What is the Songkran Festival?

Water-splashing Festival, also known as "Buddha Washing Festival" and "Cold River Fever Festival", is a traditional festival of Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, De 'ang, Thai and Southeast Asia. On that day, it was held in Xishuangbanna, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and other places in China.

As well as people from overseas Thai settlements such as Kowloon City, Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province Province, get up early in the morning and bathe in Buddhism. After that, they began to celebrate for a few days. During the period, everyone sprinkled purified water on each other and prayed to wash away the troubles of the past year. Songkran Festival is the New Year of the Dai people, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar and generally lasts for 3 to 7 days.

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The Dai Water Splashing Festival, also known as the "Buddha Bathing Festival", is called "Bimai" (meaning New Year) in Dai language, and is usually held around mid-April of the Gregorian calendar. Dai people in Xishuangbanna and Dehong also call this festival "Shang Han" and "Shang Jian". Both names are derived from Sanskrit, meaning turnover, change and transfer, which means that the sun runs around the zodiac and begins to transition to the New Year. The celebration lasts for three to seven days. The first day is called "Netmold" (meaning death). People think this day is unlucky, so they don't wash their hair, cut their hair or work.

Let's catch the pendulum, race the dragon boat and raise the height. The next day it was called "net brain" (smelly meaning), which was considered unclean. You should take a bath, wash your hair, get a haircut, change clothes, wash Buddha statues and pagodas, hold performances at night, set off fireworks and lanterns, and send away all diseases, disasters, filth and cleanliness in one year to enter the new year. In the Dai calendar, these two days are considered as "empty days", not counting the old year or the new year. The third day is the first day of New Year's Day, which is called "overlord horse" (meaning God, also meaning the beginning of a year).