Does Thailand celebrate the Spring Festival?

Thailand celebrates the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is not unique to China. Among Asian countries, the Lunar New Year holidays in Vietnam, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia are the same as those in China. In addition, Thailand, the Philippines and Mongolia also have the tradition of Spring Festival.

The annual Thai New Year Songkran Festival is coming soon. From April 13 or New Year's Eve, Thailand has been shrouded in a festive atmosphere for three consecutive days. At this moment, Thais usually splash water on each other to celebrate, so it is also called the Water-splashing Festival.

Songkran Festival has been an important festival to celebrate the Thai New Year since ancient times, symbolizing the care, love and close integration of family, society and religion.

Families gather here to pay tribute to their elders. Young people ask their elders to sprinkle water on their palms to pray, and then congratulate them by accumulating virtue, donating food to monks, building sand towers and sprinkling water on each other. Feeling social harmony, caring for the public and protecting the environment are conducive to the cleanliness of homes, temples and buildings.

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Thailand's Spring Festival custom

During the festival, people travel with huge Buddha statues in cars, followed by floats, on which stood the "Goddess Gan Song" in makeup, and groups of young men and women in colorful national costumes, drumming long drums, singing and dancing.

On both sides of the road where the parade passed, good men and women walked along the street, filled with water soaked in scallops and permeated with spices in silver bowls, and sprinkled it on the Buddha statue and the "goddess Gan Song" to pray for a happy New Year and good weather. Then people splash water on each other, wishing their elders a long and healthy life, wishing friends and relatives and unmarried young men and women a happy New Year, and splashing water on each other to express their love.

On the first day of the new year, Thais will put a basin of clear water on the windowsill and doorway, and every family will go to the riverside in the suburbs to take a New Year bath. In order to celebrate the New Year, Thais will hold a large-scale "Elephant Race Conference", which includes: tug-of-war between elephants, elephants jumping up to pick up things, elephants crossing people, elephant football matches, ancient elephant array performances and so on. It's wonderful and touching.

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