These days, The Thai Songkran Festival is being celebrated everywhere!
The Songkran Festival is the most grand festival of the year in Thailand, marking the beginning of the new year and symbolizing the care, love and bonding with family, society and religion. Songkran is also songkran, which represents the removal of all evil, misfortune and sin and the beginning of the new year with all goodness and purity. Songkran is as lively and festive as China's Spring Festival, when Thais usually celebrate by splashing water on each other, and "Songkran" is also derived from this.
During the Songkran Festival, families gather here to pay tribute to the elders in the family, and the younger ones ask the elders to sprinkle water on the palms of their hands to pray, and then, through the accumulation of virtue, contributing food to monks, piling sand stupas, sprinkling water to congratulate each other, feeling the harmony of society, caring for the public, protecting the environment, etc., it is helpful to the cleanliness of homes, monasteries and buildings.
The significance of the sprinkling of water in the middle of the festival lies in its process of cleansing and purifying—to purge all evil, misfortune and sin, and to start the new year with all goodness and purity. Water in this festival represents a process of purity and cleansing.
(Source: Tourism Authority of Thailand)
Although Thailand has lifted international travel restrictions, unfortunately, this year's Songkran Festival in Thailand is dry! The Thai government allows water-free Songkran celebrations under the "SHA+" health and safety standards, which focus on passing on Thailand's best traditions and cultural practices. So, let's first feel the real appearance of The ThaiLand Songkran Festival through the following live pictures, and appreciate the most grand and lively festival in Thailand through cloud travel!
This group of photos in this article is taken by photographer Cao Jubo in Hua Hin, Thailand, during the Songkran festival scene. Can you feel the festivities across the screen?
This year, the Thai government is celebrating the Songkran Festival, which focuses on passing on Thailand's best traditions and cultural practices, under health and safety standards.
<曼谷地区>"Magical Songkran Festival 2022"
From 9 to 17 April, Thai Tourism Bureau set up 10 famous temples in Bangkok and created a Songkran festival atmosphere to attract people and tourists to participate. IconsiAM in Bangkok also hosts the Icon Songkran Music Festival 2022, which includes a Buddhist bathing ceremony and a sprinkling ceremony for elders
<清迈府地区>"Chiang Mai Songkran 2022"
From April 13th to 15th, the highlights include: 9 temples bathing Buddha ceremony, Northern Thailand commodity food exhibition, various music performances, Lanna cultural activities.
<大城府地区>"2022 Songkran Traditional Music Festival"
Held from April 11 to 21 at the Ayutthaya landmark Paklam Temple, it will be held, including the Bathing Buddha, sand towers, Ayutthaya's unique handicraft exhibition, the display of weaving fish making skills that symbolize good health, the ancient Thai art Kong Opera and The Denan Wan Opera will also take the stage; and from the 13th to the 15th, famous Thai singers and bands will perform wonderfully.
<宋卡府地区>"2022 Songkran Traditional Music Festival"
Held from 11 to 21 April in the ancient city of Songkhla. The ancient Portuguese-style buildings in the ancient city will be illuminated with brilliant lanterns, and there will also be traditional ceremonies such as local food sets, bathing Buddhas, and arranged nora dance performances with southern characteristics of the world intangible cultural heritage. The mermaid mascot "Nong Mila" will promote the Golden Mermaid on Samira Beach, the most highly photographed tourist attraction in Songkhla.
Photo: Cao Jubo
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