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== Cultural and social importance ==
The Bihu dance takes its name from the [[Bohag Bihu]] festival (also called ''Rangali Bihu''), the national festival of Assam., which celebrates the Assamese New Year. The festival takes place during mid-April and the Bihu dance is meant to celebrate and emulate the seasonal spirit, celebrating fertility and passion.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKXbxn09TGwC&dq=Bihu+assam&pg=PA16|title=Socio-economic Profile of Rural India|last1=Sinha|first1=Ajay Kumar|last2=Chakraborty|first2=Gorky|last3=Bhattacharya|first3=Chandana|last4=Datta|first4=P. S.|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|year=2004|isbn=9788180691454|editor-last=Agnihotri|editor-first=V. K.|volume=
Bihu is performed by groups of young men and women and in earlier times it served principally as a courtship dance. The Bihu dance's association with fertility refers to both human fertility, through the erotic nature of the dance, as well as to the fertility of nature, meaning the celebration of spring and the welcoming of the life-giving spring rain. The use of instruments such as drums and horn-pipes is believed to replicate the sound of rain and thunder, as a way of invoking actual precipitation.<ref name=":0" />
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*[[Culture of Assam]]
*[[Bihu|Bihu festivals]]
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* Other [https://web.archive.org/web/20150518232330/http://www.indianfolkarts.in/ Indian Folk Dances] of Various parts of India.
*[http://www.assamclicks.com/rati-bihu-spring-festival-of-the-morans/ Rati Bihu] : A kind of bihu dance celebrated by People in Assam.
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