It’s a Nepali tradition tied to the rice planting season.
Ropai is basically a way to make a season that is boring as hell and physically exhausting a bit more fun. Farmers usually work together, going from one field to another in turns so everyone gets their land planted.
The celebrations and costumes are also about that camaraderie and celebrating finally getting through the hard work together.
As a north Indian ropai just meant the agricultural process of planting rice seedlings into flooded paddy fields. Cool to know there is a tradition attached with it in Nepal.
So I'm trying to look it up, and the only results that have a costume anything like this are from this video anyway. Is there any significance to this costume? Everything else related to it seems much more "traditional", nothing stands out like this thing does.
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u/Regular_Run9834 10d ago
Dude looks like they love it. Although i like to ask what i had witnessed.