The Bizu festival is celebrated by the Chakma people in Bangladesh and India, as the traditional New Year's Day which falls around 12–14 April.
The Bizu festival is celebrated by the Chakma people in Bangladesh and India, as the traditional New Year's Day which falls around 12–14 April.
== Bizhu == Bizhu is a three-day-long festival that commemorates the commencement of a new year for the Chakmas and is their most important festival. Bizhu marks the Chaitra-sankranti, which is the last day of the Bengali calendar, and the festivities span a period of three days starting on the day of the Chaitra-sankranti. It is thought that the festival lasted for a full fortnight in earlier times. Bizhu has close links to the practice of jhum cultivation among the Chakmas and is believed to have originated as a festival to propitiate the earth for a bounteous harvest following the first rains of the agricultural season. In recent years, the festival has lost some of its agrarian linkages and has become a social event for the Chakmas. The rituals associated with Bizhu too have been simplified over time.
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