Thingyan: A Celebration of the Burmese New Year :: Burma, Myanmar

Everywhere I went, there was piddle. state on the alley were all soaked from head to toe. They seemed to like the fact that they are wet. hardly why would they want to get wet? Because its Thingyan.Thingyan is a impostal Burmese celebration which is the water festival. It is a celebration of the Burmese New Year. People celebrate Thingyan in April, the hottest month of the year. The Burmese people threw water at each other to cool themselves down, and as Burmese people reckon it, to clean away the bad deeds of the previous year.Many flowers tip in this time of the year and padouk is the most special among them. Padauk is a spray of small yellow flowers that bloom on bittie stems. Among the dark green leaves, this yellow flower looks very pretty. Padauk is the normal flower in Thingyan. In some villages, boys would pick those flowers for girls to erupt. Most girls wear them even if boys wouldnt pick flowers for them. In the olden days, people would fuss water at each other with buckets of water. They would tease each other and eat special food like, Montloneyaybaw (meansround snack floating on water). Montloneyaybaw is a floating rice shekels ball, which had been boiled. In the center, it has a slash of jaggery. It is served with coconut shreds. Just to have fun, the Burmese people who made this dough would put chili instead of jaggery. People would never get huffy at each other for it is Burmese New Year and acquiring wet is a normal thing at Thingyan.Now a days, as the culture developed, people use water guns and water hoses to commit others wet. Young people would dye their hair to make themselves look cool. They would go around the town in cars to get wet. People who use water hoses would be on stages, throwing water from a high place. There would in like manner be bands playing or dancers dancing on the stages at the back. correct though the culture developed, the traditional practices are understood the same. People still throw water to wash away the bad deeds they did in the previous year. But most of the young people threw water for fun. They forecast this is the time of year to gather all your friends and go around getting wet. But some young people still follows the real tradition of Thingyan.