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Burmese traditional festivals are based on the traditional Burmese calendar and dates are largely determined by the moon's phase. [ citation needed ] Burmese culture is most evident in villages where local festivals are held throughout the year, the most important being the pagoda festival .
Thadingyut festival at least lasts for three days: the day before the full moon day, the full moon day (when Buddha descends from heaven) and the day after the full moon day. Buddha's mother, Maya , died seven days after the Buddha was born and then she was reborn in the Trayastrimsa Heaven as a male deva .
The Tazaungdaing Festival (Burmese: တန်ဆောင်တိုင်ပွဲတော်, also known as the Festival of Lights and spelt Tazaungdine Festival), held on the full moon day of Tazaungmon, the eighth month of the Burmese calendar, is celebrated as a national holiday in Myanmar and marks the end of the rainy season.
Thingyan is observed as public holidays throughout Myanmar, 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.
[6] [7] [9] In the evening, the festival comes alive with the exciting main hot-air balloon competition. These balloons are decorated with hundreds of candles and fireworks attached at the bottom are lighted once they fly into the sky. [3] [6] Thousands of people celebrating the Hot Air Balloon Festival held in Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar
Contestants ran a stiletto race and swirled hula hoops at a park in Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday in the Drag Olympics as a highlight of the Yangon Pride festival. The attendance of an ...
Manaw Festival (Burmese: မနောပွဲ, Jinghpaw: Manau Poi) is an annual traditional dance festival celebrated by Kachin people. Mostly held at Myitkyina, Kachin State also known as မနောမြေ( Manaw Land ) in Myanmar and also celebrated by Kachin people around the world. Manaw is the largest festival in Myitkyina, held at ...
Temporary bazaar and amusement rides of Shwesandaw Pagoda festival in Pyay, Myanmar. Pagoda festivals (Burmese: ဘုရားပွဲ; paya pwe) are regular festivals found throughout Myanmar that commemorate major religious events in pagoda's history, including the founding of a pagoda and the crowning of the pagoda's hti (umbrella). [1]