Songkran Festival 2022 in Northeastern (Isan) | Thailand 🇹🇭
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เย็นทั่วหล้ามหาสงกรานต์ เมืองพิมาย นครราชสีมา💦
🌷 Model: น้องอาร์ต, น้องเบนต์, น้องอรายา, น้องเวฟ
🌷 Photographer: Dusit Wongwattanakul
🌷 Costume, Makeup and Hairstylist: Imart Arttis
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✦ Songkran (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์) is the Thai New Year's national holiday.
The word "Songkran" comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti: संक्रान्ति literally "astrological passage", meaning transformation or change. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart and with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia, in keeping with the Hindu Calendar and Buddhist calendar.
✦ "Songkran day in Isan" started with waking up before dawn. They all washed and dressed in their best clothes. They prepared an old brass pitcher of water and poured water into it and then a small amount of perfume. First they visited their grandmother and approached her on all fours. Starting with sprinkled water from the pitcher onto her shoulder, receiving a blessing from the old people.
For the rest of the day the children played with the other children of the village, then in the evening all went to the local temple. For this day, the Buddha image had been carried out of the temple and set on a platform under the Bodhi Tree and women from the village poured perfumed water over it. Some of the children lay under the platform as the water was poured so that they could share in the refreshing draught.
✦ “Songkran in Thailand, Traditional Thai New Year Festival” has been included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
“In Thailand, Songkran refers to the sun’s annual passing into the Aries constellation, the first sign of the Zodiac, which marks the traditional start of the new year,” UNESCO said in a statement. “Occurring in mid-April after the rice harvest, it is a time when people reunite with their families and pay their respects to older adults, ancestors, and sacred Buddha images. Pouring water is a significant act during Songkran symbolizing cleansing, reverence, and good fortune.”