Culture of Thailand

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Thai culture has grown rapidly over time, from the pre-globalization era of the country in the Sukhothai era, to the more contemporary Ayutthaya era, absorbing influence from across Asia. The strong Indian, Chinese and other Southeast Asian influences are still visible in traditional Thai culture. Buddhism, Animism, and Westernization also play an important role in shaping culture.

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Lifestyle

Religion

Thailand is nearly 94 per cent Buddhists, mainly from Theravada schools (which include Thai Forest Tradition and the Dhammayuttika Nikaya and Santi Asoke sects) and an unknown minority from the Mahayana school. In addition there are Muslim minorities in Thailand (5-6 percent), Christians (1 percent), and other religions. Theravada Thai Buddhism is supported and supervised by the government, with the monks receiving a number of government benefits, such as the use of free public transport.

Buddhism in Thailand is strongly influenced by the traditional beliefs of ancestral and natural spirits, which have been incorporated into Buddhist cosmology. Most Thai people install a spirit house (Thai: ????????? ; RTGS: Ã, san phra phum ), a miniature house outside their residence, where they believe the household spirits live. They present food and drink offerings to these spirits to make them happy. If these spirits are unhappy, it is believed that they will inhabit the household and cause chaos. These spiritual houses can be found in public places and on the streets of Thailand, where people make offers.

Before the rise of Theravada Buddhism, both India's Brahmana religion and Mahayana Buddhism were present in Thailand. The influence of these two traditions is still visible in today's Thai folklore. The Brahmanist Temple plays an important role in Thai religion, and the influence of Mahayana Buddhism is reflected in the presence of figures such as Lokesvara, a form of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara which is sometimes incorporated into Thailand's iconography.

Customs

Traditional customs and folklore of the people of Thailand were collected and described by Phya Anuman Rajadhon in the 20th century, at a time when modernity changed the face of Thailand and a large number of traditions disappeared or became adaptable to modern life. However, the quest for improvement, rooted in the ancient Siamese culture, comprising advancing what is perfected and avoiding rudeness is the main focus of Thai people's daily life and high on their value scales.

One of Thailand's most distinctive habits is wai . Used to greet, abandon, or in recognition, it comes in various forms, reflecting the relative status of those involved. Generally salam involves movements such as prayer by hand, derived from AÃÆ' Â ± jali Mudr? of the Indian subcontinent, and that may also include a slight bow. This greeting is often accompanied by a tranquil smile that symbolizes a friendly attitude and a pleasant attitude. Thailand is often referred to as the "land of smiles" in tourist brochures.

Public show of affection is not very common in traditional Thai society, especially among lovers. This is becoming more common, especially among the younger generation.

An important social norm states that touching a person in the head may be considered impolite. It is also considered impolite to place one's feet on a level above the head of another, especially if the person has a higher social standing. This is because the Thai regard the foot as the dirtiest and lowest part of the body, and the head of the most respected and the highest part of the body. It also affects how Thai people sit on the ground - their feet always away from others, tucked to the side or behind them. Pointing or touching something with your feet is also considered rude.

Because a calm disposition is appreciated, the conflict and appearance of anger are suddenly eliminated in Thai culture. For this reason, visitors should be careful not to create conflicts or display anger. Disagreements or disputes must be dealt with with a smile and no effort should be made to blame others. In everyday life in Thailand, there is a strong emphasis on the concept of sanuk ; the idea that life should be fun. Therefore, Thai people can simply play around in the workplace and during daily activities. Showing positive emotions in social interaction is also important in Thai culture.

Often, Thai people will deal with disputes, minor faults, or misfortunes using the phrase mai rai , translated as "no problem". The use of these words in Thailand generally reflects dispositions to minimize conflicts, disputes or complaints. The smile and the phrase "mai rai rai" indicate that the incident is not important and therefore there is no conflict or shame involved.

Honoring the hierarchy is a very important value for Thai people. The custom bun khun emphasizes debt to the parents, as well as the guardian, teacher, and caregiver. It describes the feelings and practices involved in certain relationships arranged around generic reciprocity, calculations of slow exchanges calculated according to scale and action interpreted locally. It is also considered irreverent to step on any kind of Thai currency (coins or Thai notes) because they are the likeness of the Thai King.

