Afterwards, my thoughts went to the manau festivals of the ethnic Kachins. Of the traditional festivals of the Kachin peoples, the manau is the grandest and most significant occasion. Although the type of musical instruments, dance numbers and costumes used in the manau festivals are of the same, the festivals themselves are help for different reasons. There are many kinds of manau festivals according to the reasons of holding the occasions. They are :
Sut Manau, Ju Manau, Padang Manau, Kumran Manau and Shadip Hpaw Manau.
Sut Manau ceremony is held to make donations to old friends and relatives by and to win new friends by a person whose business is prospering.
Ju Manau is held when a family member is seriously ill or after the funeral of an aged person or grandpa or grandpa of a family. The ceremony is held for the members of the bereaved family and relatives to enjoy health, wealth and longevity. Ju Manau is also held by the barren couples, to have a baby to inherit them.
Padang Manau is held to mark the victory in a battle. Offertories are presented to a larger number of gods in the Padang Manau than in other manau festivals.
Kumaran Manau is held when a number of a family, which worships the Madai Nat( Spirit ), settles at a new place or sets up a separate house. It is a festival to convey the Madai Nat ( Spirit ) to the new settlement or the new house.
Shadip Hpaw Manau is held to show the Madai Nat ( Spirit ) the place of new settlement or the house from the native place or “ Uma Ga” , to drive out all evils from the place.
•  Ju Manau is also called Roi Dawng Ye Manau. It is also a ceremony to clear all the leftovers of the funeral rites.
•  After a new settlement is setup, respects are paid to the village spirit, Numshang Hpaw or Namshang Jaw, with offertories. This manau festival is held after the religious ceremony.
•  Shadip is a fine stone which is kept at the place where the sacrificial animal is burued, after the evil is driven away from the new settlement or house.
•  When Shadip is not conveyed together with Madai, the festival is not called Shadip Hpaw Manau. It is called Hpundu Dit Manau. But the Shadip Hpaw Manau and the Hpundu Dit Manau are the same.
In addition to the five above-mentioned manau ceremonies, there are also other manau festivals held occasionally. Some of them are Ninghtan Manau, Htingram Manau and Htinghtang Manua.
Ninghtan Manau is held before going to war. Dancers hold weapons at the ceremony. It is also a festival to enchance nationalistic fervour; recruit new soldiers and declare war on the enemy.
Htingram Manau is held to settle disputes and disagreements between the relatives. It is a ceremony of reconciliation among the relatives. Moreover, marriages are arranged and relatives are indroduced.
Htingtang Manau takes longer days then other manau festivals. If other manau festivals are held for four days, it would take eight days. It takes double the length of others. The ceremony ground “ Naw Ra” is prepared at two places; one is in front and another at the backyard of the house.

Kachin's Marriage (A courteous Custom)
The Kachin traditional marriage system if its original essence is very rigged and seemingly confusing.
Boys and girls, once released from the apron strings of mothers, are encouraged to associate and play only with those of the same gender. In no time some kind of rivalry between the gender groups and mutual contempt against each other unconsciously creep in.
The acerbity generated in the little gangs of age mates of the same gender for those of made a female is so marked that it stretches into the family circle and brother will not mix with his even at meals. Boys are more antagonistic.
The final stage of orientation is done by staging a sorf of open air picnic in the jungle for all the youth and teen-agers of the whole-village. The function is arranged by elders, but to let the young folks enjoy themselves to the fullest possible extent, aged people and parents never take part in the outing. Would enjoy and get peculiarity of life style.