Passing the mountains

Passing the mountains

Let's come April. The weather has started to tell. New year's preparation has begun. Bengali New Year will be celebrated alongside the traditional passing of the mountain festival. New Year Celebrations of the hill, there are some differences. April just a social festival of the Bengalis. The social and religious festivals is the passing of the hill people.

Last year, at the invitation of a friend Abhijit joined Tanchanga Festival passing. The experience was unprecedented. Bandarban in the morning when the bus stopped, the city still has not fully awake. After reading many of the more secluded in a row in the crowded bus. I like the mountains, this town tourists quantities. I went straight up to the hotel to have breakfast in the market. For example, if the food is not available if a little late. Hotel amirabade cowherds udarapurti got the legs nehari hotel. Noon till now there is no work, so I decided to roll out klantita night.

Betrayed 'since noon met. Tagara smiling young man looks at me, "Hey brother, met after a long time," he hugged his chest. I said, 'I want to be lunch in the mountains. He took us to one of the Hill restaurant Madhyapara. A white hand-written menu board. From there, we took orders for four meals. Chicken chutney, roast ox, oyster curry, ginger flowers small fish, bandaragula (a kind of vegetable) with shrimp, toja, bamsakurulera vegetables, another one or two terms. After eating so much it was difficult to move. Spent the afternoon chatting with tea.

However, at the end of the afternoon. There has been fair. However, there is no diversity in the fair. Now the fair face of all the same. However, their hand-woven fabric made of bamboo clothing and saw things. Another small field next to the field, as opposed to the king's house, and the water running game concert. When I went there was a song in the Marma language. Though language is not understood at the modern musical instruments, songs in their language, they are modernized. Teenagers are running and water bottles filled with water, and picakarite chitacche. One of the special attractions of the water passing game.

Evening night. The crowd began to move beyond the talk of the fair. We'll go at night betrayed 'since reisa laws. The ceremony will be held throughout the night. Since the events of the night, so I decided to leave a little more at night. After lunch at a great feast just did not eat rice, so it went to a mountain food stores. A sister sitting smiling. We took mundi, laksu (chicken sauce) and the kebab teacher. By the end of the episode went to air a new bridge to eat a meal. We went around 10pm reisa made by two motorbike. Darkness around the winding mountain road yesterday bike headlights looked strange. Reisa reaches 11 o'clock at night. So there I am Elahi passing celebration. And why not, I mean Bishu joy, excitement, Bishu dalabemdhe means wandering around. Bijhu means to create a bond of brotherhood, sharing happiness and sorrow, above all, means bijhu platform.

Here's a good idea to say a few words about the festival. Chakma language bijhu passing festival, baisuka in Tripura, Marma language Shangrai, in Rakhine sangre, tancangyadera in ahamiyadera in Bishu and is called Bihu. The festival's name with the initials of the three communities of life, so this festival is called 'passing' festival.

Bengali New Year on the first day of the year and the last two days, three days, passing away in the mountains. On the first day the flower bijhu Chakma language, in this day and courtyard houses are clean and decorated with flowers flowers floating in the river and the mountains, scratched or dirt on the old year and welcome the new year was forgotten.

The second day of the bijhu. On this day, each meal is made fun of the room. Especially the traditional "word of pajana. The food is made with vegetables, at least 0. This pajane that will combine the positions of vegetables, the more its importance.

On the third day, "nuyabajhara 'or' gejya pejya days are called. Dalabemdhe went to the temple on this day of the new year, happiness, peace and prosperity were. This is enough for a meal at home was organized.

The festival was organized on the occasion of the passing game of the mountains. These include ghila play the game, Nader game, Bali, Four game, putti and tumuro game play and climb on the rise as oily bamboo.

Ghila the game, where we were taken. Dalabemdhe is to play this game. The tournament is underway, because some places made with bamboo ring at the same time as the game is underway. I saw a place built on a myth of the local opera.

When the sky is red and has hasahasite chat, did not notice. Phutatei lights came back on leave in Bandarban town.

Bandarabanasaha Rangamati, Khagrachari and Cox colorful festival is passing.