What are the manners and customs of Thai people?

Thais are accustomed to calling elders they don't know uncle, uncle, aunt, uncle, or grandpa, grandma. They also call each other brother and sister. They have been educated by their families since childhood to respect their parents and elders. The school fosters a culture of respecting teachers and being polite to their senior classmates, and teaches students to honor their teachers as if they were their parents.

On the annual Songkran festival, it is customary to sprinkle holy water blessings to one's respected elders and superiors. On the day of honoring teachers, students are expected to worship and pay homage to their own teachers.

The honoring of elders and teachers is related to the society's promotion of the education of knowledge of kindness and repayment of virtues. Thai people do not have a patriarchal culture, and many families are happier to have a girl than a boy. Thai women have achieved equal status with men in various aspects, such as education and the right to vote and be elected.

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Thailand is the world's largest exporter of rice and natural rubber. Agriculture is Thailand's traditional economic industry, with the country's arable land covering about 41% of the national territory. Agricultural products are one of the main sources of Thailand's foreign exchange earnings.

Thailand's vast sea area, the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea is a unique natural marine fishing grounds, Bangkok, Songkhla, Phuket and other places are important fishing centers and distribution of fishery products. Thailand is one of the major suppliers of fish products to the world market and the third largest marine fishery in Asia after Japan and China.

Thai food is famous for its color and flavor, the first major feature is sour and spicy, Thai chefs like to use a variety of ingredients such as garlic, chili peppers, sour citrus, fish sauce, shrimp paste and other condiments to season, cook a pot of sour, hot and spicy Thai cuisine.

Signature dishes include Tom Yum Goong soup (hot and sour seafood soup), coconut milk chicken soup, curry fish cake, green curry chicken, and goji fruit rice. Fish, shrimp and crab are the specialty of the restaurants, and the famous ones are charcoal grilled crab, charcoal grilled shrimp, pork neck, curry crab and so on.

Source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Thailand