Assam's new year opens the sowing season. Goru Bihu, the day before, honors cattle with a bath and garlands; the days that follow bring feasting and the Bihu dance.
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The festival's dance and song traditions, Bihu geet and Bihu naas, are widely believed to carry fertility-rite origins predating organized religion in the region, later folded into the Hindu festival calendar.
Feasting centers on pitha (rice cakes) and jolpan; community Bihu dance performances in open fields draw entire villages, with Goru Bihu the day before honoring cattle with a ritual bath and garlands.