Losar Festival

Losar is an Agricultural festival of Monpas tribe of Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh . Generally, the festival is a most important  festival of Mompas tribe and which  are mainly into agricultural and animal husbandry.During the festival the  community get together with friends and relatives and celebrate the ceremonial festival in a pompous manner.

Historically,The Monpas  are belonging to the Mongoloid stock.

Therefore, before the advent of the Losar festival in Tawang people the community synthetically can be seen cleaning their homes and discarding all unused and old items to ward off all evil things from life and escort well ness and prosperity of the family, It is believed that by doing so one can usher in good health, peace and prosperity to the house.

Losar, festival is celebrated for high festive spirit and prepares for merry making and feasting together with friends and relatives and enjoy the preparations for the most awaited festival,

Traditionally, the festivities prayers are offered for prosperity and good health. People hoist religious flags atop their homes and make visits to homes relatives and friends. The holy scriptures are read in every home as part of festival prayer. Lamps with butter are lit in all the houses.

Apparently, the local community   are believer of their tribe’s customs. The tribes perform rites to protect their land from any sort of evil eye and any kind of supernatural attack. The local deity is worshipped for the welfare of the society and the people.

Basically, the festival is a colorful event and the people celebrate this festival with their traditional music and dance. People participate with much faith and fun to make the festival  great  remarkable one.

Eventually,This festival witnesses the local tribal traditions and customs thus, community enjoy  the ceremonial festival with high festive spirit and do a lot of merry making. Feasting with local drinks  and  traditional drinking is organized together with friends and relatives.

Therefore,thus the festival depicts the social-cultural and native living of the Monpas tribe.