Thai people
admit that there are twelve months for one Year. Thai people start
counting the first lunar month, the second one and the third one
respectively until to the twelfth lunar month. In the past, Thai
regarded April as their New Year's Day, and this month is the
month of Songkran
Festival or water splashing Festival,
but now Thai people's New Year's Day is January 1, according to
the international belief.
Thais believe
that New Year's Day will bring back only the good thing to their
lives or get a better life. Therefore, when New Year's Day approaches,
Thais like to make merit by giving alms, giving blessings to their
friends as well as relatives, asking blessing from the elderly
and celebrating New Year's Day in some places.
| Vocabulary
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kum-sab
(คำศัพท์) |
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Reading
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New
Year's Day
|
wan-kheun-pee-mai
(วันขึ้นปีใหม่) |
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Twelve
|
sib-sorng
(สิบสอง) |
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Lunar
|
jan-ta-ra-ka-ti
(จันทรคติ) |
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Respectively
|
tarm-lum-dab
(ตามลำดับ) |
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Water
splashing
|
sard-num
(สาดน้ำ) |
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Festival
|
tead-sa-garn
(เทศกาล) |
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Belief
|
kwarm-choer
(ความเชื่อ) |
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Blessing
|
uay-porn
(อวยพร) |
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Celebrating
|
cha-lhorng
(ฉลอง) |