There are a number of Thai customs relating to the special status of monks in Thai society. Thai monks are banned from physical contact with women. Therefore, women are expected to make way for the monks to pass through to ensure that accidental contact does not occur. Various methods are used to ensure that no incidental contact (or appearance of such contact) between women and monks takes place. The women who offered the monks made their donations at the feet of the monks, or on the cloth placed on the ground or on the table. Powders or ointments intended to bring blessings are applied to Thai women by the monks using the tip of a candle or a stick. Lay people are expected to sit or stand with their heads on a lower level than a bhikkhu. Inside a temple, monks can sit on elevated stage during the ceremony to make it easier to accomplish.

While sitting in a temple, one is expected to point one's feet from images of the Buddha. The temple in the Thai settlement is arranged in such a way as to ensure that the feet do not lead to religious icons, such as placing temples on the same wall with the head of the bed, if a house is too small to remove the temple from the bedroom. fully.

It is common to remove a person's footwear before entering the house or sacred area inside the temple, and not step on the doorstep. Traditional clothing

Traditional Thai dress is called chut thai (Thai: ?????? Thai pronunciation: Ã, [t ?? ÃÆ'ºt.t? Aj] ) which literally means "Thai outfit". It can be used by men, women, and children. Chut thai for women usually consists of pha nung or chong kraben, blouses, and sabai. Northern and northeastern women may be wearing sin, not pha nung and chong kraben with blouses or sue pats. Chut thai for men including chong kraben or pants, Raj pattern shirts, with optional white knee socks and sabai. Chut thai for northern Thai men consists of sado, Manchu-style white jacket, and sometimes khian hua. In official events, people can choose to wear what is called the national official Thai costume.

Cuisine

Thai eating etiquette

Thai eating etiquette refers to the traditional and courteous behavior of Thai people while eating. Since the Thai people have many large families, eating together and sharing food among family members is a traditional Thai style of eating. Generally, Thai eat rice as a main meal and share a side dish of rice with each other Traditionally, in Thailand, people eat on mats and eat food with their right hands. The rice dishes are in the outer circle while the shared plates are in the middle of the circle with a spoon together to move the side dishes to their own rice plate.
During the reign of King Mongkut (Rama IV); King Chulalongkorn the Great (Rama V), Prince Chulalongkorn at the time, educated by a British woman, approached diplomats and Western leaders and traveled abroad. Observed and learned to eat western and he found a fork and knife unsuitable for Thai food (no need to cut anything). He introduced a fork and spoon and started using cutlery in Thailand. The Thai use a fork to push food into the spoon (right hand), which then goes into your mouth instead of making the meat stable for the knife function. Currently, Thai dinners are mixed with the culture of eating different countries, so Thai people use many styles to eat not only with a spoon and fork one but also chopsticks, knives and empty hands as well.

Eating Thai Regional

• The center of Thailand

In central Thailand, sitting on a chair, eating at a table and using a fork, spoon and spoon together is an old habit (Rama IV). To eat a wealthy Thai family, napkins of various shapes are added on the table and also hire waiters or servants to serve food and drinks beside the table. For some poor people spoons together are not used.

• Northern part of Thailand

The northern Thai people still retain their traditional culture by using snack bowls and placing them on "Kan tok" (a small northern Thailand table). They are decorated with wood, pearl or golden yellow. Glutinous rice, glutinous rice is the main meal eaten with food. It is contained in "Kratip Song Soong", a high container for sticky rice. In addition to "Kan tok", there is "Kon Tho Din", made of earthenware and silver cup "Kan ngeaun". After completing the main course, dessert is served as well as "Buri Chai Yo", cigarette, which is the end of the meal.

• Northeast of Thailand, "Isan"

Usually the food is served on a large flower pattern tray. The sticky rice is contained in "Kra Tip Song Taei" (low-high container for glutinous rice). Then dessert is served.

• Southern Thailand

Local people eat on floor mats. Plate placed in the middle. They sit in a circle and eat traditionally with bare hands. Drinking water is contained in "Kan" or "Jok", (small Thai cup.) Currently, forks and spoons are used instead of empty hands. Sitting in a chair and eating at a table now dominates. There are only a few local people who still maintain the original eating style.

