21/03/2025
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#เชิญร่วมเป็นเจ้าภาพบวชสามเณร ภาคฤดูร้อน ประจำปี 2568 ณ วัดเวฬุวัน อำเภอสารภี จังหวัดเชียงใหม่ วันที่ 31 มีนาคม -1 เมษายน 2568.
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The Poy Sang Long Festival
The Poy Sang Long is a three-day celebration of Buddhist novice
ordination which usually takes place in late March or early April of
every year in the Thailand’s most north-western province of Mae Hong
Sorn.
The festival is the custom and tradition of the Shans or Tai Yai an
ethnic Thai tribe who migrated from northern Burma and then
inhabited most of Mae Hong Sorn. The Tai Yais have a strong devotion
to Buddhism, and to follow their age-old tradition the young boys
between the age of 7 and 14 will be ordained as novices for a period
to learn the Buddhist doctrinces and to gain merit for their
parents. It is believed that the tradition is probably to follow in
the footsteps of Prince Rahula, the first Buddhist novice who was
the Buddha’s own son. The young prince gave up his worldly life to
follow his father’s spiritual teachings.
The festival is rich in colour and display making it a most exciting
event that draws residents of the entire province to take part.
Prior to the arrival of the three-day festival, the boys have their
heads shaved and are then bathed and anointed with special waters.
They are dressed up in jewelled finery and their faces are expertly
made up. These boys are known as the “Jewel Princes” or “Look Kaew”
in Thai.
In the early morning of the first day, the celebration begins with a
procession around the town. Accompanying the procession are flutes,
lutes, fiddles, drums and cymbals. In the procession, each boy is
accompanied by three attendants ; one to carry him, another to
shelter him from the sun with a tall gold umbrella, and the third to
guard the precious jewels. The Boys are led to visit relatives and
friends and then join the communion lunch. After the feast,
relatives and the elders tie white threads around the wrists of the
boys to protect them from evil spirits. Thus ends the first day of
the event.
On the second day, the same procession again takes place. This time,
the procession includes offerings for the Buddha, other necessities
for monks and a horse symbolising the vehicle of the spirit of the
city pillar. In the evening, after having dinner, there is the rite
of calling “spirit” or “Kwan” in Thai and a verbal recitation to
prepare the boys for the actual ordination in the following day.
The last day begins with the procession of the boys to the temple
for ordination. At the temple, the boys ask permission to be
ordained from the senior monks. Once accepted, the boys then take
vows, change the princely attires to yellow robes and become full
novices. The greatest event then ends here.
The Poy Sang Long Festival attracts a large number of Thai tourists
and has now become popular among foreign tourists as well.
