Culture of Sikkim

 

Sikkim Culture

Sikkim is a beautiful land of manifold tribes and races of people living together. All these diverse tribes and communities have their unique features in addition to their particular dance forms, festivals, languages, culture, and craft forms. The miscellany of ethnic groups, religion, and languages .

India, being a seventh-largest country by area is a place of spectacular landscapes, cultures, different types of food and people! Sikkim alone, a very small state in the northeastern parts of India constitutes different variety in all these categories!

◾ Food Culture :-

The food of the people of Sikkim indicates the culture of this state which is a mélange of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. Sikkim food mainly comprises noodles, Gundruk and Sinki soups, thukpas, tomato achar pickle, traditional cottage cheese, fermented soybean, Bamboo shoot, fermented rice product and some other fermented dishes owing to its very cold climate.

According to the climate of Sikkim you can see the variety in there food culture in every part of India you can see the variety in there food cuisine as there is change in climate in many regions of India .

◾ Traditional Dance And Music Culture :-

Mask Dance is the most famous dance of Sikkim and one can say it is almost synonymous to Sikkim. The Mask dance is divided into various types, Enchey Chaam, Rumtek Chaam and Gouthor Chaam. Gouthor (winter) Chaam, is performed two days prior to Losar in the month of February.

This music and folk dances relate to the beauty of the natural surroundings, depicting the harvest season and are performed for good luck and prosperity. Some of the popular music and folk dances are :-

◾Chu Faat Dance

◾Sikmari Dance

◾Singhi Chaam Dance

◾Yak Chaam Dance

◾Tashi Yangku Dance

◾Denzong Gnenha Dance

Sikkim has an exquisite culture which is expressed towards any visitors as well as other people in the form of dances. And the cultural heritage of Sikkim is expressed in its traditional folk dances. There is a number of folk dances that are performed in the many monasteries during their annual celebrations.

◾ Tourism :-

Sikkim is one of the most famous tourist destinations in North East India. Its marvellous landscape is dotted with high altitude lakes, rolling green mountains, colourful rhododendron groves, azure rivers, milky waterfalls, beautiful monasteries and unparalleled views of Mt. Kanchenjunga/Khangchendzonga, the third highest mountain in the world.

◾ Festivals :- 

Sikkim is a state in northeast Asia where numerous festivals are celebrated throughout the year. Majority of the people of Sikkim follow Buddhism so the festival celebrated here are associated with the Buddhist and they are celebrated with a lot of pomp and as per the Buddhist calendar.

Some famous festival of Sikkim :-

◾Saga Dawa

◾Lhabab Dunchen Festival

◾Losar Festival

◾Phang Lhabsol

◾Bumchu Festival

◾Losoong Festival

◾Dasain Festival

◾Tihaar Festival

◾Hee Bermiok Tourism Festival

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