(Original title: Suddenly! Thailand "Falls"! "Great War Breaks Out"! Completely "Out of Control"! Chinese tourists have gone from Xishuangbanna to the home of the Songkran Festival in Bangkok!)
The 2024 Songkran Festival in Thailand is a return to a long-lost madness and joy.
There is no need for a reason to carnival, there is no need to deliberately celebrate, the people who are roaring and jumping around, even if there are no achievements, achievements and special beauty, the natural joy in everyone's heart will be contagious to each other, ignited by each other, and boiled together...
This is Thailand, where tourists from all over the world gather "people from the crowd", crowds of people, crowds of people, and dense crowds, so that there is no word in the world to describe the "scale and excitement" of the scene....
Thai Prime Minister Saita joined the "Splashing Battlefield"! Thaksin, the old head of Thailand, who once announced that he would "no longer splash water," is also asking everyone today "where is it more cool to be splashed"....
Indeed, "really fragrant".
If you are reading this article, even if you don't go to the scene, you will definitely be "healed" by the scene below and clean up all your troubles.
The splashing carnival continues! Siam Square in the heart of Bangkok - Central World is crowded!
On April 13, Thailand's grandest and grandest traditional festival - Songkran Festival also officially kicked off, and the pomp and circumstance of all parts of Thailand also made the whole festival atmosphere lively. Among them, the most eye-catching water splashing activity is undoubtedly Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
On the 13th, Siam Square, the most prosperous and lively area in the center of Bangkok, was crowded with Thai and foreign tourists who were preparing for a "big war" on the streets, and everyone brought water guns and other tools to greet each other on the streets.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Central World is just as lively, with crowds of people rubbing shoulders.
It is understood that this year's Songkran Songkran water splashing event in Central World will last from April 12th to 21st, and there will be a special stage to invite performers to come and help, including a 12-meter-high giant slide that can be played for free for 2 days on the 13th and 14th.
As for safety, there are staff at each event area to maintain order, while public transport is recommended for high-traffic areas.
Thai Prime Minister Saitha delivers his message on Songkran Day 2024
On April 13, Thai Prime Minister and Finance Minister Saita spoke on Songkran 2024, according to the spokesperson of the Prime Minister's Office of Thailand, Cha Vacharon.
Prime Minister Saitha said, "On the occasion of the traditional Songkran Festival 2024, I would like to extend my best wishes for love, good fortune and happiness to all Thai people, whether they are in Thailand or abroad.
Songkran is a beautiful cultural heritage of Thailand and is a day of happiness and joy when family or community members come together to connect with water and sprinkle water to pray for blessings and make merits.
He further said that the "Thai Songkran Festival" has also been officially inscribed on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage, making it a household name.
The Thai government attaches great importance to the development of various fields such as arts, culture and traditions, and supports the country's creativity or soft power through the promotion of Songkran to drive the country's economy and generate income for the people, with the goal of making Thailand a "Festival Country".
Finally, Saita added that on the occasion of the Songkran traditional festival and the Thai New Year, all people are invited to continue the festival tradition and celebrate the festival creatively and safely, and wish all Thais eternal happiness, warmth, friendship, unity, and a happy Songkran!
Thaksin appeared at a well-known restaurant in Chiang Mai and will go to a water splashing event in the evening
On April 14, former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to his hometown of Chiang Mai on the occasion of Songkran Festival, and went to a well-known restaurant in the city that has been open for 80 years for dinner.
Thai media said that Thaksin warmly greeted the media reporters present after arriving at the restaurant, and revealed that he would go to Doi Suthep today and plan to buy lottery tickets there.
Later, Thaksin and his entourage enjoyed the northern Thai golden noodles and the famous dishes in the store, and allowed the media to take photos, he joked to himself: "What is there to take pictures of 75 years old, everyone likes to look at handsome men and beautiful women, but come to take pictures of an old man." ”
It is understood that after dinner today, Thaksin will go to the splashing point in front of the famous Maya shopping mall in Chiang Mai, which is a popular gathering place for local Thai and foreign youth, and Thaksin will also prepare to take the big stage.
Songkran 2024 Champion: Chinese Tourists!
How crazy are Chinese tourists at this year's Songkran Festival?
First of all, a large number of Chinese tourists were still in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province in the morning "three hundred rounds", learning a "Songkran Festival martial arts" and "tricky formation play", and then everyone entered the country with a passport + air ticket in the afternoon, and began to "clean up" Thais and Europeans and Americans......
However, this is not the end, Chinese tourists continue to "wheel war" at night, crazy, professional, and powerful "crackdown" on all kinds of electronic music festivals, Songkran festivals, indoor parties, and open-air bubble splashing fields.
