![]() Men sitting face to face on the ground tap long pairs of horizontal and cross bamboo staves opening and closing to rhythmic beats. Cheraw is the most popular and colourful dance of the Mizos. On such occasions huge crowd would gather to watch the pride fill performance of Cheraw dance by the few expert / skilled dancers. It was performed at marriage ceremonies and other merry occasions to celebrate success. Formerly, it was not a community dance but a dance performed by a few selected girls with exceptional skills. Some of the tribes living in South East Asia also have similar dances with bamboo staves in one form or the other with different names.Ĭheraw was usually performed on the occasion of Buhzaaih (Bumper harvest by an individual family). It is believed that the dance had existed way back in the 1st Century A.D, when the Mizos were still somewhere in the Yunnan Province of China, before their migration to the Chin Hills in the 13th Century A.D. ![]() Sometimes it is referred to as ‘Bamboo dance’, especially by non-Mizos, who are not familiar with the exact name, because bamboo staves are used for the dance. Cheraw is a very old traditional dance of the Mizos.
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