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A ROCKET FESTIVAL

English Presentation A Rocket Festival By Naraporn Thunyalukdeechow No.31 Nattaya Tiantiang No.13 Class 5/12 Advisor Miss Jantana Khamanukul Kanchananukroh School Kanchanaburi Province. A ROCKET FESTIVAL. A Rocket Festival.

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A ROCKET FESTIVAL

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  1. English PresentationA Rocket FestivalByNaraporn Thunyalukdeechow No.31Nattaya Tiantiang No.13Class 5/12Advisor Miss Jantana Khamanukul Kanchananukroh SchoolKanchanaburi Province

  2. A ROCKET FESTIVAL

  3. A Rocket Festival ARocket Festival is a merit-making ceremony traditionally practiced throughout much of northeast Thailand and Laos, by numerous villages and municipalities near the beginning of the rainny season. Celebrations typically include preliminary music and dance performances, competitive processions of floats, dancers and musicians on the second day, and culminating on the third day in competitive firings of home-made rockets.

  4. Local participants and sponsors use the occasion to enhance their social prestige, as is customary in traditional Buddhist folk festivals throughout Southeast Asia. See also Gift culture

  5. History Scholars study the centuries old rocket festival tradition today as it may be significant to the history of rocketry in the East, and perhaps also significant in the postcolonial socio-political development of the Southeast Asian nation states. Economically, villages and sponsors bear the costs in many locations in Laos and in northern Isan (Northeast Thailand).

  6. The festivals typically begin at the beginning of the Rainy Season, in the sixth or seventh lunar months. These festivals are presumed to have evolved from pre-Buddhist fertility rites held to celebrate and encourage the coming of the rains, from before the 9th Century discovery of black powder. It may also be said that Lao culture is not lacking in earthy, bawdy themes, with rockets festivals the most sexually oriented and bawdy of the lot.

  7. Coming immediately prior to the planting season, the festivals offer an excellent chance to make merry before the hard work begins; as well as enhancing communal prestige, and attracting and redistributing wealth as in any Gift culture. Anthropology Professor Charles F. Keyes advises, "In recognition of the deep-seated meaning of certain traditions for the peoples of the societies of mainland Southeast Asia,

  8. the rulers of these societies have incorporated some indigenous symbols into the national cultures that they have worked to construct in the postcolonial period. Giving the "Bun Bang Fai or fire rocket festival of Laos" as one example, he adds that it remains "…far more elaborate in the villages than in the cities…."

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