Everywhere you go, regardless of Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, and the Middle East, Chinese tourists will "do it wildly" when they see people with buckets on their backs, resulting in a "whoa" and "whoa" on the scene!
Therefore, from the perspective of physical strength alone, the Chinese are already invincible in the world in this Thai Songkran Festival, and one person can fight "thousands of troops"...
Secondly, at the Songkran scene, the Chinese are super united!
Silom and Khao San Road and all the "big splashing battlefields" in the city center often appear in Chinese like this:
"Chinese gather! Brothers! Koreans and Thais on the other side are messing with us, asking for support!"
This "cloud-piercing arrow" went down, and the surrounding area immediately responded! "Where! We're coming!"
"Wait! Come on! I'm adding ice and cold water! Then I'm going to make some smoothies and ice, and I'm going to have a thick skin!
"I'm adjusting the caliber of the water gun, and I'm waiting for my family of 8 people to get three water guns per person..."
The result can be imagined, a large group of European and American one-meter-eight foreigners were beaten from the streets of Bangkok to the end of the street, and the 43-degree "water fight" was surrounded by 10 times the Chinese tourists and turned into a "snowball fight".
And just as the Songkran Festival entered the intense stage, as soon as the east and west security checks were released, Chinese tourists immediately chartered a large number of pickup trucks, sprinkler trucks, and off-road vehicles throughout Bangkok to "go straight to the Songkran battlefield".
At the same time, it really made everyone experience what it means to "feel the back of a giant water column".
The "full water" of the Chinese present, crushing the whole audience, followed the rhythm of the electronic music, and directly came to a "artificial hail ice water".
The organizer "God Assist" didn't know the situation at all, and felt that everyone was very hot, so he simply turned on the "big fan", and the scene was full of "pig killing and screaming", which was extremely sour.
The organizer was satisfied and said, "Look! Everyone is so happy!"
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This splashing of water makes the joy more "Sino-Thai" and makes the gathering of people more "international".
Play to play, make trouble, China and Thailand and the world, friendly and happy, blended together, some people on the scene learned foreign languages, and exchanged ten language expressions of "Songkran".
There are also Chinese tourists who have made foreign friends of different colors and countries through a splashing of water, from splashing water to playing in bars, and from Bangkok to Phuket Chiang Mai.
The Sino-Thai family, in this happy carnival that does not need a reason, has been upgraded to a family in the world, containing a strong emotional expression and the shock of exotic resonance.
More and more people present saw the simple release and joy, the microcosm of the world, the ups and downs of the "global distribution", the desire and unwillingness of life and dreams, and the wonder of the meeting in Pingshui, and the tolerance of no one perfect.
In the future, if these memories are in the mind, then every frame of the 2024 splashing celebration will make people who reminisce about it instantly burst into tears.
Who said that the right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life, and who said that one day life will be filled with "internal friction and anxiety"?
At least in Thailand, at least at the moment when the water is splashing and the whole world is celebrating, all the people who participate in the splashing of water are the great warriors in this world, and all the carnivals are breaking the unique and indescribable dullness of this international environment.
Today, Iran and Israel have another accident, Myanmar is still on fire, Russia and Ukraine are still ongoing, and at this time, looking back, those big and small "unpleasantness" seems to go up to many parts of the world, down to individuals...
It feels like it's not easy anywhere, it's not easy for everyone. Those pessimistic but practical questions have always existed in this era of high-speed civilization - "which comes first, tomorrow or the unexpected".
But only Thailand, only the Sino-Thai linkage of Xishuangbanna and Bangkok Songkran Festival, no matter tomorrow or today, are all going all out, so that the beauty and dreams of the world are still burning, so that those nighttime electronic music jubilation can become the witness and companionship of all the stars and the moon.
Let those "sad people" who are busy and bound by the workplace, and who are poisoned by life, be able to restore the joy of singing a song of faith in the mood of "Siamese clean water".
Because of this, the Songkran Festival in 2024 is undoubtedly a touching Songkran Festival.
Because in this world, there are many, many people who are still holding hands and desperately pursuing the beauty of this planet.
Those carnivals that seem to be in the material world are actually constantly knocking on the door outside the house of our hearts, trying to break our "natural life" that is "watered" by this human competition, so that we can always remember that those infinite beauty within us have been let down by us for too long.
So much so that it is difficult for us to have a smile on our faces, and it is difficult to be crazy and happy from the heart.
In 2024, Thailand, Songkran, may a grain of wheat become barley, and may those happy seeds grow vigorously in the hearts of all people, until they reach the towering tree.
Text: Thai Net Cloth Weekly Ten Faces, Thailand Net Editorial Department