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Yaoshang festival kicks off in Manipur
Nagaland Post | Imphal, Mar 12 ()
The five-day Yaoshang festival, the biggest festival of Manipur, got underway Sunday. Like Holi, Yaoshang begins with colour play besides a host of other activities. The most prominent being sports events and Thabal Chongba (traditional dance).
Traditionally, the festival begins with the symbolic burning of a Yaoshang (a small hut built with bamboo and thatch) in the evening followed by the Naka-theng, during which children go from house to house in the Leikai (locality) to collect money for their Yaoshang festivities like buying colours and other paraphernalia.
However, with sport competitions round the corners in almost all the localities across the valley areas of the sport-crazy state, torch rallies were organized in the morning to mark the kicking off the events. Sacred flames were lighted from temples of deity in their respective localities
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