How to serve food in Thailand

There are two main ways to serve Thai food, "Raad Kao", individual dishes and "Gap Kao", separate dishes.

• Individual Dish

In the past, Thai people have large families. Because of the difficulty of eating together at the same time, placing rice and rice dishes on the same plate and serving individually is to some extent replace the traditional Thai style of eating.

• Separate Plates

The rice dishes are served separately with rice (not the same dish). Typically, this style is suitable for eating with others. The side dish dishes together are in the middle of the circle. Each one has its own rice while the side dish is divided by moving it with a spoon together onto an individual rice plate.

Table settings

• Individual dish

The spoon is on the right side and the fork is on the left side of the dish.

• Shared plate

For rice dishes, spoons are on the right side and the fork is on the left side of the dish. A shared dish is placed in the center of the table with a serving spoon.

Customs and customs

• Order

For a shared dish style, let the senior group order their side dishes first and then choose the menu everyone can eat and try ordering the balance of the dishes, ordering fish or seafood, pork, prawns, chicken and vegetarian dishes that include a wide variety taste. Spicy, sweet, salty, and bitter will all be represented, often in one dish. When the dish is served, everything does not come soon. Food keeps coming and coming.

• Dining

Thai people eat using fork and spoon method combo. Spoon acts as a primary tool and a fork is a support tool pushing food into spoons and spoons together is the main tool for scooping food from a dish together to a plate of rice. Some people use their own spoons to scoop the food from the dish together directly but that's not a good way to eat for Thailand because they care about sanitation issues. If the dish that is distributed is curry, it is transferred to individual small cups first. Then they sipped the soup from the spoon. Inhaling it from the cup directly is not appropriate, in addition, making noise during meals and inhaling disrespectful in Thailand. On the other hand, talking at meal times is not prohibited. However, the Thai food menu includes lots of fish and spices that some parts are not to eat - split the food is a common behavior for Thailand. Separating the spoon, and putting it on the edge of the plate or providing a dish for garbage is a common practice of Thailand After eating, place the spoon and fork near the bowl/bowl, collect the garbage to one side of their plate and stack the empty plates on the side of the table making the waiters realize that the customer asked them to clean the table Because there are many Chinese families in Thailand, Chinese culture is mixed with Thai culture. Sticking a stick, stabbing a stick or skewer into the food on a plate and letting it stick straight up, not polite. In order to politely use a toothpick, stop your mouth with one hand before you choose with another.

• Charges

Billings are usually taken and paid by the richest or most important person or the inviter or the eldest person. If the customer is a friend, the bill is usually paid separately.

Birth of tradition and belief

The traditional principles of pregnancy and birth are largely influenced by popular belief, especially in rural areas in central and northern Thailand. Modern practices follow Western medical models.

Nickname

Thai people universally have one, or sometimes more, short nicknames (Thai: ???????? game names ) that they use with friends and family. Often first given immediately after birth by friends or older family members, this nickname is very one syllable (or worn from two syllables to one). Although they may be only a shortened version of the full name, they quite often do not have a relationship with a person's full name and often funny and/or unreasonable words. Babies can be nicknamed a relative or named for birth characteristics, for example, "small". Traditionally, the nickname will relate to low-value things, for example, "dirt", which to convince the evil spirit to hide around that the child is not worthy of attention. Today the people's habits are declining.

Some common nicknames are translated into English as "small", "fatty", "pig", "small", "frog", "banana", "green", or "girl/boy". Though rare, sometimes Thai children are named in the order they were born into the family (ie, "one", "two", "three", etc.). Nicknames are useful because Thai official names are often long, especially among Thai-speaking Chinese, whose extended family names come from attempts to translate Chinese names into equivalent Thai, or among Thai languages ​​with Sanskrit names same length. In recent years, English words have become popular nicknames. Examples include: "Ice" (????); "Bank" (?????); "New" (???); "Ball" (???), and even "Beer" (??????).

Wedding

The Buddhist Thai ceremony is generally divided into two parts: the Buddhist component, which includes prayer readings and offerings of food and other gifts for Buddhist monks and images, and non-Buddhist components rooted in the folk tradition, centered on the couple's family.

