Light and Lantern


After a minute of suddenly sunset, in the season of lantern and light festive, all a long the riverbank in every parts of Thailand will fully fill with light and lantern blowing to decorate the dark-blue night sky. The full moon night of the lunar calendar year, the celebrate of Loy Kratong. This season in all parts of Thailand will set up and features many activities which concerning to people’s water respected and worshiping.

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Loy kratong festival continually took part since long time ago. People lives along the stream and all riverside like the one the one Mekong, Chaopaya, and others streamline usually been taken. The people will prepared their traditional hand made floating object that local native Thai later call ‘Kratong’ most of Kratong were made from banana leaf and its stem in most circle or square shape. Kratong size, which they build, may be big enough to put another worshipment stuff, like candle, joss stick, flowers or other incense for the river and waterway worshiping might that brings all wealthy to their agricultural community. In more, other than worship, they believed that this kind of Kratong was the symbol of water and river spiritual apologized.

Loy Kratong in main purposed may consider that traditional native Thai people floating some of their hand made object from banana leaf and its stem for worship, respect, and spiritual apologize to the river and waterway and let all their sadness or sorrow or even all unlucky flow away along the river. People beyond the Buddhism believed and faith stand on the simply basic of natural rules and it is existing.

In the modern day of light and lantern season as Loy Kratong, there were more than water worshipment and respected. Most young Thais take this occasion celebrating with their old friend family or beloved one.

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