Question

The Bihu is a harvest dance from _____.
A. Punjab
B. Kerala
C. Manipur
D. Assam

Answer 1

Hint: A harvest festival is an annual event that takes place around the time of a given region's main harvest. Given the climate and crop variations around the world, harvest festivals can be found in various locations at different times.

Complete answer:
Typically, harvest festivals feature feasts, both family and public, with food drawn from crops that come to maturity around the festival time. Two core features of harvest festivals are ample food and freedom from the need to work in the fields:- feeding, merriment, competitions, music and romance are common features of harvest festivals around the world.
Now let's look at the options:-
1. For the people of the Punjab region, Vaisakhi is a harvest festival. The ripening of the rabi harvest is marked in Punjab by Vaisakhi. The Punjabi new year also marks Vaisakhi. So it is an incorrect option.
2. Onam is Kerala's most prevalent festival, Onam is regarded as God's own country's harvest festival. The Onam Carnival lasted for ten days, but the last four days were held as a big celebration. So it is the incorrect option.
3. The Kut festival is Manipur's largest harvest festival. Celebrated by the tribes of Manipur's Kuki-Chin-Mizo clans, Chavang Kut is a festival that is celebrated with so much enthusiasm and joy. So it is the incorrect option.
4. Bihu is Assam's harvest festival, celebrated three times a year. It is primarily a celebration of the seasons' transition. Both young men and women perform the joyful dance, which is marked by brisk dance steps and fast movement of the hands. So it is the correct option.

Hence the correct answer is option D.

Note: Bihu is a celebration of the harvest celebrated to mark the change in the solstice of the Sun. With much fervour and excitement across the nation for its major effect on agriculture and crops, the Sun that enters its transitory period towards the North is celebrated.