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Home » Sights » Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts prosperous economy in Thailand
Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts prosperous economy in Thailand
Posted in Sights, Superstition, The Culture, festivals
Tags: Oxen, Royal Plowing Ceremony
(Chaiwat Subprasom / Shutterstock.com)
The Royal Plowing Ceremony took place again yesterday and predicts a prosperous economy for 2022. The two sacred oxen chose water, grass and beans on Sanam Luang, indicating an abundance of water and food. They also drank liquor, which portends more robust international trade and a booming economy.
This year, the Lord of the Plow chose a sarong, meaning abundant water resources with a risk of flood damage in low-lying farmlands.
After the field was sown, under the watchful eye of the Thai royal couple, bystanders stormed the once-only field to collect rice grains. Because they bring luck.
The traditional ceremony has been performed in Thailand since the Sukhothai period, some 700 years ago, to mark the start of the rice season and is closely followed by farmers. The traditional rite also takes place in other Southeast Asian countries.
(Wasu Watcharadachaphong / Shutterstock.com)
The ceremony consists of a few parts. For example, an official (Lord of the Plough) chooses/draws from 3
Phanung (ผ้านุ่ง, phaa-ôeng). They differ in length: short = an abundance of rain, medium = moderate rainfall and long = little rain.
Then it is the turn of the special buffaloes, who choose from various food and drinks: rice, corn, beans, sesame seeds, drinks, water and hay. Rice or maize = good rice and fruit harvest. Beans and sesame seeds = good fruit and other harvest. Water and hay = lots of rain and a good harvest. And booze = good trade.
In fact, the forecast can practically only be good. 🙂
Oh and a sarong (โสร่ง, sà-ròng) is not exactly the same as a phanoeng. I once saw the difference somewhere in a book using pictures and a description. Off the top of my head: the phanoeng is higher, up to or over the shoulder, a sarong is not. But I should look that up. At the newspaper they probably thought that the white noses do not see or know the difference and that they are more likely to know the term sarong than phanoeng/phanung. Oh well, you shouldn't make it too difficult for white noses, right? After all, Thailand is incomprehensible…
I won't start on the fact that this ceremony was forgotten for a very long time and only saw the light again in the last century (60s).
Try this ceremony in the Netherlands, probably closer to the truth than the predictions of our cabinet and the CPB ...
Those buffaloes never predict a bad economy.
That would be a one-way slaughterhouse for them.
a truth as a cow
The fact that they also like strong drinks does not bode well for Thailand in the coming year.
More alcohol addicts.
Jan Beute.