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Post Tokhu Emong

  1. At the scratch of the earth’s surface by the priest, as noted above, the scratching of the earth in the form of site leveling had ben permitted. The married couples in the beginning of the year who had been residing in the parents’ house of the wife, can now make site leveling for construction of houses. The couples would than go and settle in the newly constructed houses.
  2. Neighbours and friends having more children were the baby sitters usually for one year, in exchange for jhum cultivation, traced wood, bamboos, thatch for huts, wages for ten or more and in some cases even for local brew.

Throughtout all these periods, people of all age in all Kyong villages wear traditional dresses and costumes according to own entitlement.