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Essay About Thingyan Festival

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Thingyan Festivals
Festivals, which are rooted in the social and cultural life of the community are very important because they record the patterns of cultural change, bring communities together and broaden cultural horizons. Among numerous kinds of festival taking place all across the world, two water festivals called Thingyan Water Festival of Myanmar and Songkran(Thiland ) Water Festival of Thailand are comparable with several facts in common and their striking differences in the duration of celebration, food tradition and the origins of them.
Even though both festivals define the New Year’s celebrations of splashing or pouring water, the duration of celebration is not the same. Songkran festival takes only three days which are marked as national holidays while Thingyan takes place within 5 days which are included International holidays. Another fact they share together is they take place in the same month, April. Like Thingyan festival, …show more content…

Songkram word is derived from sanskirt which means astrological passages. Dating back to the time when Thai people who lived in Southern China migrated into Thailand, the festival was initially celebrated for the first month of Lunar new year of the calendar based on the farming cycle of their area. Later, it changed into the fifth month of Lunar year because of weather patterns in Thailand. On the other hand, Thingyan originated from the Buddhist version of a Hindu myth. The King of Brahmas, arsi lost a war and was decapitated by the King of Devas, Sakra and Arsi was so powerful that if his decapitated head was to be thrown into the sea, it would dry up immediately whereas, on land, it would scorch the whole land, or if thrown up in the air, it would burst into flames. Thus, Sakra ordered princesses to hold the head, taking turns to hold the head for a year each. Changing hands of the Brama’s head is marked as Thingyan which means

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