Across Manipur Liangmai Naga celebrates Chaga Ngee festival
Across Manipur Liangmai Naga celebrates Chaga Ngee festival
Imphal: Liangmai people in Manipur state and elsewhere celebrated Chaga Ngee today. It is one of the most important festivals of the Liangmai tribe. Chaga Ngee is a festival of “sanctification, purification, blessing, thanksgiving”.
The festival features cultural dances, cultural songs and traditional Liangmai games followed by a sumptuous feast. This festival is the most anticipated for Liangmai people.
Liangmai people from all walks of life engage in a day-long jamboree of cultural extravaganzas on this day.
Liangmai people gather in bonhomie to revel in cultivating their roots. Every year on Chaga Ngee Day, the people of Liangmai also come together in the spirit of brotherhood at various festival sites.
In line with this modern age, Chaga Ngee is decorated with festivities and fanfare in most cases showcasing tradition and culture in a modern context.
Looking at the festival from this angle, it is a link between ancestral roots and modernity.
On this day every year, the people of Liangmai do their best to reconnect with their roots despite the maddening journey with the tides of a fast-moving world.
Today at the Tamei headquarters in Tamenglong District, the Liangmai people of the area celebrated a festival where many cultural items were displayed.
Makui village also celebrated the festival in the main village square.
The event was hosted by the Makui Village Authority and Kawikin Group and included various activities including cultural dances and traditional games.
Liangmai people in Imphal celebrated the festival in Dewlahland, Imphal. The event was organized by Liangmai Senior Citizen Farm, Imphal.
On this occasion, people come to celebrate the festival in Liangmai costumes.
The youth of Liangmai performed a bonfire or Chami Malapbo, followed by the lighting of a festive torch.
One of the topics of the fair was an essay writing competition on the topic of “Chaga Ngee and its Importance”. At the end of the program, the participants shared chaga taduam (Chaga Ngee food).
