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Thadingyut festival (october)

we have great fun during festivals. People go to the monasteries, pagodas and some interesting places during festivals. Many festivals are celebrated all over Burma. Thadingyut festival (October) This following video, updated on October 2022, (2023 October Related Video) Following link was updated today 2023 October for more information about Thadingyut, https://youtu.be/94J2t8JG6lw?si=3U2ZM0fESVYqYqTt (Show on Youtube if you click the link.) (2022 October Related Youtube Video) https://youtu.be/8lNkPQmz218?si=28Gn0UCgM4O4Cnyf This month, 12th of the October is the full moon day of Thadingyut. Thadingyut , the seventh month of the Burmese calendar, marks the end of the lent. There are three days of lights festival, namely the day before the full moon, the full moon day and the day after .These are days of music, dances and fun. Streets, houses and public buildings are illuminated with coloured electric bulbs. Durin...

A Visit To The Shwedagon Pagoda

(Still crowded, and crowded at the pagoda platform whether it rained heavily or under the bad weather.) People visited to the Shwedagon Pagoda frequently. Paying respect at the foot of the pagoda is one of the ways of Buddhist life. People crowded at the Pagoda platform every time we visited. Practice meditation, offering flowers, candles, incenses or colorful things, or walking on the pagoda platform mostly as keeping the Shwedagon Pagoda at the right side, or praying, etc that Buddhists usually do. (Watering stupa, and mythical symbol, at the birthday corner.) When I was young, I went to the Shwedagon pagoda with my friends the time final examination finished. We prayed, and wished for what we wanted at the foot of the pagoda. Surely we were wishing to pass the examination with distinction, or with credit. (We wish everything we want at the foot of the pagoda.) Today, I was going to ...

Seasonal Flower in Rainy Season

(Wa-zou-ban flowers in rainy season. Very rare to see Purple colored Wahso in Rangoon.) Especially flowering in the rainy season, Wa-zou-ban (herbaceous plants) are sold every corner of the market. People love to buy them, and offered at their household shrines. Its color was mixed with white and orange. It looks like a bell, and hung beautifully by its pattern. Bearing purple blossoms was a rare to see in Rangoon, we can call it ‘country Wa-zou-ban’. (Wa-zou-bans are popular and have best attraction in the market place.) Wa-zou-bans are easy to plant in the garden. Its stem can be grown naturally in the soil. We can plant again and again their stems, and it will grow, and increase in the next rainy season, or sometimes it quickly blossoms if it gets water enough. (Easy to grow in the garden.)

A Visit to Moe-Kaung Pagoda Festival

(From the 21st December to the 31st December 2018, Moe-Kaung Pagoda Festival was held.) Moe-Kaung pagoda at Yankin township, located in the northern part of Rangoon, where the pagoda festival was held in every December. As my grandma (Khin Myo Chit) wrote, ‘Every pagoda has an annual festival.’, this month is a month of Moe-Kaung pagoda festival. The festival stayed for a week, sometimes two weeks, so people could look forward to the days of enjoyment. (The place where the Moe-Kaung pagoda stands today. Seen behind the busy road, and trees.) The locality is a busy road with daily traffic and people around. There was a large estate of Moe-Kaung monastery near the Moe-Kaung Pagoda. Monks and lay devotees always care and do maintenance for the Pagoda. The season festival on every December always takes place in the Moe-Kaung pagoda ground. So, there were trade fairs, and colourful goods from all over the country were seen in the place at the festival. (Dried-fish.) Moe-K...

The Act of Respectful Deed

In our Burmese custom, during the Thadingyut festival, young people brought foods, or cakes or gifts, and they offered in front of their teachers or adults, and paid respect. My grandpa was a teacher, and he received gifts, and respect from his students during the season. However he accepted gifts from his students, he preferred having being paid respect at not any gifts. His students did not satisfy what their teacher said. They wanted to bring cakes or foods, etc while they were coming to pay respect. ( Yes! I agreed! Their cakes were delicious! I did not understand why grandpa did not want to accept gifts .) (Young writers, and poets came and paid respect to my grandparents during Thadingyut season.) ...

Burmese Days and Flowers (I)

(Illustration - Maung Yit) Each year during the water festival which welcomes the Burmese New Year which falls on the 2 nd week of April every year, we make the Thingyan Pot or we called it ‘A Tar Pot’. (Thingyan Pot also known as 'A Tar Pot.) It is a pot of flowers representing the seven-day born to welcome Tha- Gyar-Min, king of the celestials who comes and visits the human abode during Thingyan festival. Thingyan Pot is culturally Burmese and Buddhist in nature. (Tha-Gyar-Min King of the celestials. - drawing by Maung Yit.) Burmese Buddhists show their loving kindness to all the human being by offering the ‘Seven-Day-Born’ flowers or leaves at the foot of the pagodas. (We believe there is no enemy among the ‘what-day-born’. All is given equally our loving kindness.) At the foot of the Buddha image, we recite: ‘I take refuge in Buddha; I take refuge in His Teachings, I take refuge in t...

Retold Version and Original Novel

(When I was a young reader, my grandparents bought many retold versions of popular classic for us to practice our reading.) I was familiar with the retold series or simplified texts which provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure and a wide variety of enjoyable reading material for all learners of English. Those retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles, as well as specially written stories, published at five or six levels such as from the beginner to the Upper. About 300 or 600 basic words for the beginner and about 2500 to 3000 words for the Upper or Advanced. When I was a young reader, my grandparents bought many retold versions of popular classic for us to practice our reading. They also explained some difficult words in the story. So, we understood the story very easily. My grandparents said those series would one day turn our desire to read the original novels and improve our reading skill. I did not understand at that...

The Night She Rest In Peace; Longing for a Burmese Poet – Kyi Aye

(Kyi Aye (13th December 1929 – 2016)) (A photo of Kyi Aye (left), and the sketch of her (right), the artist – unknown) A very rare woman poet in Burma, Kyi Aye, an old friend of my grandparents, once lived together at Aye-Yeik-Tha in the year around 1950. She was at that time, a Rangoon University student attending a bachelor of arts. She later studied at University of Medicine, and became a doctor. My grandma and she were closed friends. Grandma admired her because of her strong ambition in the education, and her beautiful literary works and her own successful household life with 8 children (including a pair of twins.). Grandma and she discussed about literature for a long time until she left Burma (1970?). Kyi Aye had been already writing poems and romance since her high school. Her romantic poems were famous for not only her writings, but also for the artistic feelings themselves. While I was reading her poems in my younger days, I thought Omar Khayyam was reborn as our poet, Kyi ...

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