In the past, it was not known that Buddhist monks were present at every stage of the wedding ceremony itself. Since monks are asked to attend the dead during the funeral, their presence at a marriage (associated with fertility, and intended to produce children) is considered a bad omen. Couples will seek blessings from local temples before or after marriage, and may consult with a monk to seek astrological advice in setting a good date for marriage. The non-Buddhist portion of the marriage will take place far away from the temple, and often occurs on separate days.

In modern times, this ban has been significantly relaxed. Not infrequently a visit to a temple is made on the same day as a non-Buddhist wedding party, or even for a wedding takes place inside the temple. While a division is still frequently observed between the "religious" and "secular" sections of a wedding service, it may be as simple as the monks who attended the Buddhist ceremony that departs for lunch after their roles are completed.

During the Buddhist component of the marriage service, the couple first stoops in front of the Buddha statue. They then read certain Buddhist basic prayers or chants (usually including taking Three Refugees and Five Precepts), and lighting incense and candles before drawing. Parents of the couple can then be called to "connect" them, by placing on the bride's head and the twin pairs of threads or threads that connect the couple together. The couple can then offer food, flower, and medicine offerings to the monks present. Cash prizes (usually placed in envelopes) can also be presented to the temple at this time.

The bhikkhus can then remove the small threads held between the hands of the gathered monks. They embarked on a series of repetitions of the Pali scriptures intended to bring the reward and blessings to the new couple. The strings end with the main monk, who can connect him with a water container to be "purified" for the ceremony. Merit is said to travel through a string and delivered it to the water. A similar arrangement is used to transfer the reward for the dead in the cemetery, further evidence of the weakening of the taboo on the mixing of funeral pictures and ornaments with a marriage ceremony. The blessed water can be mixed with wax droplets from candles illuminated in front of Buddha images and other lubricants and spices to create a paste which is then applied to the forehead of the bride to create a small dot, similar to a red-made sign. oker on Hindus. The bride's sign is made with the butt of the candle and not the monk's thumb, in accordance with Vinaya's prohibition to touch the woman.

The monk with the highest rank can choose to say a few words to the couple, offering suggestions or encouragement. The couple can then give the food offering to the monks, at that time the Buddhist part of the ceremony is concluded.

Thailand's dowry system is known as sin sot (Thai: ?????? ; RTGS: Ã, < span lang = "th-Latn" title = "Thai transliteration"> sin sot ). The groom will be expected to pay some money to the family, to compensate them for the loss of the girl and to show that the groom is financially able to care for their daughter. Sometimes, this amount is purely symbolic and will be returned to the bride after marriage has taken place. Whether the practice of sin sot is tradition or deception has been debated by critics. One observed, "Everyone who talks about faces and arguments for cherished traditions is a concealed concealment." Behind the gobbledygook, it is the same old power of the material world and about parents earning enough money to buy a new pickup, pay extraordinary debt or get something to improve their status. "

The religious component of the wedding ceremony between Muslim Thai is very different from that described above. The local mosque imam, the groom, the bride's father, the man in the immediate family, and the important man in the community sit in a circle during the ceremony, performed by the Imam. All women, including the bride, sit in separate rooms and have no direct participation in the ceremony. The secular component of the ceremony, however, is often almost identical to the secular part of the Thai Buddhist wedding ceremony. The only important difference here is the type of meat served to the guests (goat and/or beef, not pork). Thai Muslims often, though not always, also follow the Thai dowry system convention.

Funeral

Traditionally, the funeral lasted for at least a week. Crying is not recommended during the funeral, so as not to worry about the deceased's spirit. Many activities around the cemetery are meant to make a virtue for the deceased. Copies of Buddhist scriptures can be printed and distributed on behalf of the deceased, and gifts are usually given to the local temple. Monks are invited to chant prayers intended to reward the deceased, and to provide protection against the possibility of relatives who have died again as evil spirits. The picture of the deceased from his best days will often appear next to the coffin. Often, the thread is connected to a corpse or coffin held by a monk who rambles during the recitation; This thread is intended to transfer the goodness of the monks' reading to the deceased. Bodies were cremated, and jars with ashes were usually kept in chedi at local temples.

The Chinese and Thai Thai Muslim minorities bury their deceased according to their respective community rituals.

