Muang Sam Mok Tradition
Muang Sam Mok which we called “Mae Hong Son” came from the ravine
city state and surrounded with complicated hill paralleled with
Thanon Thong Chai Range
and Daen: ao Range, causing of foggy covered throughout the year,
especially in rainy season densely with soggy, gentle foggy in
winter and smoke screen from forest burning in summer.
Provincial tradition will be arranged annually with a fair of
government agencies, private companies and various organizations
disseminated the products of each agency and the amusement provided
there.
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Poi Sang Long (Buad Luk Kaew)
Annually tradition between March and May.
This tradition is the highlight of over all Mae Hong Son tradition
and it is Thai Yai transcript tradition. Male descendants will enter
the priesthood as novice during school semester closing. The folks
believe that the ordination of novice or Luk Kaew is more merit than
21 year old ordination.
Beautiful dressing when finished shaved hair off and decorated with
chain, bracelet, ring and using cloth wrapped on the head like
Myanmar style, but long socks on, wear Salong, put the powder on the
face and lips.
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Bua Tong Festival
Each year in November, the hillsides of Amphoe Khum Yuam and Amphoe
Mae Sariang are filled with a host of golden Bua Tong or wild
sunflower blooms. As gay as a daisy and almost as a sunflower, the
Bua Tong only blossoms about 30 days. This enough reason for Mae
Hong Son provincial to hold the Bua Tong Blossom Festival at Amphoe
Khun Yuam.
At Amphoe Khum Yuam's Doi Mae U-Kho, the blossoms appear profusely.
Finally, the golden blooms become part of the scene. Some
specialists have classified these Bua Tong as weed and because of
this, they may be cleared to make way for cash crops. Fortunately a
group of researchers have discovered the flower's insect-repellent
properties. And perhaps that is why the Bua Tong, a symbol of Mae
Hong Son, is still preserved on the hillsides.
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Loi Krathong Festival
Loi Krathong Festival is held on the full moon night in the month of
November every year. Villagers make "Krathongs" to float in rivers.
At Nong Chong Kham, various entertainment and a contest of large
krathongs are held near the central pond. Lamps and candles are lit
all around the area. Moreover, at Wat Phra That Doi Kong Mu, there
is a ceremony of releasing candle-lit krathongs bound with balloons
to the sky (known as "Loi Krathong Sawan").
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Poi Sang Long Procession
This is in fact the celebration of novice ordination which the Thai
Yai tribe people hold
to be a highly meritorious occasion. Traditionally, the
candidate-novice, his head cleanly shaven and wrapped with
head-cloth in the Burmese style, will don a prince-like garment and
put on valuable jewels and gems, and ride a horse or be carried over
the shoulders of a man to the city shrine. Then he will visit abbots
of various monasteries to beg for forgiveness. On the ordination
eve, a procession of offerings and other necessary personal
belongings will be paraded through the town streets and then placed
at the monastery where the ordination will take place the next day.
It is usually held during March-May before the Buddhist Rain Retreat
period.
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