section_path: Festivals
section_name: Festivals
paragraph_text: Festivals
  
  Two major festivals are the new year festival (Ịgụ Arọ), due around 18 February, the planting season when the king, the Eze Nri in the Nri area, tells the Igbo to go and sow their seed after the next rainfall, and the Harvest festival (Emume Ọnwa-asatọ) in the eighth month.
  
  The Nri-Igbo yearly counting festival known as Ịgụ Arọ marked 10 March 2012 as the beginning of the 1,013th year of the Nri calendar. The festival was delayed due to other events.
  
  Imöka is celebrated on the 20th day of the second month.