Located on the high hills of North Eastern corner, Mizoram is an epitome of natural beauty with its eternal assortment of landscape, hilly terrains, meandering streams deep gorges, rich wealth of flora and fauna. Nearby to Bangladesh on the west and Myanmar on the east and south, Mizoram has got an important tactical position and have a long international boundary of 722 Kms. Mizos are well known for their friendliness and are a close-knit society with no class division and no prejudice on grounds of sex. The whole society is knitted together by an atypical code of ethics 'Tlawmngaihna' an untranslatable term meaning on the part of everyone to be hospitable kind, unselfish and caring to others.
The Land :
Mizoram is a mountainous region …show more content…
Previous to the when British moved into the hills, for all realistic purposes the village and the clan formed units of Mizo society. The Mizo code of ethics or Dharma moved around ‘Tlawmngaihna”, an untranslatable term meaning on the part of everybody to be hospitable, kind, selfless and caring to others. Tlawmngaihna to Mizo means the influential moral code which finds expression in self-sacrifice for the service of the others. The Mizos have been charmed to their new-found faith of Christianity with so much devotion and obedience that their whole social life and thought-process been altered and guided by the Christian Church Organisation and their sense of values have gone through radical change. The Mizos area close-knit society with no class distinction and no discrimination on grounds of sex. Ninety percent of them are cultivators and the villages are like a big family. Birth of a child, marriage in the village and death of a person in the village or a community feast arranged by a member of the village are vital occasions in which the entire village is …show more content…
They cut down the jungle, burn the trunks and leaves and cultivate the land. All their other activities rotate around the jhum operations and their festivals are all linked with such agriculture operations.
Mim Kut is a festival which takes place in August-September while harvesting the maize crop and is celebrated with great joviality and merry making expressed via singing, dancing, feasting and drinking of homemade rice beer zu. Devoted to the memory of their dead relatives, the festival is underlined by a fortitude of thanksgiving and honor of the year’s first harvest is placed as an offering on a raised platform built to the memory of the dead.
Pawl Kut is Harvest Festival which is celebrated from December to January. Yet again, the mood of thanksgiving is prominent, because the complex work of titling and harvesting is complete. Community feasts takes place and dances are performed. Mothers with their children sit on memorial platform and feed one another. This custom, which is also performed during Chapchar Kut, is known as 'Chawnghnawt'. Drinking of zu is also part of the festival. The two-day is followed by a day of total rest people don’t go for
The Land :
Mizoram is a mountainous region …show more content…
Previous to the when British moved into the hills, for all realistic purposes the village and the clan formed units of Mizo society. The Mizo code of ethics or Dharma moved around ‘Tlawmngaihna”, an untranslatable term meaning on the part of everybody to be hospitable, kind, selfless and caring to others. Tlawmngaihna to Mizo means the influential moral code which finds expression in self-sacrifice for the service of the others. The Mizos have been charmed to their new-found faith of Christianity with so much devotion and obedience that their whole social life and thought-process been altered and guided by the Christian Church Organisation and their sense of values have gone through radical change. The Mizos area close-knit society with no class distinction and no discrimination on grounds of sex. Ninety percent of them are cultivators and the villages are like a big family. Birth of a child, marriage in the village and death of a person in the village or a community feast arranged by a member of the village are vital occasions in which the entire village is …show more content…
They cut down the jungle, burn the trunks and leaves and cultivate the land. All their other activities rotate around the jhum operations and their festivals are all linked with such agriculture operations.
Mim Kut is a festival which takes place in August-September while harvesting the maize crop and is celebrated with great joviality and merry making expressed via singing, dancing, feasting and drinking of homemade rice beer zu. Devoted to the memory of their dead relatives, the festival is underlined by a fortitude of thanksgiving and honor of the year’s first harvest is placed as an offering on a raised platform built to the memory of the dead.
Pawl Kut is Harvest Festival which is celebrated from December to January. Yet again, the mood of thanksgiving is prominent, because the complex work of titling and harvesting is complete. Community feasts takes place and dances are performed. Mothers with their children sit on memorial platform and feed one another. This custom, which is also performed during Chapchar Kut, is known as 'Chawnghnawt'. Drinking of zu is also part of the festival. The two-day is followed by a day of total rest people don’t go for