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Occasion, Session and Duration Festival>Dharreo>Occasion, Session and Duration Dharreo festival is celebrated as the harvest festival of the Tangkhul. This festival is celebrated only in and around Humpum village. This festival is gaining wide importance; many people from different places and even outside Manipur take part in Dharreo festival celebrations. Dharreo is a pre-harvest festival ‘dhar’ means ‘new’ and ‘reo’ means ‘cut’ or ‘pluck’. Therefore, dhareo means plucking of the new crop. Dharreo is celebrated in the month of Tataraha (October). Dharreo is a festival specially celebrated for one day, in which the village chief goes to the field one day ahead of the people and bring a basketful of paddy and rites and ceremonies. On this day, the first crops, fishes, livestock’s and other items are brought out for sale in the village market. Dharreo festival is well known for hornet and bake bread with sticky rice called "mangatai". The whole activity of Dharreo is confine to the exhibition of arts, crafts, lottery, buying and selling.
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