The festival is meant to serve as an invocation to God for wading of bad spirits and diseases and to seek blessings for a good harvest.

[4][5] During this festival, men make a symbolic gesture of driving away the evil spirits and diseases by beating the roofs of house with bamboo poles.

A ritual known as "Cher iung blai" is conducted where in the male tribal members enter a newly built thatched hut of grass and bamboo with spears and kill the demons inside it symbolically.

[3] Another traditional game played is the Iatan-Bhang, a tussle between two opposing groups of people over a large, stripped wooden log over Wah-eit-nar, a muddy trench with the participants smearing mud on one another.

[3][2] The polished logs of wood and bamboo buildings are taken through the neighborhoods and plunged into Aitnar, a central pool of mud on the last day of the festival.