Anthem and respect for flags and kings

Twice a day, at 08:00 and back at 18:00, the national anthem is played by all Thai media. The Thai people stop what they do and still pay attention to pay tribute to the flag during the national anthem. Students at school stand in front of an elevated flag and sing national anthems at 08:00 each school day. The practice date of 1935 when rules for raising and lowering colors were published at the Royal Gazette . The Flag Act of 1979 stipulates that those who did not pay attention to customs with standing silence during the national anthem were fined up to 2,000 baht and not more than a year in prison.

In related practice, the King of Thailand's royal song is played before movies, concerts, and sporting events. Everyone is expected to stand up.

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Traditional art

Art

Thai visual art is traditionally Buddhist. The Thai Buddha Statues from different periods have a number of different styles. The art and architecture of Thai temples form a unique combination of elements derived from ancient Siamese architecture. Contemporary Thai art often combines traditional Thai elements with modern techniques.

Literature in Thailand is strongly influenced by Indian Hindu culture. Thailand's most famous literary work is the Ramayana version, a Hindu religious epic, called Ramakien, partly written by King Rama I and Rama II, and Sunthorn Phu's poem.

Traditional Thai painting shows the subject in two dimensions without perspective. The size of each element in the image reflects its importance. The main compositional technique is the division of an area: the main elements are separated from each other by the transformer space. This removes the intermediate ground, which would otherwise imply perspective. Perspective was introduced only as a result of Western influence in the mid-19th century. Artist Khrua In Khong is known as the first artist to introduce a linear perspective to traditional Thai art.

There is no oral drama tradition in Thailand, its role is even filled by Thai dance. It is divided into three categories: Khon, 'Lakhon, and Likay, Khon being the most complicated and the most popular Likay. Drama Nang, a form of shadow game, is found in the south.

There is also Thai folklore, Sri Thanonchai as an example.

Dance

The first European record of khon and other classical Siamese dances was made during the Ayutthaya Kingdom. It depicts dramatic traditions and styles that are almost identical to the Thai tradition we still see today. The historical evidence clearly stipulates that the stage performing arts of Thailand must have been perfected in the 17th century. Louis XIV, the King of the French Sun, has a formal diplomatic relationship with King Narai of Ayutthaya. In 1687, France sent diplomat Simon de la LoubÃÆ'¨re to record everything he saw in the Kingdom of Siam and its traditions. In his account of Du Royaume de Siam , La LoubÃÆ'¨re scrutinized the 17th century classical drama of Siam, including the epic battle scenes of the khon show, and recorded what he saw in great detail:

Si Siam has three kinds of Stage Played: What they call Cone [khon] is a dance figure, for the sound of the violin and some other instruments.The masked and armed dancers, and represents more precisely the battle than the dance, and though everyone runs into in high movements, and extraordinary postures, they stop not constantly inserting a few words, most of them dreadful masks, and representing terrible monsters, or demon types.The show they call Lacone is an intermix poem with Epic and Dramatic, which lasted for three days, from eight in the morning to seven in the evening, they were history in verse, serious, and sung by some always present actor, and who only sang reciprocally.... Rabam is a male double dance and women, who are not martial, but dashing... they can do that without much tying themselves, because of the way they dance is a simple, very slow, and high-motion march, but with a lot of slow gestures and arms. "

From the performers of the Khon Siam dancer, La LoubÃÆ'¨re notes that: "[T] the dancing hose in Rabam, and Cone, had gold-plated paper, tall and pointy, like a Mandarin hat from the ceremony, but which hung on the sides at under their ears, adorned with fake stones, and with two golden pendants.

Today "ram Thai" (Thai: ????? ), 'Thai Dance'. Thai dance, like many other forms of traditional Asian dance, can be divided into two main categories that correspond to high art (classical dance) and low art (folk dance).

Although traditional Thai performing arts are not as vibrant as before, suffering breakthroughs from Western entertainment and generally changing tastes, Thai dance dramas are not extinct. What survives displays the elegance of an enhanced form of art over the centuries and backed by grand patronage.

In addition to folk and regional dances (South Indian-influenced Menora dance, for example), the two main forms of Thai classical dance dramas are khon and Lakhon nai. At first, they were merely entertainment venues in the palace and soon the popular dance theater style, Likay, evolved as a diversion for the common people who had no access to the royal show. In addition to Lakhon nai, Lakhon chatri is also one of Thailand's most important dances.

