What is the festival like in Thailand? Does Thailand also celebrate Chinese New Year?

I once went to Thailand when I was in Thailand's biggest festival, "Songkran Festival", and I was fortunate enough to participate in this national carnival festival of theirs, which is very touching, so let's talk about the feeling and experience.

"Songkran" is the New Year of Thailand, and it is also better known to the world as "Songkran". In the southwest of our country, there is also the custom of Songkran, the most famous is the Songkran Festival of the Dai people, which also has a certain origin with the Songkran Festival in Thailand. <>

Southeast Asian countries, not only Thailand travel Songkran, Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries also have a grand Songkran Festival, but the most world-famous is Thailand.

The root of the Songkran Festival is that because Southeast Asian countries are close to the equatorial tropics, it is extremely hot in summer, and in April every year, it is the hottest time of the year, so it is set at this season, the whole country is closed, and then the carnival of splashing water to cool down is carried out, and the whole festival lasts for three days. Of course, it varies from place to place, but in some places it lasts for a whole week or even longer. <>

Thailand's Songkran Festival is basically as important to their people as Christmas in Western European and American countries and the Spring Festival in China. In these few days, the more people you are splashed by, the more blessings you will receive, so this is a kind of "goodwill" act of kindness, and you can't be angry when you are splashed.

During the Songkran Festival, basically the whole city is armed, everyone is holding water cannons and buckets, and the streets are full of water splashed everywhere, and there are even many people driving pickup trucks and carrying large buckets of ice water, patrolling people around. Interestingly, there are also some specially carried ice cubes for sale, those huge ice cubes are put into buckets, the water temperature is extremely cold, sprinkled on people, can be called a pleasure. Next to the river, there will be a natural main battlefield, many people hold buckets, standing by the river, as long as someone passes, it is bound to be a bucket of water.

Chinese New Year in Thailand.

The Chinese New Year is not a unique festival in China, and among Asian countries, Vietnam, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia celebrate the Lunar New Year like China and have statutory holidays. In addition, Thailand, the Philippines and Mongolia also have Chinese New Year traditions.

The annual Thai New Year, Songkran, is approaching, and from Songkran on April 13 or Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole of Thailand is enveloped in a joyous atmosphere for three consecutive days. On this occasion, Thais usually celebrate by splashing water on each other, so it is also called Songkran.

Since ancient times, Songkran has been an important celebration of the Thai New Year, symbolizing care, love and close ties with family, society and religion.

The younger ones ask the elders to sprinkle water on their palms to pray for blessings, and then they congratulate each other by accumulating virtue, contributing food to the monks, building sand pagodas, and sprinkling water on each other. Feeling the harmony of society, caring for the public, and preserving the environment contribute to the cleanliness of homes, temples, and buildings.