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Celebrating Songkran Festival for Family Unity

Songkran is the Thai New Year celebration lasting for 3 days, symbolizing change and water cleansing bad luck. It promotes family gathering, community unity, and environmental awareness through various traditions. The festival includes pouring scented water onto elders' hands, exchanging gifts, and cleansing public spaces together. It is a time for making merits, offering alms to monks, and fostering a sense of togetherness in society.

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Celebrating Songkran Festival for Family Unity

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  1. Songkran Festival By PaveenaKaewla-ied No.10 KamonwanJabjai No. 13 Mattayom 5/9

  2. Present TeacherJantanaKhamanukul Kanchananukroh School

  3. Songkran Day

  4. Songkranis the traditional Thai New Year celebration which starts on April 13 of each year and lasts for 3 days.  Songkran is a Thai word which means "move" or "change place" as it is the day when the sun changes its position in the zodiac.  It is also known as the "Water Festival" as people believe that water will wash away bad luck. 

  5. The Songkran festival on April 13 is Maha Songkran Day or the day to mark the end of the old year, on April 14 is Wan Nao which is the day after and April 15 is Wan Thaloeng Sokwhich is when the New Year begins.  At this time, people from the rural areas who are working in the city like Bangkok usually return home to celebrate the festival.

  6. The Songkran tradition is recognized as an important custom for the Thai community, society, and religion.  The value for family is to provide the opportunity for family members to gather in order to express their respect to their elders by pouring scented

  7. water onto the hands of their parents and grandparents and to present them with gifts, including making merit to their ancestors.  The elders in return wish the youngsters good luck and prosperity.

  8. The value for community is to provide the opportunity to create unity in the community so as to jointly acquire merits, to meet each other, and to enjoy the entertaining events.  And the social value is to create awareness of the environment and to create a spirit of cooperation

  9. to clean houses, temples, public places, and official buildings.  Thais value the religion by means of merit acquisition, offering alms to monks, Dhamma practice, listening to sermons, and monks-bathing.

  10. Thank you

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