Music

The Music of Thailand includes the traditions of classical music and folk, for example, Piphat and Mor lam, respectively, as well as Thai pop music, for example, "String". Thai classical music is synonymous with those court-style and repertoire-style styles that emerged in its present form within the center of the Central Thai kingdom about 800 years ago. This ensemble, though little influenced by the old practice and repertoire of India, is now a typical Thai expression. While the three major classical ensembles, Piphat, Khrueang sai and Mahori differ significantly, they all share basic instrumentation and theoretical approaches. Each uses a small cymbal ching and a wooden stick krap to mark the main beat reference.

Some small drum types ( klong ) are used in this ensemble to describe the basic rhythmic structure ( natab ) interspersed at the end by beating the pending gong. mong ). Seen in the most basic formulation, the classical Thai orchestra is very similar to the typical Cambodian (Khmer) and mahori ribbons, and is structurally similar to other orchestras found in Southeast Asian gong-chime music cultures, such as Balinese and Javanese gamelan most likely having their common roots in the spreading of Vietnamese Dong-Son bronze drums that began in the first century.

Traditional Thai classical repertoire is anonymous, derived through an oral tradition of performance in which the names of composers (if indeed, pieces historically made by a single author) are unknown. However, since the beginning of the modern Bangkok period, the names of the composers have been known and, since about the turn of the century, many major composers have recorded their works in notation. Musicians, however, envisage this composition and notation as a generic form manifested in full in idiosyncratic variations and improvisations in the context of performance.

Sports

Muay Thai (Thai: ?????? , RTGS: Muai Thai, Ã, [muaj t? aj] , lit. "Thai boxing") is the original form of kickboxing and sports typical of Thailand. It combines kicks, punches, knees and elbow attacks in a ring with gloves similar to those used in Western boxing and this has led to Thailand getting a medal at the Olympics in boxing.

The football association has taken over muay Thai as the most followed sport in contemporary Thailand society. Thailand's national football team has played the AFC Asian Cup six times and reached the semi-finals in 1972. The country has hosted the Asian Cup twice, in 1972 and 2007. The 2007 edition was jointly organized with Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. It is not uncommon to see Thai people cheering up their favorite English Premier League team on television and traveling around with replica equipment. Another very popular activity, and once a competitive sport, is flying a kite.

Takraw (Thai: ??????) is a native Thai sport, where players hit rattan balls and are only allowed to use their legs, knees, chests, and heads to touch the ball. Sepak takraw is a form of this sport that is similar to volleyball. The players must kick the ball over the net and force it to touch the ground on the opposing side. It is also a popular sport in other countries in Southeast Asia. A slightly similar game but played only by the foot is an Open ball.

Architecture

The main part of the country's cultural heritage and reflects the challenges of life in Thailand sometimes the extreme climate as well as, historically, the architectural importance to the taste of Thai society and religious beliefs. Influenced by the architectural tradition of many of Thailand's neighbors, it has also developed significant regional variations in its vernacular and religious buildings.

The Buddhist temple in Thailand is known as "wats", from P ?? i v ?? a , which means enclosure. A temple has an attaching wall that divides it from the secular world. Wat's architecture has seen many changes in Thailand in the course of history. Although there are many differences in layout and style, they all adhere to the same principles.

Like the Thai "stage house", a universal aspect of traditional Thai architecture is the elevation of the building on the stage, most common for around the head height. The area under the house is used for storage, handicrafts, leisure during the day, and sometimes for cattle. The houses are resurrected due to massive flooding during certain parts of the year, and in more ancient times, predators. Thai buildings and living habits are often based on superstitious and religious beliefs. Many other considerations such as available local materials, climate, and agriculture have a lot to do with style.

Thai traditional game

• Kratai kha deow (one-legged rabbit)

"Kratai kha deow" or "one-legged rabbit" is a kind of catch game. The catcher will call the rabbit, and the rabbit must stand on one foot and jump or tiptoe to catch another player and move on to the rabbit instead. This game will train your legs and practice balancing on one foot. The number of players is divided into two teams, or may not have any teams at all. Usually, there are two or more players. At first, players will choose a rabbit or team with "rock-scissors-paper". The loser must be a rabbit.

