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Thingyan, also known as the Myanmar New Year, is a festival that usually occurs in middle of April. Celebrated over a period of four to five days, Thingyan culminates ...
Myanmar New Year: Varies 4 or 5 days Thingyan Eve, Commencing Day to Prime Day, End of Thingyan, Myanmar New Year Day. Note: Date is based on the traditional Burmese calendar. Labour Day: 1 May 1 day Known as Worker's Day in some countries. Full Moon Day of Kason : Varies 1 day
A Rakhine girl pours water at revelers during Myanmar New Year Thingyan Water Festival in Yangon, Myanmar in 2011. Water festivals are vibrant celebrations that occur across the globe, often marking the start of a new year or season. These festivals are deeply rooted in cultural and religious traditions, and they showcase the importance of ...
Thingyan is a time for socializing and bonding with friends and family. Mont Lone Yay Paw is usually shared by groups of individuals who meet to rejoice together. It is also shared and given out along with other snacks or drinks to strangers and passers-by as a good deed, which is also a part of the Burmese tradition.
As most countries and cultures of South and Southeast Asia lie within the Indian cultural sphere, the development of their traditional calendars have been strongly influenced by some form of the Hindu calendar.
Myanmar portal; Thingyan is within the scope of WikiProject Myanmar, a project to improve all Myanmar related articles on Wikipedia. The WikiProject is also a part of the Counteracting systemic bias group on Wikipedia aiming to provide a wider and more detailed coverage on countries and areas of the encyclopedia which are notably less developed than the rest.
Myanmar has the fourth largest Buddhist population in the world, after China, Thailand and Japan with approximately 48 million Buddhists. Adherents are most likely found among the dominant Bamar people, Shan, Rakhine, Mon, Karen, and Chinese who are well integrated into Burmese society.
According to Burmese traditional folklore, every year at the first day of Thingyan (the Burmese new year), Thagyamin visits the earth while being invisible. There, he observes every person: he records the names of good people in a golden book, and writes the names of evildoers in a book made of dog-skin leather.