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Typical Mizo food including stable rice, bai, meat and hmarcha rawt. Bai – combination of several herbs cooked with string beans and edible ferns. [4] Rep – smoked meat (fish, chicken, pork or beef) mixed with flavors of chilies, local herbs and fresh leafy greens; Chhum han – mixed steamed vegetables. [5]
Mizo sticky rice or glutionous rice known as buhban is used as the base of the drink. The sticky rice is cooked and fermented in a special dedicated vessel known as zufângbêl after the chawl started is sprinkled over the rice to start fermentation.
The staple food of most of the Mizo people is rice, with meat and vegetables served on the side, ranging from the homely bai, a simple vegetable stew, non veg stew with sesame, garlic, onion and herbs. [36] Zu is also a traditional Mizo rice beer. It was made from husked rice through a distillation process.
Miso (みそ or 味噌) is a traditional Japanese seasoning.It is a thick paste produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and kōji (the fungus Aspergillus oryzae), and sometimes rice, barley, seaweed, or other ingredients.
Earlier, the Mizo community depended on shifting cultivation for livelihood and their main crop was rice. For husking rice the Mizos used wooden mortar and pestle which were called ‘Sum’ and ‘Suk’. During the break of their tiresome rice husking which was done mainly by women the Mizo youngsters used this rice pounding wooden pestle ...
Sakhua (lit. "deity divine force"), also known as Mizo religion, [63] Lushai animism [63] or Khua worship, is a traditional polytheistic ethnic faith practiced by the Mizo people prior to the widespread adoption of Christianity during the British annexation of Mizoram. [64]
The Mizo union would win all three seats to the Assam assembly in the 1952 general election. The following election in the same year saw the Mizo Union win all 3 of the seats in the Assam assembly and 15 districts secured out of 18. [169] The first bill passed by the Mizo Union was the Lushai Hills (Chieftain Abolition) Act, 1952.
Irrigated rice cultivation started in Champhai in the year 1898 encouraged by the British Colonial Authorities to supply rice for their soldiers and laborers. As of 1922, there was only 1 shop in Champhai. [5] On 1 March 1966, the MNF declared unilateral Mizo Independence and attacked Assam Rifles post at Champhai. [6]