To welcome the New Year every Southeast Asian country have festivals with traditional cultural identity of peoples. In mid-April dates calendar, people follow Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asian countries like flashes continent held back water festival Tet holiday according to Buddhist calendar. Elements derived from rice agriculture beliefs and religious characteristics, currently in Southeast Asia has four countries are Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia water festival held to celebrate the new year. The article introduces the origin of birth and some typical traditional rituals, characteristic of the Water Festival was held to welcome the new year in this country. Since ancient times, the country is particularly important for states Family with rice agriculture. From here the water festival appearance in these countries aimed at better weather, pray, prosperous country, prosperous and happy life. Not only that, the Water Festival also expressed the sacredness of religious and fun nature of the festivities; express their aspirations for a prosperous life and peace, a bright future and happiness. Water Festival is also New Year's Eve ritual in some Southeast Asian countries. In each country, splashing Assembly has brought the appearance of expression and indigenous breath: Bun Pi May Festival of Laos (*) - the country of elephants, colorful festivals Songkran- tradition on earth Thailand water, splashing Assembly Thing bearing deep Yan Myanmar's ethnic origin or continue splashing Myanmar new year in Khmer new year the people of Cambodia. Festival of each country have different names, but they are organized along a timeline with special cultural activities and rituals had several similarities with each other. 1. Water Festival origin concept There are many explanations for the origin of the water festival in Southeast Asia, but can understand the birth of the beliefs associated with the festival of national agriculture rice cultivation, and it also stems from the legend with bold colors religion. According to the concept of world agriculture, ancient water festival to mourners to pray for rain and dry season. New Year continue splashing perhaps that is part of the traditional ritual to pray for abundant rain water in the agricultural country in Southeast Asia. Festival of nature mysticism and spiritual, all forms of activity during the festival are said to pray for good weather and production workers, prayed the tears brought freshness to things, prosperity and happiness for man. According to the experience of world agriculture, after the holidays are usually the first rain season makes the grass back green, arid plains cracked after extreme weather periods become fertile ... Thus only about two weeks after water throwing festival farmers could embark on long-term production, the busiest of the year. From the meaning, the important role that water festival gradually is considered the biggest festival of the year, begins a new season and a new year begins in the agricultural Southeast Asian countries [4] Besides, according to the calendar of the ancient Indians, April is the time of spring, when the trees bud, becomes green, the animals began to wake up dormant finds food ... at the same time, according to astrology, the ancient astronomers were based on the movement of the sun it's time to select the opening period of the day is longer than night, the prosperous period, opening moments of the rainy season. That is the sign of a new life and this time the default is seen as the start of the new year. In the process of cultural exchange, by the impact, deeply influenced by Indian culture, Southeast Asian countries have been timed according to the Buddhist Calendar, they inherited, acquired Tet Festival of India and see this as an appropriate time to start the new year festival with a lot of luck, good. So that Songkran- ethnic name of Thailand on New Year according to Sanskrit is "The time when the sun shifts from region to region Zodiac Taurus in the Universe" and the traditional New Year in Myanmar Thing Yan is understood is "the movement of the sun from bow to bow Song as Aries". [3] There is also the notion that the source festivals with religious elements. In Thailand, the new year began with the day's Birthday (b) of the Buddha and official holidays was opened with Buddha bathing ceremony in the temple [2]. The biggest festival in this country often referred to as Germany celebrate Christmas Day Jesus' birth in the West ... There are many reasons for the introduction of the water festival of Tet holiday Southeast Asian countries. From the conception of the origins and the important role of the holidays, we can somewhat understand why it is called the New Year festivities whether this call is not accurate indeed by base calendar not negative, the festival at the end of December and early January, but in fact the time of the festival takes place on lunar May. Water Festival, the largest festival in the country, has been considered n
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