{"id":333,"date":"2015-06-12T08:55:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2015-09-23T00:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:08:57","slug":"april-poi-sang-long-festival-mae-hong-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"April  Poi Sang Long Festival @ Mae Hong Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poi Sang Long Festival @ Mae Hong Son<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"th-festblock1\">\n<h3>This festival is an ordination ceremony according to ThaiYai\u2019s beliefs. They believe that it will gain more the result of the merit than the ordinary ordination. The details of the festival are as following<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_F3_JcJofE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n(1) The first day is called \u201cSang Long receiving day\u201d. The hostess will bring the boys to the tonsure ceremony in the morning but not shave the eyebrows. After that they will get Sang Long dress. Then the boys will be called \u201cSang Long\u201d which the hostess will lead them to various temples and their relative\u2019s house in order to receive the percepts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/717.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-391\" src=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/717-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"7(17)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(2) The second day is called \u201cKrua Lu parade day\u201d. There will be Sang Long parade with offering given as alms from WatMuay along the roads. There will be many people joining the parade. Sang Long boy will be carried on someone\u2019s neck who is called \u201cmentor\u201d or\u201d Ta Pae sang Long\u201d. There will be golden umbrella or \u201cTi Kam\u201d in Myanmar style to protect the sunlight<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/15683_47538.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-392\" src=\"http:\/\/ifreedom.wwwss16.a2hosted.com\/travelthaiculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/15683_47538-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"15683_47538\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(3) The third day is called \u201cKam Sang\u201d which is the ordination day. Sang Long will parade to the temple. At every temple in Mae Hong Son<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poi Sang Long Festival @ Mae Hong Son This festival is an ordination ceremony according to ThaiYai\u2019s beliefs. They believe that it will gain more the result of the merit than the ordinary ordination. The details of the festival are as following (1) The first day is called \u201cSang Long receiving day\u201d. The hostess will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-festival-and-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laofree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}