{"id":150926,"date":"2021-02-20T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=150926"},"modified":"2021-02-20T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:17:00","slug":"chopa-discourages-celebrating-pre-post-nyokum-without-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/chopa-discourages-celebrating-pre-post-nyokum-without-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Chopa discourages celebrating pre\/ post Nyokum without priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, 19 Feb:<\/strong> Arunachal Publisher and Broadcasters Guild (AP&amp;BG) president Chopa Cheda on Friday called for discouraging pre-Nyokum and post-Nyokum celebrations, especially without performing any rituals by priests, and said that &#8220;such practices will misguide the Gen Next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attending a pre-Nyokum festival celebration at the helipad ground near here, Cheda said that the pre-Nyokum celebration is setting a wrong trend to the entire youths of the Nyishi community. However, he also said that, even if celebrated, it should follow the age-old rituals and customs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Celebrating Nyokum in the state without a priest is not exactly how it should be celebrated. Moreover, most of the Nyokum celebrations these days have become business-oriented,&#8221; he said, adding that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">the Central Nyokum Yullo Celebration Committee (CNYCC) and Nyishi Festival Council (NFC) should take initiatives so that no Nyokum is celebrated without a priest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organizations should also check the high price of commodities being sold in the stalls during Nyokum celebration, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cheda also requested the people to avoid the culture of donation for celebrating such festivals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling for preservation of the age-old tradition and culture of the Nyishi tribe, Cheda requested the community members to promote and use original local ornaments instead of those available in Harmutty market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cheda also inaugurated the local food stalls and volleyball matches on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social worker Dobing Sonam, who attended the function as guest of honour, exhorted the people to preserve and promote tribal festivals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Pre-Nyokum Yullo Celebration Committee chairman Kipa Simi informed that this is the second celebration being organized by the committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also informed that cultural events such as football and volleyball and sports activities have also been planned for the extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall-in-charge of the event, Rohit Bagang assured to include priests in the celebrations next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, 19 Feb: Arunachal Publisher and Broadcasters Guild (AP&amp;BG) president Chopa Cheda on Friday called for discouraging pre-Nyokum and post-Nyokum celebrations, especially without performing any rituals by priests, and said that &#8220;such practices will misguide the Gen Next.&#8221; Attending a pre-Nyokum festival celebration at the helipad ground near here, Cheda said that the pre-Nyokum celebration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-150926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}