Sources: The Bangkok Post and Thailand public holidays. This year's Royal Ploughing Ceremony, the occasion for a public holiday in Thailand, was held earlier today. His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, presided over the Brahman ceremony, designed to give an auspicious beginning to the new planting season. During this ceremony, carried live on national television, the sacred oxen chose the medium length clothes, indicating that there would be average rain in the upcoming season, and also chose to eat rice grains, corns and grass, which supposedly means that food production will be plentiful this crop year, while water would be abundant.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Thailand's Royal Ploughing Ceremony Predicts a Bountiful Harvest
Sources: The Bangkok Post and Thailand public holidays. This year's Royal Ploughing Ceremony, the occasion for a public holiday in Thailand, was held earlier today. His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, presided over the Brahman ceremony, designed to give an auspicious beginning to the new planting season. During this ceremony, carried live on national television, the sacred oxen chose the medium length clothes, indicating that there would be average rain in the upcoming season, and also chose to eat rice grains, corns and grass, which supposedly means that food production will be plentiful this crop year, while water would be abundant.
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