The festival is usually called ‘Nlung (Shat) N’nan Sha Poi’ in Kachin language and organizing only for three days with Kachin traditional sports and games cheerfully.

The ceremony held in the Chyinghtawng Pa Kachin Baptist Church compound has been grandly decorating with natural flowers, vegetables and  crops grown in neighboring area.

The Kachin people’s traditional festival of Thanksgiving for new crops ceremony launched in Chyinghtawng Pa village in Sadung Township is more splendid than other ceremonies held in other areas, as said by Dashi Tu Lum who organized the ceremony.

“We launch the traditional festival of Thanksgiving for new crops ceremony yearly. This event is also a Thanksgiving ceremony to the God by all Christians. All things - such as vegetable, crops, fowls, pigs and bullocks - that we’ve obtained this year have been offered ritually to the God in line with the Kachin traditional practice,”   Dashi Tu Lum said.

During this festival, there were competitions of fire-making, bamboo-seed hitting, paddy-pounding, bamboo-post climbing, Kachin traditional dancing, etc. Moreover, there were stage-shows of Kachin songsters in order to make public entertainments.

The Chyinghtawng Pa festival of Thanksgiving for new crops ceremony has been holding for eighteen times continuously, according to Dashi Tu Lum who takes charge of the ceremony. The visitors from Myitkyina, Sadung, Waing-maw and other neighboring areas respectively joined in the ‘Nlung (Shat) N’nan Sha Poi’ festival.

Chyinghtawng Pa village is situated near the border of Sadung and Kan-paik-ti  townships and religiously diverse people live in the village. There are around 110 houses of Christian people in the village.

The festival of Thanksgiving for new crops ceremony is the most significant ceremony launched by the Kachin people. However, after the armed-conflict recurred again in the Kachin region, the Thanksgiving festival could not launch grandly since 2011.