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[3] [4] The holiday is a new year's festival, celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar, which corresponds to a date in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. [1] In 2024, the new year commenced on 10 February and celebrations ran until the 12th of the same month. It also commenced the Year of the Male Wood Dragon.
Holiday Date Number of days Remarks New Year's Day: 1 January 1 day - Independence Day: 4 January 1 day Marks independence from British Empire in 1948. Chinese New Year : Varies 1 day Union Day: 12 February 1 day Anniversary of the Panglong Agreement in 1947. Peasants' Day: 2 March 1 day Commemorates the contribution of agriculture and farming ...
1 January – New Year's Day; 4 January – Independence Day; 12 February – Union Day; 2 March – Peasants' Day; 24 March – Full Moon Day of Tabaung; 27 March – Armed Forces Day; 13 April – Myanmar New Year; 1 May – Labour Day; 22 May – Full Moon Day of Kason; 16 June – Eid al-Adha; 19 July – Martyrs' Day; 20 July – Full Moon ...
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. [1] [2]
The Tibetan New Year celebration is Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་, Wylie: lo-gsar), which falls either in the months of February or March in the Gregorian calendar. During the Tibetan Empire period, the Tibetan calendar was a seasonally based calendar before the Buddha Shakyamuni 's Kalachakra calendar system, a blend of both the Indian ...
Here's what you you need to know about important dates in 2024: Leap day in February. This year, expect a Feb. 29 and move all the holidays in your mental calendar back a day because it's a leap year.
Maung Maung writes from inside Myanmar about how he left his profession, his life, everything to escape the claws of the junta after they ousted Aung San Suu Kyi
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