Tsükhenyie

The TSÜKHENYIE festival is also an important festival for the Chakhesang Tribe. Earlier it was usually celebrated at the end of the 3rd lunar month of March, but now it is being observed on the last week of April or the first week of May. It is a festival that celebrates the culmination of all leisure activities, and a festival for welcoming a new fruitful life and year. Games and sports, music competition is organized among the different age groups after which a feast is also organized among those different age groups.  Different traditional rituals also take place during this festival, like the sacrificial of livestock, Purification of menfolks etc..