem keen to dismiss the past as an irrelevance, the people of Mizoram and especially the young people, will continue to uphold their traditions. Celebrating their past with gusto, ingenuity and more importantly perhaps, a smile on their faces!
The Mizo people are an ethnic group of people, native to north-eastern India, western Myanmar (Burma) and eastern Bangladesh; who speak Mizo language.
The present Indian state of Mizoram (literally "Mizoland") was called the Lushai Hills and was a district of Assam, before it became a Union Territory and afterwards a full-fledged state. The Lushai people were the first clan to have an external exposure and hence the people are initially known as the Lushai people. The demand for a distinct political territory for the people of Lushai Hills resulted in the creation of a separate Union Territory and afterwards the State of Mizoram. In this struggle, one of the powerful factors was the movement to call themselves Mizo, rather than by distinct clan names such as the Lushai, the Ralte, the Hmar, the Paite, the Mara, and the Pawi. Their languages (of which the largest is Lusei Duhlian dialect) belong to the Tibeto-Burman, and are closely related to those of the Chins in the adjacent Chin State of Myanmar
12th March, 2010, Aizawl, Mizoram, NE India.
Almost 11,000 tribal boys and girls come together to attempt (and succeeded) to break the world record for bamboo pole dancing. However, all was not sweetness and light with this young lady. She looks mighty cheesed off with the other members of the group.
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Aibawk, Aizawl, Mizoram india
Photographer ; Lalchhanhima Zote
The village of Aibawk, shown in the aerial photograph, is located in Mizoram, a northeastern state of India known for its mountainous terrain and vibrant culture, which is characterized by beautiful hills, mountains and scattered houses.
The photographer, Lalchhanhima Zote Hmar, who belongs to the Hmar community, an ethnic group in northeastern India, captures the rural, non-urban, tourist and wildlife photographs of the region that often dominate.
Beautiful places in Mizoram, as he pointed out, attracted a lot of attention for its natural landscapes, and Aizawl, the city, was featured in the related web results in its hilltop city scene, giving context to the photographer of the region.
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Aerial view of Aibawk village | Mizoram
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Photographer 📷 Lalchhanhima Zote Hmar ( Aibawk )
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Mizo girls dressed in one of the traditonal costume, during Chapchar Kut. The most celebrated festival of the Mizo.
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The dancers get ready to try and beat the world record for bamboo pole dancing.
They succeeded with 671 sets taking part and I was interviewed for the telly.
Mizoram is celebrating Chapchar Kut-2010 festival the biggest festival of the state after the Jhumming Cultivation, this year festival is most importance because of the participation of more than 15 thousand artists, picture shows the performance of Cheraw Kanpui one of the most popular dance in the line of Gunnies Book of world record at Aizawl on March 11, 2010.
This spot is at Rulchawm village and is a few yards away from the pit where the Kawilam clan were said to have kept and fed a python. The clump of earth behind the tablet was said to be the footmarks, formed due to constant dancing in celebration of Chapchar Kut./festival.The celebration went on, oblivious of time, till a parakeet overflying dropped an ear of a paddy which made them realised that it was harvest time.This woke them up and dispersed.
Accompanied by two friends, came to this place for the first time on 19/08/2003 from Assam on the trail of our roots.Legend had it that it was the Biate clan who kept and fed "the great serpent". Lt.Col J.Shakespear( locally known asTarmita), the first Superintendent of Lushai Hills in his books "The Lushei Kuki Clans", published in 1912, also said so. We were naturally surprised and puzzled to learn that it was the Kawilams who kept the serpent. Who then are the
Kawilams ? Are they our lost kinsmen ? Revisited again on 25th April,2008 on way to Champhai, en route Rih Dil, and the above image was framed on this occasion.
Aibawk, Aizawl, Mizoram india
Photographer ; Lalchhanhima Zote
The village of Aibawk, shown in the aerial photograph, is located in Mizoram, a northeastern state of India known for its mountainous terrain and vibrant culture, which is characterized by beautiful hills, mountains and scattered houses.
The photographer, Lalchhanhima Zote , who belongs to the Hmar community, an ethnic group in northeastern India, captures the rural, non-urban, tourist and wildlife photographs of the region that often dominate.
Beautiful places in Mizoram, as he pointed out, attracted a lot of attention for its natural landscapes, and Aizawl, the city, was featured in the related web results in its hilltop city scene, giving context to the photographer of the region.
#northeastindiana #aibawk
Aibawk, Aizawl, Mizoram india
Photographer ; Lalchhanhima Zote
The village of Aibawk, shown in the aerial photograph, is located in Mizoram, a northeastern state of India known for its mountainous terrain and vibrant culture, which is characterized by beautiful hills, mountains and scattered houses.
The photographer, Lalchhanhima Zote , who belongs to the Hmar community, an ethnic group in northeastern India, captures the rural, non-urban, tourist and wildlife photographs of the region that often dominate.
Beautiful places in Mizoram, as he pointed out, attracted a lot of attention for its natural landscapes, and Aizawl, the city, was featured in the related web results in its hilltop city scene, giving context to the photographer of the region.
#northeastindiana #aibawk #aibawklocation #aibawkmap #aibawkvillage #aibawkkhua
Aibawk village, Aizawl, Mizoram india
Photographer ; Lalchhanhima Zote Hmar.
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These young people are from the Mizo tribe and live in Mizoram NE India. They were taking part in "Chapchar Kut" 2010 and attempting to break the world record for performing the "Cheraw" The cheraw is better known to western audiences as bamboo pole dancing. The heat was incredible and they're shown here having a well deserved ice pop.
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This spot is at Rulchawm village and is a few yards away from the pit where the Kawilam clan were said to have kept and fed a python. The clump of earth behind the tablet was said to have formed from the footmarks of continuous dancing in celebration Chapchar Kut./festival.The celebration went on, oblivious of time, till a parakeet overflying dropped an ear of a paddy which made them realized that it was harvest time.This woke them up and dispersed.
This lady was performing at Chapchar Kut 2010, Aizawl, Mizoram, NE India. I was there to witness the Mizo's attempt to break the world record for the "Cheraw" or bamboo pole dancing. You'll be familiar with bamboo pole dancing if you ever saw "The Generation game" on British tv way back. The lads were on the groud rhythmically beating the bamboo poles together whilst the girls, bare footed, danced in and out of the wood. Over 10,000 young Mizo's took part and I was even interviewed on NE Indian TV about it all.
I was fortunate enough to be in Mizoram for Chapchar Kut 2010. The tribal people came from all over the state to take part in the Cheraw which took place at the Assam rifles ground and along the main street in Aizawl city.
mizomanipurchoirs.org/pages/Cheraw_World_Record.html
Mizoram is celebrating Chapchar Kut-2010 festival the biggest festival of the state after the Jhumming Cultivation, this year festival is most importance because of the participation of more than 15 thousand artists, picture shows the performance of Cheraw Kanpui one of the most popular dance in the line of Gunnies Book of world record at Aizawl on March 11, 2010.