Brief History of SongKran
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2021
- Happy Songkran from the Lexicon family!
In this special video, we give a brief history of the holiday coupled with footage of our pre-Songkran celebrations.
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Songkran is not the official Thai new year anymore.
Thailand songkran(Buddhist version) came from the northern Chaing mai and Lanna. Chaing mai and Lanna were a part of Myanmar for more than 200 years. Until 1964 Songkran was celebrated specifically in Chaing mai and Lanna. Later Thai government made it as a national festival and celebrates it nationwide to attract tourists.
Wow lots of dudes trying to claim possessor of this Dai or Tai ethnic’s cultural tradition, the fact that it’s cultural heritage of Dai or Tai ethnicities throughout Asia for centuries can’t be denied and burmese is not Dai or Tai either, there are also Dai ethnicities in the southern China, Thailand is the major representative of Tai ethnicities.
Songkran festival is a continuation of Holi festival of India. When Indians from state of Orissa first arrive at the shores of Thailand. That's the beginning of Songkran festival. Because Buddhism in India has no such tradition. Later the tradition continued, but the story associated with it changed.
Sankranti arose as a Hindu myth based festival orginated in India and later became a Buddhist festival in the southeast Asia. The chronicle says it was already celebrated in Taguang kingdom( today central Myanmar) in 1AD
The earliest record of celebration is found in Pagan, Myanmar. Thailand songkran(Buddhist version) came from the northern Chaing mai and Lanna. Chaing mai and Lanna were a part of Myanmar for more than 200 years. Until 1964 Songkran was celebrated specifically in Chaing mai and Lanna. Later Thai government made it as a national festival and celebrates it nationwide to attract tourists.
Why is Songkran called the Thai new year, but the chinese new year had to be renamed to Lunar New Year? As Songkran also follows the lunar calendar. Then Songkran should actually also be called a Lunar New Year. Why people only renaming the chinese new year, but not the Thai new year? That's hypocrite......
Thailand used
Chula Sakarat or Chulasakarat (Burmese! ကောဇာသက္ကရာဇ်: koza thakarit). Chulasakarat (Koza) is a Lunisolar calender. The calendar was launched in 640 CE in Sri Ksetra Kingdom (in modern Myanmar) with the epochal year 0 date of 22 March 638. It was largely a recalibration of then prevailing Mahasakaraj or Saka Era. It was later adopted by the Pagan Kingdom.
The use of the calendar appears to have spread southward to the Sukhothai and eastward to Laotian states in the following centuries. The official adoption farther south by the Ayutthaya Kingdom and farther east by Lan Xang came only after King Bayinnaung's conquests of those kingdoms in the 16th century.
Subsequent Siamese kingdoms retained the Burmese calendar as the official calendar under the name of Chula Sakarat (Culasakaraj) until 1889.
Thailand songkran(Buddhist version) came from the northern Chaing mai and Lanna. Chaing mai and Lanna were a part of Myanmar for more than 200 years. Until 1964 Songkran was celebrated specifically in Chaing mai and Lanna. Later Thai government made it as a national festival and celebrates it nationwide to attract tourists.
@@minthura9053 That is not the point. Why Chinese New Year had to be renamed in the West as Lunar New Year, because many asians celebrate that new year, so they change it into a global name. But As Songkran is also celebrated in India, Cambodia, Laos. why it does not need to change it name into a more asian global name? thats hypocrite.