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Myanmar
Festivals
Tawthalin
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Myanmar
Festivals,
regatta
festival,
pagoda
festivals, thazaungdine, taungbyone,
thingyan,
water
festival, taung gyi
fire balloon
festival
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Festival Myanmar Tawthalin |
Tawthalin
Myanmar Festival
is the sixth month on
Myanmar calendar. (August-September). It is
a hot month, hot enough to kill small
prawns.
The surfaces of
water are like mats, free of waves. So it
has been a tradition to hold regatta
festivals since the times of ancient Myanmar
kings.
It was graced by the king himself aboard
golden Pyigyimon Barge, adorned by figures
of fifty kings on each side, as a symbol of
a hundred kings owing allegiance to the
monarch.
It was not just pageantry but an occasion
for demonstrating the naval prowess of the
Tatmadaw of ancient Myanmar kings.
The tradition
was nearly dying out until the government
revived it with traditional regatta
festivals held on Kandawgyi Lake.
The Text is by Myat Min Hlaing, Illustration from Wa Thone
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Myanmar
Festivals
Tawthalin
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Myanmar
Festivals,
regatta
festival,
pagoda
festivals, thazaungdine, taungbyone,
thingyan,,
water
festival, taung gyi
fire balloon
festival.
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