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Poy Sang Long

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The Poy Sang Long Festival happens every year between March 20 and mid-April in numerous sanctuaries in North Thailand. It is in reality more a function than a celebration. In Chiang Mai there are two sanctuaries where this function happens. The celebration is basically Shan or Tai Yai and signifies "appointing the dearest children". Young men from 7 to 14 years of age go to the sanctuary to be appointed as amateurs.

They will take in the fundamentals of Buddhist instructing and the self-restraint expected of a priest. Subsequent to being appointed they will remain in the religious community for a timeframe that can differ from seven days to numerous months or more. More often than not, an expansive gathering of young men are appointed in the meantime.

Poy Sang Long is an extremely vivid and fascinating service. For the span of the occasion the sanctuary grounds are clamoring with action amid daytime and at night. Family and companions of the young men are there and numerous guests. There are nourishment slows down and there is music and diversion. They young men are conveyed the sanctuary on the shoulders of their more established male relatives.

In Chiang Mai the function keeps going three days and takes after pretty much underneath plan. In Mae Hong Son area the function now and then takes 4 or 5 days. On the principal day, "Rup San Long" day, the young men are the focal point of family devouring and blessing giving before they are escorted to the sanctuary to have their eyebrows and heads shaved and be customarily washed down and blessed by showering in sacrosanct lustral water.

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