Happy Thai New Year: Songkran Festival
April 13, 2007 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Personal
If you are a Thai, I wish you a very Happy Thai New Year and a very enjoyable Songkran (สงà¸à¸£à¸²à¸™à¸•à¹Œ) Festival - “Sawadee Pee Mai” 
Thailand’s Songkran Festival is by far the most important event of the year for the Thai people. It’s a time of fun and a special time for new year ritual and respect for water, the most important element in the agricultural culture of Southeast Asia.
For Songkran festival, Thai people clean everything, i.e the house, the previous year bad actions, the Buddha statues, one’s own spirit. But nowadays Songkran festival is better known for its splashing water madness … 
Traditionally the ceremony was to pour water into the palms hands in order that bad actions, bad thoughts flow away with the water. It was a way to purify. Children show their respect to elders by performing this water ceremony. Also scented water is poured over the shoulder and slowly down the back of the person. While pouring the water in this manner, people say good wishes and words of blessing for the coming New Year. You can read more by click here
So play water is the way to celebrate the festival, from today onwards untill 15th April, if you are in Thailand, you will see people splasing water everywhere. If you walking on the street, don’t forget those moving water vehicles, be prepared for pickup trucks that filled with splashers going by at every corner.
Sometime this crowd tends to over do it and they don’t quite seem to understand the concept of gravity! That water can be very heavy coming down from above. 
All of this is loads of fun, and as the Thais say, “It’s Sanook-Dee”, but there are cautions involved and one should be aware that accidents do happen during the Songkran Festival. Be aware, be smart, and have fun - “Sanook Maak, Maak”
Okay, after did couple of work, now I am going out to enjoy the crowd and have some fun, wish me the good luck …
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