Culture+and+Festivals

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 Songkran Festival is the traditional Thai New Year celebrated on April 13th. Families and friends gather to celebrate by cleaning their homes, visiting temples, washing Buddha statues and sprinkling (Pouring) water on each other as an act of wishing good luck. They also throw tubs of flour too. It is very common to have water fight. Loy Krathong is a festival after the rice harvest, usually in mid November. Thai people thank the water spirits for the water they gave during the growing season. They make little boats with lighted candles, flowers, incense and coins. They send these afloat in cannels in rivers. Each offering holds a wish. If the candle stays alight then the wish is granted. The royal ploughing ceremony is celebrated before the rice planting in May. A white buffalo decorated with flowers, pulls a red plough in front of the grand palace. Tradition music is played and 4 priestesses carry gold and silver baskets of rice. They scatter this rice onto the white buffalo and on the ground. They offer the buffalo 7 different types of food and drinks. Which ever one the buffalo chooses, predicts the quality of the rice during harvest.