Why is Thai New Years 3 days long? | Songkran Special

[@howareyamate5096]

Happy Songkran Nan I’m lucky to have celebrated Songkran before and hope to again one day🙏🇹🇭

[@pablozorro3507]

Very interesting and informative. Great presentation 🙏 krub

[@livinonmybike3424]

Songran....an excercise in absolute lunacy!! experienced it once, never again! happy Songran to everyone whom celebrates.

[@davidstreet2949]

Happy Songkran!!!!

[@yiuwahlee560]

Great to know the history. One of the most exciting festival. Water festival as a child, and holiday as an adult. Probably a family reunite when i grow older.😁

[@gakenh01]

Very informative video and excellent presentation.

[@ericmonson7348]

Thanks Nan. Great video about Songkran. Happy Songkran to all Thaiger staff.

[@timatkinson9681]

my favourite part of thaiger. i laugh and learn. excellent work. happy songkran to all

[@blairsinclair4076]

she is a cutie !! good to know some history about the Songkran festival

[@paulburgess6379]

Very informative video great young lady presenting . She has brilliant English language skills

[@carleto9597]

Thanks for the 3 day meaning of Songkran, Nan, Good Job.

[@inderpalsingh-jf1ov]

Congratulations 4 Songkran

[@pawineepusri9111]

Sawadee ka! Happy Songkran!

[@ThailandWithMonchai]

Very valuable information Nan. Thank you for your presentation👍

[@AutumninAsia]

Nan your the best. Thank you for the video.

[@Lee-vo7dl]

Happy Songkran to you.🙏

[@gettuffstudios]

Thank you so much for this video! You saved me a trip down the KZbin rabbit hole to learn what the holiday means. Thanks again!

[@boraulow6787]

Nice and informativ :-) Happy Songkran!

[@matthewdonovan6073]

Happy Songkran Amazing Thailand x I miss you so much.

[@lovinthailand921]

Great special report, nan is so cute!

[@Miguelito0oO]

Great info, thanks and Happy Songkran!

[@lottieclarey]

Thank you for this lovely episode, Nan. I hope to be in Thailand for Songkran 2023! 🤞🏻

[@politanene]

I wish the same... 2023 Thailand here I go again!!!!

[@lottieclarey]

@@politanene hope you make it out there, Paula!

[@ludwigfritsch2886]

Great Video Thanks for tis information!!!

[@stevejohnson3196]

Great video.. Thank you

[@mgt2663]

In northeast India(Tripura),our(Tripuri /tripura tribe or community) new year is also 3days from 13-15 April and we call new year as "Buisuk"..We wear our traditional attire,eat traditional food like sticky rice wrapped,mixed veggie cooked(80+ ingredients) we call it labra,pork salad,bamboo tube sticky rice,flattened sticky rice fried(similar to korean hotteok),various kind of meat ,fish,etc ..

[@davidmccann3929]

Great little vlogs all very interesting presented very well by Nan

[@nepalama3339]

Happy new year from Nepal. We are celebrating 2080.

[@BeefaloBart]

Great info, and an adorable host. Learned much from that.

[@Tex_Symbol69]

Nan is so his dam cute 🥰- we love ❤️ Nan

[@RECURSIVE_MEMORY_LOGIC]

ขอให้ทุกๆคนมีสุขสันต์วันปีใหม่ไทยครับ ขอให้โชคดีตลอดไปและสุขภาพแข็งแรงด้วยนะครับ 🍀😄🥂🍾 รวยๆๆ เฮงๆๆ 💰😆💵💷💶💴

[@garymclaughin]

So peaceful and hope for the new year, lovely young lady and host. All good in Chiang Rai. Sawadee Khap.🤠

[@robertbeattie3988]

She is very cute

[@chathura644]

Sri lanka 🇱🇰🇱🇰

[@heizeloversh2183]

Srilankan too celebrates 13th and 14th of April with nature base ritual.

[@Tex_Symbol69]

I miss you Nan ❤

[@beaconofdarkness6209]

Really nice presentation. Nan has her own style, have to listen a wee bit extra, but her English is good, just pronunciation could be better. I really like her informative presentations, gives an extra and well needed window into Thai culture.❤‍🩹❤. Keep up the good work Nan, you are gorgeous.

