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This year too, in Dharche Rural Municipality-4 Laprak, 'maize marriage' has been done before sowing in the fields. On Friday, the villagers gathered and married the corn.
In Laprak, there has been a practice of not sowing corn without marrying the corn. Preparations for the wedding of corn in Laprak started on Thursday evening. According to Sait, Vis Bahadur Gurung, a resident of Laprak, said that after the cobs of corn were buried under the ground on Thursday evening and taken out on Friday morning, the marriage of corn started. "Warna starts after burying the ears of corn, there is a tradition of not moving the dhikki-janto throughout the village," he said.
Villagers gathered together with Bajagaja and went to Janti from the old village of Laprak to a place called Pora. The locals who went to Janti also circumambulated the village. According to (astrology), there is a practice of burying corn, taking it out, playing instruments, and going to the public on the day of mourning.
Gurung said that Makai's marriage was completed on Friday evening after Ghatu dance. Villagers gather corn for the corn wedding. They take the corn collected from every house as food and prasad. The said corn is mixed with the sifted and seeded corn.
"The marriage was completed after the harvest, now corn sowing will start from 12/13," he said. Locals believe that the crop will be better when corn is married in this way. "This is our confidence, after weeding corn in this way, locusts will not attack, the crop will be good," he said.
