Songkran
Today is the traditional Thai New Year, สงกรานต์ or Songkran. Songkran means 'move' or 'change place' in the Thai language.
While Thailand now uses the Gregorian Calender like most of the world, the Songkran festival is still traditionally celebrated.
The holiday is celebrated with lots of water as people believe that water washes away bad luck. Water is thown by people carrying bowls of it, and the use of water guns and even garden hoses to drench each other and 'innocent' passersby. It is also known as the 'Water Festival'.
Of course this time of the year is around the vernal equinox (when night and day are about equal), which is also the hottest time of the year in Thailand.
In Australia, there was one event marking celebrations in Sydney on 4 April this year. It is a shame it is not celebrated more widely as it sounds like a lot of fun (but not for us cats who prefer to remain dry).
www.songkran.net
My humans always enjoy their visits to Thailand. They show me interesting things that they bring back such as handicrafts made of silk, bamboo and metals.
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Thankfully today was Wednesday and I am back on chicken wings.
This morning, all these big black birds flew really close to the latticework of my deck. I think they were currawongs and they must have discovered the caterpillars or the berries from the Virginia creeper which is turning really cool shades of purple and red. Anyway, I stared at the birds until they flew away.
keisercat@wildmail.com
While Thailand now uses the Gregorian Calender like most of the world, the Songkran festival is still traditionally celebrated.
The holiday is celebrated with lots of water as people believe that water washes away bad luck. Water is thown by people carrying bowls of it, and the use of water guns and even garden hoses to drench each other and 'innocent' passersby. It is also known as the 'Water Festival'.
Of course this time of the year is around the vernal equinox (when night and day are about equal), which is also the hottest time of the year in Thailand.
In Australia, there was one event marking celebrations in Sydney on 4 April this year. It is a shame it is not celebrated more widely as it sounds like a lot of fun (but not for us cats who prefer to remain dry).
www.songkran.net
My humans always enjoy their visits to Thailand. They show me interesting things that they bring back such as handicrafts made of silk, bamboo and metals.
........ooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooo........
Thankfully today was Wednesday and I am back on chicken wings.
This morning, all these big black birds flew really close to the latticework of my deck. I think they were currawongs and they must have discovered the caterpillars or the berries from the Virginia creeper which is turning really cool shades of purple and red. Anyway, I stared at the birds until they flew away.
keisercat@wildmail.com
posted by Keiser at 21:38
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