Burmese New Year & Water Party or Festival, Thingyan, Songkran

Thingyan is the Burmese New Year Water Festival and usually falls around mid-April (the Burmese month of Tagu). It is celebrated over a period of four to five days culminating in the new year. The dates of the festival are observed as the most important public holiday throughout Burma and are part of the summer holidays at the end of the school year. Water-throwing or dousing one another from any shape or form of vessel or device that delivers water is the distinguishing feature of this festival and may be done on the first four days of the festival.
Thingyan is a time when uposatha observance days, similar to the Christian sabbath, are held. Alms and offerings are laid before monks in their monasteries and offerings of a green coconut with its stalk intact encircled by bunches of green bananas (nga pyaw pwè oun pwè) and sprigs of Tha byay or jambul (Syzygium cumini) before the Buddha images over which scented water is poured in a ceremonial washing from the head down. In ancient times Burmese kings had a hairwashing ceremony with clear pristine water from Gaungsay Kyun (lit. Headwash Island), a small rocky outcrop of an island in the Gulf of Martaban near Mawlamyaing.[3]
By nightfall, the real fun begins with music, song and dance, merrymaking
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thingyan
Oiriginal Videos (Special THanks):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbMFGPMyuJE&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZUnSg-3IKY
BG Music: Based on "Thingyan Moe" converted to trance by me Zuet (hsunaing).
Thanks for watching.
(Please comment...& response, I don't mind)

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• Burmese New Year
• Water Festival
• Water Party
• Thingyan
• Myanmar
• Songkran
• Trance
• Party
• Trance Party

[hsunaing]

Please comment & response video. I don't mind. You are welcome. THanks

[robertlatt]

this is how it should be, be modernized people!

[Trucjon]

we lost our true purpose. shame.