[@williamvought7021]

Great work young lady. Kudos

[@seriousdoubt]

Songkran with out water its like a martini without an olive

[@Nord66lys]

Yes! Still better than just an olive without a martini😆.

[@rajdeepsaha439]

i can't believe how similar it is to Bengali new year except than some rituals it's pretty similar cleaning , donate to temples , seeking blessings of elders .new clothes visiting temples ect .

[@kwokweng76]

i want back natty, my favourite newscaster

[@youthinktoomuch]

Very sympathic cute smart Lady. Why do you insult her with this subtitles??? She has a lovely accent. I can understand her english very good ( and I am German!)

[@ratanrajsinghdeo]

Songkran came from Word Sankranti : transformation or pass to . In Traditional India 🇮🇳 also it’s Hindu new year. In India Astrological new year starts from today.

[@minthura9053]

Yes. But in the southeast Asia, it is celebrated as a Buddhist festival. Thailand used Chula Sakarat or Chulasakarat (Burmese! ကောဇာသက္ကရာဇ်: koza thakarit). Chulasakarat (Koza) is a Lunisolar calender. The calendar was launched in 640 CE in Sri Ksetra Kingdom (in modern Myanmar) with the epochal year 0 date of 22 March 638. It was largely a recalibration of then prevailing Mahasakaraj or Saka Era. It was later adopted by the Pagan Kingdom. The use of the calendar appears to have spread southward to the Sukhothai and eastward to Laotian states in the following centuries. The official adoption farther south by the Ayutthaya Kingdom and farther east by Lan Xang came only after King Bayinnaung's conquests of those kingdoms in the 16th century. Subsequent Siamese kingdoms retained the Burmese calendar as the official calendar under the name of Chula Sakarat (Culasakaraj) until 1889. Thailand songkran(Buddhist version) came from the northern Chaing mai and Lanna. Chaing mai and Lanna were a part of Myanmar for more than 200 years. Until 1964 Songkran was celebrated specifically in Chaing mai and Lanna. Later Thai government made it as a national festival and celebrates it nationwide to attract tourists.

[@ratanrajsinghdeo]

@@minthura9053 Chula means : Chola Dynasty of south India which was spreader till Singapore. Songkrat means Sankranti. If you see King Coronation in Thailand all words used are Sanskrit.

[@saboghaeb6116]

🌹❤️🎈

[@nikolauswolff5791]

For me it's a really nice and pure Thai festival that should be celebrated only by Thai people and not together with farrangs. I really like that there is no water splashing this time so everyone can concentrate on the festival as itself.

[@simonpaul830]

It's not only celebrated in Thailand. Its celebrated in Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. Your comment shows your ignorance of the subject. As for your Farang comment, that's racist and moronic. It's a Buddhist celebration and religions don't have a restriction on skin colour.

[@simonpaul830]

@@sahpraphaphorn6240 thanks 🙏

[@minthura9053]

@Nikolaus Wolff pure my ass Thailand used Chula Sakarat or Chulasakarat (Burmese! ကောဇာသက္ကရာဇ်: koza thakarit). Chulasakarat (Koza) is a Lunisolar calender. The calendar was launched in 640 CE in Sri Ksetra Kingdom (in modern Myanmar) with the epochal year 0 date of 22 March 638. It was largely a recalibration of then prevailing Mahasakaraj or Saka Era. It was later adopted by the Pagan Kingdom. The use of the calendar appears to have spread southward to the Sukhothai and eastward to Laotian states in the following centuries. The official adoption farther south by the Ayutthaya Kingdom and farther east by Lan Xang came only after King Bayinnaung's conquests of those kingdoms in the 16th century. Subsequent Siamese kingdoms retained the Burmese calendar as the official calendar under the name of Chula Sakarat (Culasakaraj) until 1889. Thailand songkran(Buddhist version) came from the northern Chaing mai and Lanna. Chaing mai and Lanna were a part of Myanmar for more than 200 years. Until 1964 Songkran was celebrated specifically in Chaing mai and Lanna. Later Thai government made it as a national festival and celebrates it nationwide to attract tourists.

[@bhupalmanrajbanshi3759]

New year in Nepal

[@stokakrishna]

Congrats on your English

[@karmennocera3865]

KOP KUN KA !!!!! KISSSS KARMEN

[@tonythaiger93]

Nan is so hot! 😍

[@stevem4820]

The real meaning of songkran.not about idiots causing chaos danger and the highest death rate in any one year

[@Kwippy]

Thai people don't generally wish each other Happy Songkran, it's not like Xmas or New Year. It is also not seen as the beginning of a new anything.

