New Year Water Festival

Marking the end of the dry season songkran is also known as thailand water festival or thai new year.

New year water festival. It is called the water festival by westerners because they notice people splashing or pouring water at one another as part of the cleansing ritual to welcome the new year. The tradition to splash water during the new year celebrations exists in most southeast asian countries. Thingyan water festival which has been celebrated for more than 500 years is a festival deeply rooted in the burmese people s hearts and all of burma s citizens take part in the festivities.

The water festival is the new year s celebrations that take place in southeast asian nations such as cambodia laos myanmar and thailand as well as among the dai people of china. Water throwing or dousing one another from any shape or form of vessel or device that delivers water is the distinguishing feature of this festival and may be done on the first four days of the festival. Traditionally burmese celebrate this holiday on the streets with the fun water fights uniting children and adults.

It is an very important event in the calendar of buddhists and world s biggest water fight takes place during songkran holiday. It celebrates the beginning of a new flourishing rainy season that will bring harvest and lower heat. Songkran is thai new year celebration.

While the water festival is a buddhist event the burmese government has made it a legal public holiday. A very wet festival. Water festival in laos laos new year in april boun pi mai unlike the new year held on the first day of the new year in most of the country lao new year is very special no fireworks or fancy family dinners but rather worship splashing water in street is regarded as a unique laos festival in april.

Songkran is the largest celebration in thailand and is notorious as the wildest water fight in the world. Myanmar water festival also known as thingyan water festival is the most expected celebration of burmese people. The new year takes place at virtually the same time as the new year celebrations of many countries in south asia like china dai people of.

Commonly referred to as the water festival maha thingyan allows people to celebrate the burmese new year. Songkran came from sanskrit which means approaching or passing. Songkran festival nicknamed water festival or water splashing festival is the most famous festival in thailand.