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

Everywhere I went, there was urine. People on the road were all soaked from signal to toe. They seemed to like the fact that they are wet. But why would they want to complicate wet? Because its Thingyan.Thingyan is a traditional Burmese celebration which is the water festival. It is a celebration of the Burmese New Year. People celebrate Thingyan in April, the hottest calendar month of the category. The Burmese volume threw water at from each one some other to nerveless themselves down, and as Burmese people believe it, to clean away the openhanded deeds of the previous year.Many flowers bloom in this time of the year and Padauk is the almost special among them. Padauk is a spray of weeny yellow(a) flowers that bloom on little stems. Among the dark green leaves, this yellow flower looks very pretty. Padauk is the typical flower in Thingyan. In some villages, boys would fragment those flowers for girls to wear. Most girls wear them even if boys wouldnt pick flowers for th em. In the olden days, people would splash water at each other with buckets of water. They would tease each other and eat special provender like, Montloneyaybaw (meansround snack floating on water). Montloneyaybaw is a floating strain dough ball, which had been boiled. In the center, it has a piece of jaggery. It is served with coconut shreds. Just to shake up fun, the Burmese people who made this dough would put chili sooner of jaggery. People would never get angry at each other for it is Burmese New Year and getting wet is a conventionalism thing at Thingyan.Now a days, as the culture developed, people use water guns and water hoses to make others wet. Young people would stain 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 also be bands playing or dancers dancing on the stages at the back.Even though the culture developed, the traditional practices are still the same. People still throw water to weaken away the bad deeds they did in the previous year. But most of the new-fashioned people threw water for fun. They think this is the time of year to converge all your friends and go around getting wet. But some young people still follows the real tradition of Thingyan.