Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thailand. Show all posts

May 5 – Coronation Day in Thailand

Posted on May 5, 2020


This national holiday involves time off work and school for many every year, even though coronations themselves are very rare. One happened last year, however, when  Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn ascended to the throne as king. The three-day ritual / celebration included a procession, audiences with important citizens and foreign leaders, and of course the actual crowning ceremony.

It's lucky that the ceremony took place - after months of preparation and 31 million dollars spent! - in 2019 rather than 2020. I doubt that it would have been able to occur this year, given the global pandemic.

Enjoy a few pics of last year's festivities:










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November 25 - Vajiravudh Day in Thailand

Posted on November 25, 2019

Today is the anniversary of the 1925 death of Thailand's King Vajiravudh. Thailand actually has a lot of these memorial days for various members of royalty - and also celebrates anniversaries of royals' births and coronations. I counted at least 20 such public holidays and national observances!

This is Thailand's current royal family:

King Bhumibol Adulyadej, seated center, and his family members, from left: Princess Somsavali, Princess Ubolratana, Princess Chulabhorn, Princess Siribhachudabhorn, Royal Consort Princess Srirasm, Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, Princess Sirindhorn; after addressing the crowd from a balcony of the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall on his 85th birthday in 2012 in Bangkok. Photo: Wason Wanichakorn / Associated Press









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September 28 - Flag Day in Thailand

Posted on September 28, 2019

There was a national flag in Thailand for a long time. Most of them were red, and several of them included a chakra, or a picture of an elephant, or both.





There was this particular flag - the current one - in Thailand for years and years. It was adopted on this date in 1917.



What there hasn't been until recently was a holiday celebrating the flag. In time for the flag's 100th birthday, the holiday began in 2017.


The Thai flag, like so many other flags in the world, has three colors, red, white, and blue. But it isn't considered a tricolor flag by the dictionary definitions I've consulted of the word tricolor, because the latter is always a triband flag, with three parallel stripes (bands) of different colors (either horizontal, like Russia's flag, or vertical, like France's flag). 

Above, Russia's flag.
Below, France's flag.

Thailand's flag has five stripes; yet, Thais call it Trairanga, which means "Tricolor Flag"!

The colors are supposed to stand for nation-religion-king, with red representing the land and the people, white representing religions (I guess all of them), and blue representing the monarchy. 

Thais have a long history, rich traditions, and a strong cultural identity.
Yet Thailand is a modern nation, and its capital, Bangkok, has lots
of skyscrapers. 









 Teachers Day in Taiwan




National Good Neighbor Day


(4th Saturday in September)



(Last Saturday in September)

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