THAILAND 🇹🇭 | The History of Loy Krathong Festival!🧡

ประวัติ ประเพณีลอยกระทงไทย 📷 CREDIT: ASIAN SEA STORY

The Festival of Light was the Culture of Asia a long time ago. Every country in Asia has a unique of this Festival and Thailand has unique too, Loy Krathong is a Thai 🇹🇭 festival in November each year celebrated throughout the kingdom since the Sukhothai period as well as nearby countries or states with Tai culture such as Laos 🇱🇦 , Shan/Mon/Burmese/Tanintharyi 🇲🇲, Kelantan/Kedah 🇲🇾 and Xishuangbanna 🇨🇳 with different names and Styles.

In Ayutthaya Period, Loy Krathong festival was mentioned in book in the sixth chapter of part two called Concerning the Shows, and other Diverſion of the Siameſes: Religious Shows: An Illumination on the Waters, and another on the Land, and in the Palace by Simon de la Loubère led an France embassy to Siam (modern Thailand) in 1687 (the "La Loubère-Céberet mission").
Loy Krathong Festival or the Festival of Light in Thailand Today based on the Culture and Beliefs by Thai Ancientors, Such as the Literature of Lady Noppamas, Buddhism, Goddess of Water, Long time ago. Loy Krathong is a time to forgive, forget, and literally launch fresh hopes into the universe.

What is the Literature of Lady Noppamas and Buddhism in the Loy Krathong Festival?

Lady Noppamas or Nang Noppamas, a beautiful woman thought to have lived during the Sukhothai-era around the 14th century. In a successful attempt to attract King Ramkamhaeng's attention, she crafted a lotus-shaped offering with a candle and intricate fruit carvings, among other colorful bits, and floated it downriver. Hence the Krathong was born. As the story goes, the devoutly Buddhist king was so captivated that he established a holiday to honor the Buddha on a night when rivers and canals swell, and moonlight blankets the sky.

What is the Goddess of Water in the Loy Krathong Festival?
Many Thais use the Krathong to thank the Goddess of Water, the Hindu Goddess Ganga (river in Northern India), Phra Mae Khongkha (Thai: พระแม่คงคา) in Loy Krathong Day.

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