[@simonpaul830]

Wrong on all counts.

[@BrianCRPG]

@@simonpaul830 wrong on all counts? how little you really know about Thailand!

[@simonpaul830]

@@BrianCRPG Prove us Thai people wrong otherwise then. Enlighten us with your extensive Thai knowledge so us Thais can be educated. Waiting for your proof !

[@craigdaurizio686]

3 days!? More like 9....

[@maegalroammis6020]

looks like a tourism ad

[@minthura9053]

Thailand used Chula Sakarat or Chulasakarat (Burmese! ကောဇာသက္ကရာဇ်: koza thakarit). Chulasakarat (Koza) is a Lunisolar calender. The calendar was launched in 640 CE in Sri Ksetra Kingdom (in modern Myanmar) with the epochal year 0 date of 22 March 638. It was largely a recalibration of then prevailing Mahasakaraj or Saka Era. It was later adopted by the Pagan Kingdom. The use of the calendar appears to have spread southward to the Sukhothai and eastward to Laotian states in the following centuries. The official adoption farther south by the Ayutthaya Kingdom and farther east by Lan Xang came only after King Bayinnaung's conquests of those kingdoms in the 16th century. Subsequent Siamese kingdoms retained the Burmese calendar as the official calendar under the name of Chula Sakarat (Culasakaraj) until 1889. Thailand songkran(Buddhist version) came from the northern Chaing mai and Lanna. Chaing mai and Lanna were a part of Myanmar for more than 200 years. Until 1960 Songkran was celebrated specifically in Chaing mai and Lanna. Later Thai government made it as a national festival and celebrates it nationwide to attract tourists.

[@minthura9053]

Songkran is not the official Thai new year anymore.

[@sophonb7931]

Why is Songkran called the Thai new year, but the chinese new year had to be renamed to Lunar New Year? As Songkran also follows the lunar calendar. Then Songkran should actually also be called a Lunar New Year. Why people only renaming the chinese new year, but not the Thai new year? That's hypocrite.

[@hinamoli8593]

As a thai I can say that Because It comes from local culture mixed with Theravada Buddhism. It's not the culture of Thai-Chinese people. bro.😊

[@hinamoli8593]

สงกรานต์ It not the real Thai alphabet but it come from Sanskrit

[@hinamoli8593]

And you know bro. My hometown is Nakhonsawan"นครสวรรค์" A province with a large population of Thai-chinese people. We have celebrated Chinese New year every year bro😅. So the word of you like " hypocrite " That's F_king racist!!

[@sophonb7931]

@@hinamoli8593 That was not the point. Why is Sonkran allowed to be called Thai NEw Year? And Chinese NEw YEAr has to be renamed to Lunar NEw YEAR?

[@hinamoli8593]

@@sophonb7931 I don't know what You resources are come from who??!! But I'm call "ตรุษจีน" that's mean Chinese New year!!!

[@BrianCRPG]

The Thaiger gets worse - Songkran is NOT THAI NEW YEAR! Thai New year was changed to be the same date as the West in (I believe) 1966 how about some fact checking?

[@TheThaiger]

It IS the Thai New Year. Sawasdee pi mai Brian.

[@simonpaul830]

Both are officially observed. And that is a fact

[@BrianCRPG]

@@simonpaul830 try another fact - it was changed by Thai act of parliament

[@BrianCRPG]

@@TheThaiger it is not! try Wilki - Their year started around April 13. Now, their year starts on January 1, a quote

[@SV-kr9fu]

How is it not a traditional Thai New Year? If it is not, then I guess my entire family members have been lying to me for the last few decades that I have been alive. And I guess I have wasted a lot of water dumping it on the stupid farangs when I was a kid.

[@petemitchel7256]

Tim, please get someone else to host this content. This person is so hard to understand and damn if I'm going to watch subtitles.

[@lovinthailand921]

Then don’t watch. that’s her second language and she does an awesome job.

[@amy-janefoster982]

An incredibly rude comment isn't needed. I'm partially deaf and can still hear her clearly.

[@jamesgogol506]

I’m learning Thai and couldn’t find much good info on Songkran in English, much love from the U.S. ❤️🤍💙

[@shane0traveller451]

Very informative