In the case of a solo player, the rabbit must stand on one foot, then jump up chase and touch the body parts of other children who have fled. Everyone should stay in the designated area. A player who runs out of space loses the game and has to turn to the rabbit, but if the rabbit is exhausted and can not stand on one leg, it is a defeat and should be punished.

In team play, the rules are similar to a solo player, but the rabbit team will send a representative to capture the other team to everyone. Those arrested will have to wait outside until the rabbit team can capture all the opposing teams. The rabbit team can turn to teammates to catch up until they are exhausted, and if all the members in the rabbit team are exhausted and can not stand on one leg, the rabbit team loses the game and should be punished as well.

• Banana agile hobby on horseback

Banana agile hobby on horseback or "khee ma khan kluay" in Thailand is a traditional Thai game that is often played by Thai children in the past. They use banana trunks to make parts of horses such as heads, ears, and ponytails. Materials for making banana rib hobby horse are banana stems, knives, small bamboo pins, and ropes. First, find a banana stem along the 1.5 m. Cut in the shape of head, neck, and ears, then use a small bamboo pin to connect the ear to the horse's head. The remaining part of the banana trunk becomes a ponytail. Place the rope between the head and the ponytail of the banana stalk and place it on the shoulder of the rider.

The children sit on horses and pretend they are riding real horses, shouting "hee hee" or "yee haaah", sounding typical of those who ride horses. They may compete with friends if they have more than two players. The team that runs faster is the winner.

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Holiday

Holidays are important in Thai culture including the Thai New Year, or Songkran, which is officially observed from April 13-15 each year. Falling at the end of the dry season and during summer in Thailand, the celebration is famous for featuring a boisterous water throw. Water throwing comes from the washing of Buddha images and a little splashing water in the hands of parents. A small amount of powdery powder is also used in annual cleansing ceremonies. In the last few decades, water fighting has been increasingly industrialized using hoses, barrels, spray guns, water-filled surgical tubes, and many powders.

Loi Krathong is held on the 12th full moon of the Thai lunar calendar, usually early November. Although it is not a government-observed holiday, it is a good day in Thai culture, where Thai people "loi", meaning "float" a "krathong", a small raft traditionally made of intricately folded banana leaf and includes flowers, candles, incense, and small offerings. The act of floating a wax raft is a symbol of letting go of all a person's grudges, anger, and defilements so that one can start life again on a better footing.

National Elephant Day or Day of Chang Thai is a holiday in Thailand, held on March 13th, which celebrates the importance of elephant culture and history in Thailand.

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Pastimes

Reading and the Internet

Eighty-eight percent of Thai people read books and spend an average of 28 minutes per day doing so, according to a poll conducted by the Thai Book Publishing and Bookellers Association (PUBAT) and the Faculty of Economics and Research Center for Social and Business Development at Chulalongkorn University.

A total of 3,432 Thais aged 15-69 in 12 provinces, including Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Songkhla, Nakhon Si Thamarat, Nakhon Ratchsima and Khon Kaen, were interviewed from December 2014 to January 2015. While 88% of Thai respondents said they read books, 12 % say they do not. They mention reasons for lack of time, poor vision, and do not like to read.

On average over the entire population, Thai people spend 28 minutes a day reading books. Sub-set readings of the population averaged 46 minutes a day. Of this group, those under the age of 20 spend the most time reading books, 56 minutes a day. That number shrank with age until it reaches 61, when people tend to re-read.

By comparison, 71% of Thai people use the Internet almost daily for an average of 92 minutes. Those who spend most of their time on the Internet are people under 20, averaging 224 minutes a day, while those over 61 spend ten minutes a day online.

In 2013, the Office for National Statistics of Thailand conducted a reading survey that found that Thai citizens over the age of six spent an average of 37 minutes per day reading. The survey did not focus specifically on reading books, but also read journals, Internet, tablet computers, and smartphones.

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See also

• Thai Cinema
• Thai Folklore
• Ghost in Thai culture
• List of museums in Thailand
• Media in Thailand
• Ministry of Culture (Thailand)
• Phya Anuman Rajadhon
• Racism in Thailand
• Royal Thai Flag
• Thai National Artist
• Art and architecture of Thai temple
• Betel Chewing In Thailand
• Thai school uniform

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References

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External links

• Ministry of Culture
• Thai story
• Thai culture
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