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January
Harvestseason
Farmer work verry hard for long time under the sun and rain in the
ricefield. When the harvestseason is over and rice is saved in the barn,
they arrange ceremony calls "tammboon". The word
"tammboon" means give, donate which people give away food to
monk and poor people. The purpose of giving is to bless their family.
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Febuary
Maka
"Maka" means 3:rd month. In lunar calender calls
"Makamass" or " Makabucha jaturongka- sunnibaht".
Makabucha day is the fullmoon day in 3:rd month. The celebration of Makaboocha celebrated
for the first time under King Rama IV time.
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March New
year eve
(The old new year eve)
New year eve ceremony starts the day before fulmoon in the 4:th month
and go on untill the day after fullmoon. The purpose of ceremony is give
oppertunity for people to think about age and the year that is going to go
by. People do fireworks, play drums, ring bells to chase away
the evils. In the old time people help each other clean houses, temple,
public places, waiting for the comming new year.
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April Songkran
Den 13:th April is the begining day, 14:th is middle day (New year eve)
and the 15:th is The New year day. Songkrann is entertain ceremony in
5:th month, the resting period for the farmers. Time for them
to enjoy and have fun before the next work season begin. People pour
water on each other, which symbolize blessing them and wish them good luck
in the comming new year.
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May
Wisakabucha
"Wisakabucha" means 6:th month or calls "wisakamas".
King Rama II started ceremony for the first time in PS 2360. (beginning of
Ratanagosin dynasty), and it went on untills today. In Sukothai period
people arranged ceremony on the fullmoon day in
6:th month. people go to temple and tammboon early in the morning. Houses
were decorated with color lamps, incenses, flowers and light candles
when the night time come.
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June
Before"Kaowpansa"
The 7:th month. Folk mould candles and decorate them very beautiful
and give them away to monks to use in Kaowpansa period, The monks stay
in the temple under rain period. People go in line, some of them
dance , play music, drums and carry candles al the way to the tempel.
Tradition began since begining of Ratanagosin dynasty and continue until
today.
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July
Kaowpansa
Pansa means rain or rain period. Kaowpansa season starts from the first
waning noon (darkmoon) in 8:th month, which is july of every year. In Kaowpasa
give all people up from sin and try to keep their soul clean and do only
good things. Folk go to temple to "Tammboon".
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August Gonjuck
"Gonjuk" is a very old tradition. When children were one month
old,
the parents would shave their hair. The hair called "phomfire".
When hair grew back they would set up theirs hair in the middle of theirs
head for both boys and girls, which symbolized that children were clean
and innocence and adult could give them good advices, be kind to them, and
tough them the good ways. When girls were 11 years old and the boys were 13
years old parents arranged ceremony for them and cut theirs hair or just
let the hair down. It calls "Gonjuk", which means that
they would become adult. (Gon=Shave, juk= the hair that set up in the
middle of the head)
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September
Saht
"Saht" means fall which the leaves fall down. Ceremony begin at
the end of 10:th month. Folk go to temple and tammboon, which people take
special foods with them for example Kaowmatupayaht, Kaowyaku,
Kaowtip, Grayasaht and bananas. People always cook a lot of
Grayasaht and share it with neighbour and someone they know. People celebrate
Saht ceremony because of the joy of the rice on the field is grown, which
rice grain start to grow from rice grasses, and rice grain contain milk.The
food calls "Kaowmatuyaht" ingridence is rice grain that contain
milk inside. It reminds us about religion class that Buddha ate
kaowmatupayaht before he found Nirwana.
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October Thodgrathin
Thodgrathin ceremony started since Sukothai period and it go on untill
today. The period starts from the first darkmoon in 11:th month and
continue to fullmoon night calls "sip ha kamm" in 12:th month.
Thodgratin is entertainment ceremony, folk go to temple
for tammboon and then have fun at the same time. Ceremony celebrated
people when the farmers finsihed the planting of rice saplingller and
they are still small, so the people have time to enjoy themselfs before
harvest
season is comming. People collect and arranges Gratin, which is one kind
of plant that people hang money on it. They take Gratin and money to
tammboon somewhere else, which give people oppertunities to travel and meet
new people and have have fun at the same time.
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Novermber
Loykratong
(fullmoon "15 kamm" 12:th month)
The water level in rivers is high, the weather is good after rain peroid is
over. The people make "Kratong", some sort of container made of
bananasleave and decorate so beautiful with flowers, insences and candles.
After sunset people dress up and takes Kratong with them. They light
candles, insences in kratong and then let them float out with the
water stream. The purpose of this ceremony is , people show theirs respect
to water's goddess and beg for forgivness once a year that they used
water. That perioden is productive period, We have rice in the field and
fish in the rivers, which thailander use to say "Me kaow
nai na mee pra nai hnong", means " there is rice in fields and
there is fish in the rivers ", It means that year is the productive
year.
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December
Truht Leng Kaownoom Buang
Truth = Ceremony, Leng = invite, Kaownoom Buang = a kind of food with
shrimpinside. Invitation to Kaownoom Buang is the ceremony's name. It has
to be in winter when water in rivers sink and there are a lot of shrimps
in there. In the old time, under King Rama IV folk used to say if which
woman could cook Kaownoom Buang, bend Dimsumleave, gamut plum and bend
long betel, and then that woman is worth 10 chung, chung is
unit of money = 800 baht, which means she has every good quality. In that time we
had difference way to count money.
4 salung = 1 baht (25
satang = 1 salung)
4 baht = 1
tammlung (100 satang = 1 baht)
20 tammlung = 1 chung
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