CNI News
17 December 2025
Offering of Kauk Oo alms food (alms food made from first crop of paddy) to Sangha and Buddha regarding the entire Uru Creek region, which is a Shanni traditional event, and the festival to mark New Year are being held in Htaingon Village, Homalin Township, upper Sagaing Region from 16th to 18th December, 2025.
The traditional ceremony of eating the first crop was collectively held by the 19 village tracts including Htaingon.
The Shanni ethnic people are concentrated in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region and Kachin State. After Myanmar gained independence on January 4, 1948, Shanni territories were divided into two parts, resulting in the loss of unity as a single, cohesive region.
Since then, the Shanni ethnic people have been a group that has been calling for the establishment of a Shanni State.
