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Bohag Bihu or Rongali Bihu festival continues for seven days. They are known as .. Goru Bihu ( Cow Bihu ), Manuh Bihu, Hat Bihu, Senehi Bihu, Maiki Bihu, Rongali Bihu and Sera Bihu. Actually first day for to pay respect to cows and other days for social activities.
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Bohag and Bihu
* Assamese New Year ( Rongali Bihu or Bohag Bihu ) is celebrated on 14 – 15 April in the Indian state of Assam.
The most important and colourful of the three Bihu festival is the Spring festival " Bohag Bihu " or Rongali Bihu celebrated in the middle of April.
Rongali Bihu ( mid-April, also called Bohag Bihu ), the most popular Bihu celebrates the onset of the Assamese New Year ( around April 15 ) and the coming of Spring.
The folk songs associated with the Bohag Bihu are called Bihugeets or Bihu songs.
In Assam, dhol is widely used in Rongali Bihu ( Bohag Bihu ), the most beloved festival of the Assamese people.
In Assam, the festival is called Bohag Bihu, and the community organizes massive feasts, music, and dancing.
Bohag and .
The stage form of bihu has become so popular, that organizers have begun extending the celebrations to bohagi bidai, or farewell to the Bohag month, which are similar performances held a month later.
In mid April, along with the onset of spring, falls the new year in the local calendar with the month of Bohag.
At the end of the month of Bohag there is also the farewell to the month commemorated by numerous Bohagi Bidai functions.
Bihu and Rongali
** Assamese New Year, or Rongali Bihu ( India's Assam Valley )
In Assam, Rongali Bihu draws from many different traditions — Austro-Asiatic, Sino-Burmese and Indo-Aryan — and is celebrated with great fervor.
Rongali Bihu is also a fertility festival, where the bihu dance with its sensuous movements using the hips, arms, etc., by the young women call out to celebrate their fertility.
Bihu and festival
Bihu is the festival of New Year of Assam falling on mid April.
Bihu dances and songs accompanied by traditional drums and wind instruments are essential part of this festival.
In Assam in the northeastern part of India, a harvest festival called Bhogali Bihu is celebrated to mark the end of harvest season in mid-January.
This is also the beginning of the agricultural season. Bihu is celebrated by the all parts of Assam and all cast and religion. Directly we can say that Bihu is secular festival which brings the humanity, peace and brotherhood among the various cast and religion.
; Bihutoli Bihu: The rural festival made its transition to urban life when it was first time brought to the stage in Lataxil field in Guwahati by the Guwahati Bihu Sanmilani in 1962, promoted by leading citizens like Radha Govinda Baruah and others.
Many Bihu associations / committees exist elsewhere where this festival is celebrated with enthusiasm.
Bihu and seven
; Xaat Bihu: Rongali Bihu also called Xaat Bihu ( seven Bihus ).
On the other hand, Rangali Bihu is constitute of seven different types of Bihu-Goru Bihu ( Cow Bihu ), Manuh Bihu, Hat Bihu, Senehi Bihu, Maiki Bihu, Rongali Bihu and Sera Bihu. Actually first day for to pay respect to cows and other days for social activities.
In Assam and other North-eastern states of India, Rongali Bihu is celebrated for seven days from April 13 to 19.
Bihu and days
; Mia Bihu: Now this days Bihu is celebrated by interior and remote Mia areas such as Kalgachia, Moinbari, Mankachar, Jaleswar etc. Mia people has modified this Bihu with their own culture but reality remains same.
Bihu and .
* Bihu an Assamese dance celebrating the arrival of spring, traditionally the beginning of the Assamese New Year.
During Bihu, the husori players are offered areca nuts and betel leaves by each household while their blessings are solicited.
Most of the pithas in Assam are types of pancakes served on occasions such as Bihu.
Bihu (, ) denotes a set of three different cultural festivals of Assam and celebrated by the Assamese diaspora around the world.
Bihu is also used to imply Bihu dance and Bihu folk songs.
The word Bihu is derived from the language of the Dimasa people who have been agrarian since time immemorial.
Hence the word BISHU gradually became Bihu to accommodate linguistic preferences. The other suggestion is that " Bi " means " to ask " and " Hu " means " to give " and so came BIHU.
Like most other Indian festivals, Bihu ( all three ) is associated with farming ; as the traditional Assamese society is predominantly agricultural.
Each Bihu coincides with a distinctive phase in the farming calendar.
Bihu and are
In addition there are two other Bihus: Kongali Bihu in October ( associated with the September equinox ) and Bhogali Bihu in January ( associated with the January solstice ).
In a year there are three Bihu festivals in Assam-in the months of Bohaag ( Baisakh, the middle of April ), Maagh ( the middle of January ), and Kaati ( Kartik, the middle of October ).
; Goru Bihu: The goru bihu or cattle worship rites are observed on the last day of the year.
Pohela Baishakh in Poschim Banga, Rangali Bihu in Assam, Puthandu in Tamil Nadu, Vaishakhi in Punjab are also observed on the same day.
Similar festivals are celebrated in Punjab and Assam, India, In Assam, this day is called Bihu, in Punjab Baisakhi ( originally Vaishakhi ), in Tamil Nadu Tamil Puthandu ( Tamil new year ) or Vishu punyakalam.
Nowadays, during this period, there are Bihu competitions all over the Assam ( as well as throughout the major locations with Assamese diaspora.
Apart from Bihu dance, there are competitions held to select the Bihu Kunwori ( Bihu Princess ) and various singing talents.
Bihu and ),
Bihu to a great extent has been popularized by the Bihu ' Samrat '( king ), of Assam, Khagen Mahanta.
Bihu and Manuh
; Manuh Bihu: The New Year day, the day after the goru bihu, is called the manuh bihu.
Bihu and day
This day is celebrated in Punjab as Lohri and in Assam as Magh Bihu / Bhogali Bihu.
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